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If you want to improve your business overall, you need to look beyond the performance of your employees, and toward your managers as well. While making sure your main workforce is content and running smoothly is important, it’s equally necessary to ensure your managers are in tip top condition. When one of your managers isn’t […]

Every successful manager or leader knows that goal-setting for your employees is an important component of success. Setting employee targets and goals not only increases productivity, but also helps to motivate your team and boosts their confidence and happiness when these goals are achieved. But there’s the catch: you need to set the right employee targets. If your

Gamification is a pretty simple concept at the outset. Human beings are, by and large, competitive. We like going head to head with one another, and we enjoy striving to best our own personal targets even more so. Games motivate us, and winning lights up the reward centre of our brains, dousing our grey matter

Right now there are as many as four generations in any modern workplace: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials and Generation Z. While our genetic make-up looks much the same, the world each generation has grown up in is spectacularly different. From the way we commute to the way we take our lunches, over the last

When was the last time you paid close attention to the structure of internal communications within your business? After a 2018 Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. study found that over 60% of companies around today have nothing in the way of long-term internal communications strategies, we felt a little stunned at Note It. Our goal

There’s a figure doing the rounds on the internet from a recent survey by IBM, which states that 72% of employees don’t understand the company strategy. This, it barely needs to be said, isn’t ideal for business. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that employees who spend their days in the dark are less

Everybody loves positive feedback. Praise is catnip to the human brain; we crave it, and while we always hunger for more, even the slightest hint of it can put a smile on our faces for the next few hours. And as a leader, positive feedback is a joy to give—seeing the effect it can have

Collaborating with others effectively isn’t always easy. Some of the greatest leaders from history have come unstuck due to hiccups in communication and teamwork. For many businesses, learning how to collaborate at work means the difference between sinking and swimming—and the stats are shocking: a recent study by Fierce Inc found that a whopping 86%

We often imagine feedback as a tool to improve performance and inspire personal growth. But delivered in the wrong way, feedback can have harmful outcomes. Neuroscience research, for example, has shown that providing negative performance appraisal feedback causes actual physical pain to both the employee and the manager. The reason is simple, even though negative

The moment you put a deadline on a dream, it becomes a goal. Helping staff transition from vague dreams to solid performance goals can do wonders for your business, particularly when you hit that sweet spot between company-objective and individual-objective. But when you’re running an organisation with hundreds of different dreams and aspirations, hearing those