How to make sure good employees stay

How to make sure good employees stay

To a greater or lesser extent, businesses spend money advertising a vacancy on job boards or through recruitment agencies, invest valuable time sifting through shortlists (which can also be long-lists, if the sifting process isn’t up to scratch) and more time still sitting across the table from a parade of candidates at interview.

But once the successful candidate has accepted the job, been given a pass to get into the building, allocated a computer and an email address, and given an induction there’s a danger that we simply take their presence for granted and, to all intents and purposes, forget about them.

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Why do teams underperform?

Why do teams underperform?

One of the issues facing business leaders – especially in these uncertain times – is what causes teams to underperform and what they can do to tackle the problem.

There are some things within your business that are, by and large, entirely reliable and which you can depend on to run at a level that is at least acceptable, if not better: utilities, network infrastructure and telephony, to give three easy examples, all run as you expect them to most of the time.

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