Ask any employer how to build a dedicated and reliable team, and you're likely to get a lot of different answers. Neil Templar, operations manager for RWA, outlines the factors that he believes are crucial to effective team management.
Leadership
Engaging Leadership to Improve Productivity
CEO of RWA, Tom Wood, outlines why engaging leadership is so important in the workplace, and showcases how RWA engages its employees to deliver positive business results.
Increasing productivity: Be smarter than your smart phone
Tom Wood, provides some handy tips on how to maximise productivity and maintain a healthy work / life balance.
Mental Health at Work
We all have ‘mental health’ – sometimes we’re on top of the world, sometimes life is a drudge.
Most of the time, we carry on regardless and things tend to smooth themselves out. We talk to friends, family, and sometimes colleagues, and set the world to rights again. But what happens when things spiral out of our control and it all becomes too much?
Staff Supervision - Are You Doing It Right?
A 'how to' guide to explain why staff supervision is so important, and what represents 'best practice' in terms of monitoring staff, gathering evidence, and keeping records.
Culture – Are you massaging the ooze?
Strong business planning and forethought is vital to ensuring that a truly defined customer centric culture is established and maintained.
Training, that’s a doddle, just give them a text book...
I have no issue with any individual who wishes to better themselves and take a path of formal study, but it should be relevant to their day to day activities and provide a direct benefit to them and you as the employer (after all, you may well be paying for it), rather than ticking any sort of box.
Your people want careers
It probably would not be unusual to assume that young adults are more entrepreneurial or prefer to move from one job to another, but a recent survey of 1,200 millennials (adults aged 18 to 34) conducted by EY and EIG has shown that people in this age range are more risk averse than we might think.
It's good to talk
It is becoming more and more common for businesses to be faced with a team scattered around the country, or even the world. Team Leaders and Managers can often be faced with many problems thrown up by the physical distance between the members.
Amy Foster, operations manager at RWA Solutions, explores the challenges that working effectively with a remote team can present.