by Kathy Martin | Nov 1, 2019 | Business Improvement, Team Management
Recent research has found New Zealander’s rank work-life balance at number two in what they want from an employer. Yet the perception is work-life balance is not a high priority for many New Zealand businesses. Here’s a short article from a recent...
by Kathy Martin | Aug 20, 2019 | Team Management
Small businesses, by their nature, are going to be intimate. This means it is crucial to manage your team well. Working closely together often means you’ll have to share the same goals and the same frustrations … sometimes even the same work space....
by Kathy Martin | Feb 5, 2019 | Team Management
When a problem occurs in your business the first thing you’ll usually try to solve the problem. In fact, that’s such an automatic response that you often don’t sit back and think, or act, systemically. You rush in and stick a band aid on the problem – anxious to...
by Kathy Martin | Jan 24, 2019 | Team Management
It’s not unusual to find that businesses don’t have regular team meetings. Some don’t even meet at all. They consider their business too small or too busy. Another common excuse is that it’s “too hard” to get everyone together in...
by Kathy Martin | Oct 13, 2018 | Team Management
A vital ingredient of any successful business is team morale. It becomes of paramount importance if your business is going through difficult times, and we don’t just mean “hard times”. Difficult times come in many shapes and sizes. The difficulty...
by Kathy Martin | Oct 12, 2018 | Team Management
Does it drive you crazy when your employees can’t follow instructions? You ask them to do one thing and they do something else. What you say (or think you’ve said) gets misinterpreted and often the job turns out no where near like you expected, or wanted. Most...
