Friday, 29 January 2010

Performance Measurement - Recognition and Reward









Job Performance Management System






For the measurement & reward of an employees performance against company targets and expectations.



Without quality Employees a Company will cease to function. A Manager is there to facilitate the performance of their team; a Director is there to lead the direction of the Company including the team.



An Employer or Manager needs to be able to understand how their team can most effectively operate.



This would involve understanding the dynamics of the individuals within the team – their strengths, weaknesses and where growth and performance improvement can be best achieved. How to effective communicate collectively and individually, plus what to shield and what to share.



A system such as this will create pride and passion in the company, a desire to work hard and achieve. The system should to be fair and objective, avoiding the risk of subjectivity. Targets need to be stretching but achievable; Rewards to be an incentive not valueless.







Step one - create specific and comprehensive job descriptions for each role.




Step two – create a matrix/Template which can measure performance against the following areas:




Performance targets




Coaching and self improvement




Customer service standards and feedback




Company ethics awareness





Company Behaviours





Health and Safety standards





Team development




Pride and passion, growing the Company reputation.





Qualify the effectiveness of each JD and PMS with Managers and company directors.




Using feedback from Employees, Managers and Company guidelines create a suitable reward package for excellent performance I.E. pay rise/bonus/shares/discounts/holiday entitlement etc. Equally a suitable reward for standard performance and a development programme for under performance.






Niki Chalkley – Professional Development consultant.

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Life Coaching workshop 6th March Topsham





LIFE COACHING WORKSHOP


The Globe Hotel Topsham

6th March 2010

9.30 - 5.30

Lunch and refreshments provided

Please call for more information and to reserve your place

Price £65.00


01392 874561
niki@nikichalkley.com

Sunday, 3 January 2010

Happy New Year




Brand New Year


Brand New Decade

Brand New You

2010 - The year to make all of those changes you have been planning!!

BT Business roundtable lunch December 2009


Back in December, I was invited to a lunch hosted by BT and the British Chamber of Commerce at the BT centre London.
This was following on from my newspaper appearance in November, relating to SEO (search engine optimisation). The objective was to establish how the large players in the web advertising world can make their services more accessible to smaller businesses.

I had the great fortune to sit next to Matt Brittin of Google - also there was Stephen Haines of Facebook,Cedric Chambaz from Microsoft, John Dunsmure British Chamber of Commerce , kevin Eyres from LinkedIn and quiet a few more!

An excellent lunch, thank you to Ivan Croxford and of course David Brown of lewis PR for organising the event.

Friday, 4 December 2009

Nature/Nurture









Pure genius = at least 10,000 hours of practice!





The Beatles had been together for 7 years before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!





Bill Gates had spent an estimated 10,000 hours of computer programming, bordering on obsession before he was able to take an opportunity which came his way.






Mozart had been composing for 10 years before becoming famous. Some of his early works were considered ‘normal’.







Exceptional people become so through passion and tenacity, not mediocrity.







The world's greatest achievers are sometimes considered to have been ‘born with it’; the old nature vs. nurture debate – I say it is a combination of aptitude and opportunity. A practical thinking person will be able to work through a situation, turn it into an opportunity and act upon that opportunity confidently. A Glass half full!








Further interesting reading:




Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - published by Penguin.

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Stress Busting thoughts






Stress-Busting thoughts!

Of course there is good stress and bad stress here - I am talking about the harmful and situational types!
We all need an element of stress to fire us up, to make us spark and sparkle. In fact some of my best decisions have been made when my ‘back is against the wall’.
For those of you who are already working with me you will understand the importance of intimately knowing your personal set of values, ‘your footprint’, and knowing how to work with your values and help them to help you.
Harmful stress is likely to have been building up over a period of time and has potentially caught you by surprise! Typically this is where you are having to act or comply with wishes of others, or shackled by a limiting self belief the outcome of which means you are having to contradict your core values.
If you feel this is where you are then I am advising you to talk to someone such as myself to uncover the issues, help you to see the wood for the trees and make structured and practical decisions.

Top 10 situational stress busting tips!!

1. Check your values, which one are you crossing?
2. Talk it through with your life coach, a friend, someone who respects you and whom you respect.
3. Write down your thoughts, the facts about the situation, remove the emotion and in doing so ask yourself what is the real issue here?
4. Make sure you are taking regular exercise, as well as allowing your brain to focus on different tasks such as fictional reading, Sudoku, crosswords – avoid becoming obsessed with the issue.
5. Ensure that you are topping up your ‘happiness banks’ by fulfilling your values regularly.
6. In times of no particular stress - Work out what relaxes you ‘taking a candle lit bath’ ‘having a long walk with the dog’ ‘watching a film’
7. Enjoy some quality times with Friends and Family.
8. Make sure you are taking that ‘me time’ you always promise yourself.
9. Break down the problem into it’s component parts and deal with each one separately and one at a time.
10. Diet – ensure that you are eating regularly and that your diet is balanced. Which means fruit, veg and protein! I will post a separate note about the importance of the types of fruit and veg and how to cook/eat them. Avoid alcohol, caffeine and nicotine especially late at night.