Bold Enterprises presents Working Matters Karl Edwards

When acceptable performance becomes a problem, are we jumping too quickly to blame and punishment? Could there be aspects of your corporate structure, culture, or your own leadership methods that might be setting the stage for poor performance?

Fact: People are growing, developing, changing beings. Are you afraid of losing your best workers if you promote them? Fighting their development will only result in losing them to a competitor.

Are our talent search methods serving us well? Could it be that our standardized job descriptions, computerized key word searches, and the use of unformatted text-only resumes are eliminating valuable candidates before we even have a chance to meet them?

What lens do you use when addressing employee problems? Employees are an expense to minimize or an asset to maximize? The lens you choose will have a radical impact on how you deal with four common employee problems.

Both our physical desktop and our computer desktop can get cluttered quickly. One of the issues in whether you can find what you need. The other issue is whether the cluttered desktops are making it difficult to focus and be productive.

Choosing to communicate via phone, text, email, or social network is not only a matter of personal preference, but must take into account the recipients preferences as well. How do you sort through who responds best to a text message and who responds best a personal call?