Accentuate the positive
By Sarah Cook and Steve Macaulay (May 2007 Issue)
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Are you managing in a gloomy atmosphere? If the answer is ‘yes’, you won’t be alone. A Work Foundation survey found 30 per cent of the UK’s working population felt negative or indifferent towards their work. That’s an awful lot of lethargy and negativity.
Managers can easily compound this bad feeling by their policies and actions. In business today, performance management, assessment centre activity and training and development interventions tend to focus on what is failing: identifying individual and collective areas for development and forming an action plan around the steps to take to improve these.
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