Dear Reader

Welcome to today’s Labour Bulletin.

As the last quarter of the year looms, your employees (and you) could be heading for that dreaded end-of-year slump. It’s up to you to keep your employees motivated and working at their absolute best. It’s not always an easy task!

Luckily, we’ve got a few teamwork tips that will work to get employees out of the dip. Implement these today to shake up your team…

3 Top teamwork tips

Tip#1: Organise a daily 10-minute meeting

Get the team together to discuss any communication problems which it may have experienced recently. Talk about the need for a daily 10-minute meeting to plan the work. Agree on the time, place and agenda for the meeting.

Tip#2: Perform team tasks

Ask each team member to identify and perform at least one ’team task’ which will help other members, or the team as a whole, to achieve its goals.

Tip#3: Guidelines to strengthen team spirit, co-operation and performance

Here is a handy set of guidelines for team leaders and team members which everyone can follow to strengthen team spirit, co-operation and performance:

• Give recognition for good work.
• Listen to team ideas for improving work methods.
• Assist the team with difficult tasks.
• Be impartial and unbiased.
• Develop and coach team members.
• Empower team members to take initiative.
• Keep the team informed on company matters.

Let me know if you try them and how they work for you. You can also tell me about any great teamwork or motivation tips that have worked for you…and I’ll share them with our readers. You can contact me on sarahjane@fsp.co.za 

Before you go I’ve got a question for you…

Must you keep your employee’s job open if he goes to jail?

This is a question the Netcare board will have to consider if its CEO is found guilty of the charges of selling body parts.

Now, your employee probably won’t be guilty of quite such a dramatic crime, but the question remains the same. Do you have to keep his job for him...even if he’s in jail awaiting trial?

Find out the answer here...it might surprise you.

Until next time…

Sarah-Jane Bosch
Managing Editor

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