Tools:
Guide to tackling poor workplace behaviour
Are you fed up with bad behaviour in the office? In this guide we look at how to spot the early signs that your employees behaviour is on the slide, what the causes might be, and how some simple processes and assistance can address the problem. Click the button below to get your FREE guide.
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Guide to tackling absenteeism in the workplace
Employees turning up late? Leaving early? Often absent? Or just – here in body but not in mind? In this guide we look at poor time keeping and lack of engagement at work. We offer 7 practical steps to address absenteeism. Click the button below to get your FREE guide.
Guide to addressing team conflict in the workplace
Team members not talking to each other? People being rude to their colleagues? In this guide we look at personality clashes and team tensions in the workplace. We offer 6 steps to help you understand how to resolve conflict. Click on the button below to get your FREE guide.
Guide to addressing team conflict
Guide to reducing task avoidance in the workplace
People not doing what they say they’ll do? In this guide we look at where an employee is given a job and they don’t do it; such as missing a deadline, procrastinating or excuses or even proactive avoidance. We offer 8 steps to follow to help understand and address this situation. Click on the button below to get your FREE guide.
Guide to reducing task avoidance
Learn how to be a great assessor
Do you have managers helping you with assessing and need to give them a workbook to prepare them? Check out my video and article Why not have a read of my good practice guide to assessing job candidates? Find out more here, or click the button below to get your FREE guide!
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Conduct the perfect interview
My 5 step guide contains all you need to prepare for and run a great interview including sample interview questions, scoring guide, how to make your decision and how to give feedback. Read more about how to be a STAR interviewer,or click the button below to get the guide for FREE!
Conduct the perfect interview with this free guide
Ask the right questions with my competency interview guide
This ready-to-go set of interview questions will give you a good measure of a candidate applying for the role of team manager. You can have this at no charge as a gift from me! Use these face-to-face or over the phone, alongside any other experience and skills questions you have. This guide covers the basic team manager competencies of motivation and attitude, team working, managing others, planning and organising, and communication. It also contains some handy hints on how to approach and mark the interview to help you make the right decision about who is the best person for your business. Click below to access this free guide.
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Performance development goal setting template
Need to set some personal goals? Need to set your team members some goals? I’m sure you’ve all heard of SMART goals – here is your Goal Setting Template to get you started. Read more about it here: 12 tips to effective goal-setting, or click below to download this template.
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Events:
- Rebecca is speaking about strengths-based recruitment at the Recruitment Marketing Seminar, the Heath, Runcorn, on October 8th 2019. Its aimed primarily at senior HR Personnel and Business Owners who are keen to ensure that they are fully up-to-speed with both the challenges and the opportunities of recruiting employees at all levels, post-Brexit. For more information click here.
- Rebecca is keynote speaker at the University of Chester, Psychology Careers Conference, 20th November 2019. This is a closed event for University of Chester students.
- Rebecca is speaking at Headspace in Manchester on 21st November 2019 about: ‘Rethinking the retention challenge: how a strengths-based approach significantly improves recruitment, development and engagement of high performing teams’. More details on how to register will be published nearer the date.
Book reviews:
With lots of self-help and management books out there it can be difficult to spot the useful books, those with real, genuine insights that offer something different. With our book reviews we aim to offer you an opinion to help you decide to read it or not.
Published & press articles:
- ‘Strengths’ in Recruiting: How to find the missing piece of the puzzle when you want to recruit a star performer by Rebecca Stevens, Association of Business Psychologists 21 January 2014
One of the common challenges in recruitment is finding someone with the right motivation who is going to be really engaged and a high performer in the role. You need to know not only that they can do the job, but also that they want to, and will actually meet or even exceed expectations.
Trying to pin this down is difficult with traditional competency-based approaches in recruitment.
To understand the difference a psychometric measure of ‘strengths’ can bring, it is important to be clear about existing approaches and the benefits they have. This article doesn’t argue for a replacement of the existing competency-based approaches; rather it argues for adding a ‘strengths’ measure to the recruitment equation.
- The science of recruitment by Rebecca Stevens, Management in Practice; Campden Publishing, December 2014
Recruitment is a tricky business. How can you be sure someone who performs well in an interview will perform well in a job? How can you be sure they have all the right skills and abilities? How can you be sure they’ll fit into the culture of your practice and work well with the rest of your team?
The truth is, you can’t be sure. Not completely. But by using one or more of the numerous psychometric tests on the market, you can make a more informed decision.
- How to find the missing piece of the puzzle when you want to recruit a star performer by Rebecca Stevens, The non-significant Journal of Business & Consumer Psychology March 2013
One of the common challenges in recruitment is finding someone with the right attitude. You need to know, not only they can do the job, but also do they want to, will they be engaged, have a positive attitude and really exceed expectations? Trying to pin this down is always difficult in recruitment. This paper argues for the introduction of a measure of ‘strengths’, as adding a key piece of the jigsaw puzzle in measuring whether someone will be really engaged and motivated in the job. Download the article here.
- The art of delegation by Rebecca Stevens and Rachael Lewis, Management in Practice; Campden Publishing March 2013
Why do some managers succeed more than others? How do they deliver what appears to be an impossible workload and yet have a work/life balance? How do they generate staff engagement and loyalty and continue to achieve more with fewer resources? Welcome to the art of delegation.
- Managing specialist professionals by Rebecca Stevens, Management in Practice; Campden Publishing Dec 2012
Managing a team which includes highly-qualified employees such as doctors can be a particular challenge for practice managers. This article shares 10 tips on how to manage specialist professionals well. This article introduces Myers-Briggs Type Indicator theory and how that looks in teams.
- What’s in a type? It’s more about trying on different hats than putting people in box by Rebecca Stevens, Management in Practice; Campden Publishing Aug 2012
