Are we losing behaviour based skills to monetary rewards? 31/01/2011
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, Employment, Engagement, Management, Recruitment.Tags: employees, engagement
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There is no doubt that many recruiters join the industry because of the financial rewards, but in my opinion the emphasis on rewarding only hard financial targets is flawed. For one thing, it can encourage and lead to a purely monetary focus at the expense of other qualitative skills including team work, managing change, problem solving and customer focus; which to me are fundamental to the operation and success of a business.
Office jargon – a big turn off 25/03/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in Management.Tags: jargon, Management, meetings
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What jargon or office speak really bugs you? Quite a lot it seems! We recently undertook a survey on management jargon through our Bulletpoint Briefing newsletter which goes out to over 4000 businesses and we found that almost a third of people used jargon and ‘management speak’ to liven up dull meetings! Over a third thought that jargon made them look more credible. However the overwhelming majority thought that jargon was pretentious to the point of being comical with one respondent comparing his manager to David Brent! (more…)
