People Management Archives - The Focused Manager

The Real Deal about Employee Engagement

16 Oct

God bless Senior Executives for receiving employee feedback and wanting to act on the issue of Employee Engagement. However, some fifteen plus years into the ‘knowledge’ of the Employee Engagement gap and we seem to have made little to no...
Read more »

Promoting a Change-Accepting Culture

23 Jan

In my career, I have lost count of the number of program or systems changes that have either failed or been delayed as a result of resistance to the changes. There is something fundamentally missing in the change management literature;...
Read more »

So What is ‘People Management’?

15 Dec

People Management topics have almost entirely dominated my leadership efforts in the past year. I have read about it, taught it, and wrote about it. This made the incident in the middle of my presentation two weeks ago all the...
Read more »

Managers Under Siege

12 Oct

I recently observed behaviour by a set of managers that took me by surprise. I am very used to seeing managers under stress, even extreme stress, but, what I observed exceeded any of my definitions of ‘normal’. I know the...
Read more »

Are You For Your People?

15 Sep

In their book The Leader Within (1) the authors suggest that employees make a subconscious but intentional decision to either be a giver or a taker. A giver is someone that gives the organization of their knowledge, experience, passion, creativity...
Read more »