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Managing Underperformance
September 25^th, 2026 in Blog
Managing Underperformance: How to identify performance concerns early, support improvement and avoid common management mistakes. Every business relies on employees performing to the required standard. When performance starts to slip, the effects can quickly be felt across the organisation. Deadlines are missed, colleagues pick up additional work, managers spend increasing amounts of time firefighting and customers may begin to notice the…
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Workplace Loneliness is Real
June 23^rd, 2022 in Blog
I was writing about ‘loneliness’ back in 2018 – before Covid and mass remote working was amongst us and before the global energy crisis and inflation started pressing in on people’s lives. Despite a lot of parliamentary gesturing and the setting up of the government’s Tackling Loneliness Network, the Office for National Statistics has revealed that even after the lifting of social restrictions, more people are now…
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Peak Performance is Possible – workshop
May 19^th, 2011 in Build and Develop your Team, HR Help for Small and Family Businesses
Would you like to make staff appraisals more effective for your business? Take a peak at Peak Performance is Possible - our new management workshop for busy managers.
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Managing Underperformance