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fe3’s top ten tips get the most out of an interim manager assignment.
Interim managers are increasingly popular as a short to medium term solution for organisations which need to shore up their staff during change or the absence of existing managers. Here’s fe3’s top ten tips for organisations to help them get the most out of an interim assignment.
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fe3’s Top ten tips for developing an in-house newsletter
Communication in organisations is vital – to celebrate success, to motivate, to praise, to raise issues, to learn from failure. Internal newsletters are a traditional method of communicating with employees, explaining direction and propounding management messages. However, many do not acknowledge the true interests of the employee audience. In order to communicate, internal newsletters have to be interesting enough to be read in the first place - something managers often seem to forget. Below are fe3’s tips to ensure your newsletters are essential reading.
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Ticking the box - employee surveys
Senior managers often consider employee surveys a good idea. They demonstrate a willingness to listen to employees, create two-way communication, encourage problem solving on a local basis. But this is if they're done well. If they're done badly, they can create cynicism, raise issues which are never solved and cause resentment and worse, destroy trust between managers and employees. We give our ten top tips to ensure employee surveys are a useful exercise - not just a box-ticking exercise for everyone.
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Ten things to think about when making an acquisiton
Manohar Suresh looks at the key things to think about - from a list of thousands! - when making an acquisition.
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Ten top tips for pulling together an employee incentive programme
Incentives are supposed to reward employees who perform well. So how is it that this seemingly simple task can cause such resentment among staff, even those who are awarded the incentive?
fe3 consulting suggests some tips to help you develop the perfect incentive programme to reward employee effort without the headaches..
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Ten tips for reducing employee turnover
We've heard for many years that your people are your greatest asset. Their accumulated knowledge of customers, products and the way your company works is hugely valuable and difficult to replace quickly – if it is possible to replace this knowledge at all.
A recent CIPD survey predicts that 2005 will have low unemployment and a tight labour market, and notes that one of the key concerns for 85% of organisations in 2004 was the inability to recruit suitably experienced and qualified candidates – so the issue is not going to go away.
But how welcoming are you as an organisation? And if people are deserting you, how do you stem the flow? fe3 consulting has put together Ten Top Tips for helping you identify why people are leaving and actions to make you a more attractive employer.
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