Open Salaries at Piscines Ideales
One thing I find interesting about the concept of open salaries is that, at first, people normally assume the concept is impossible, but when they consider it, they find it makes sense.
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Lessons From Tiger Woods
In 2009, Fortune magazine asked Tiger Woods, among others, for the ‘best advice I ever got’.
Nando’s — Happy People are the Key
Nando’s is a popular restaurant chain in the UK, specialising in spicy chicken. Some years ago they undertook research to find out what were the key factors that explained why sales at some of their restaurants grew faster than at others.
Getting Managers Out of the Way
Removing traditional managerial delegation structures can streamline communication and workflow.
The Future of Leadership: Humanity and Compassion
The June 2013 issue of Management Today includes an important paragraph, in a debate about "The Changing Face of the Leader"
Choose Your Manager — My Radio 4 Four Thought Broadcast
“49% of the UK working population would take a pay cut to have a different manager.”
Radio 4 Four Thought: Let People Choose Their Managers
Catch Henry on Radio 4's Four Thought talking about why people should choose their managers.
How Spiral Health Implemented The Happy Manifesto
Publishing the Happy Manifesto has led to a lot of organisations contacting Happy. Some call us in to help them improve their workplace and we love doing this. But there is an even bigger thrill when I get a letter from somebody we’ve not been involved with, who has taken the Manifesto and put the ideas into practice. So I’m delighted to copy the blog below, originally published on the Spiral Health site, about the work they are doing at an NHS site in Lancashire.
Revealed: The Most Important Management Behaviour
At our Happy Workplaces Conference last week we got to experience a Google manager induction, from Emma Rapaport. She explained that some years ago Google had discovered, from its exit interviews, that some people left the company at least partly because of their manager. Their response was to work out what made a great manager, in what became known as Project Oxygen.
Let Your People Choose Their Manager – Because it Works
I’ve written about it before. This is the simple suggestion that you should let people choose their managers. And the great thing is that when people do have the courage to try it, I almost always get positive feedback.
