Hints and tips for Supervisors on addressing performance concerns

Addressing performance concerns

Here’s some hints and tips for Supervisors on addressing performance concerns. We know its never easy to address concerns you may have with one of your team’s performance, but it is an important and necessary aspect of management, and one that can bring huge benefits if tackled correctly. Early intervention The longer a performance issue […]

Help, our pregnant employee is underperforming?

Help, our pregnant employee is underperforming

There’s an urban myth that you cannot tackle a pregnant employee’s underperformance. It’s not true but you need to do so in a fair manner. Firstly, sit down with the pregnant employee and discuss your concerns in a tactful manner. Questions should be framed in terms of showing empathy and support for the employee and […]

Do we know the difference between an excuse and an explanation?

Excuses or explanation

Here’s a theory we’d like to explore with you, is there a difference between an excuse and an explanation? We think there is. We see this a lot in human resource management. Management ask questions of staff during informal and formal situations and sometimes we report that we’ve heard an explanation and other times we […]

Managing employee capability in your Early Years’ setting

Here’s the transcript from our recent webinar on capability… “Let’s talk capability.  First of all, what do I mean by capability?  Well, it’s the opposite of misconduct, they are two sides of the same coin, and capability is to do with ‘can’t do’ and misconduct is ‘won’t do.’ Now I’m going to talk to you about […]