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Direct HR and Organisational Development support to managers. Driving sustainable business through evidence-based mentoring and consulting.

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So, just what is HR?

HR – human resource management - is the system that sustains the status quo. It keeps the firm doing what is does at the productivity presently realised.

More in our 3rd edition: https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp

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Because Your People Matter: A Playbook for Managers, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (3rd ed.) by John Berry & Sue Berry.
ISBN: 9781803813554 from Amazon at https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp. Also Waterstones, Foyles and Book Repository. RRP £28 and £26.60 for Kindle/eBook. #businessbooks

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Motivation? It's what starts an employee & sets choice of effort; direction of effort; size of effort; and makes them stop and change.

For behaviour & performance outcomes, leader must influence motivation. Read how in our 3rd ed. https://t.co/h4xY497y0Z. #Management #leadership

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Co-director on hiring developers: “Don’t give me someone who can code. Give me someone who can think. I can teach them to code.”

Imperative hire for the right personal profile, foundation competencies & behaviours.

See 3rd ed.: https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp. #hiring #training #coding

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Engagement (with the job) is super-motivation. It's on the right of the commitment-motivation-engagement continuum and stems from feedback on performance.

When employees engage with their job, a host of beneficial outcomes follow. See how in our 3rd ed. https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp

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Your firm enters a contract with its customers. That must become instructions to your employees.

Those instructions define customer acceptance. And customer delight.

Here's a diagram. Read more in our 3rd ed. https://t.co/h4xY497y0Z.
#management #leadership #entrepreneurship

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Your firm enters a contract with its customers. That must become instructions to your employees.

Those instructions define customer acceptance. And customer delight.

Here's a diagram. Read more in our 3rd ed. https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp.
#management #leadership #entrepreneurship

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It’s tough for managers, entrepreneurs, & leaders to hold their firm in their minds, and to then look for possible improvements. The only approach is modelling. We introduce many model types in our 3rd edition: https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp. #management #leaders #entrepreneurs #change

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Managers can change everything about their firm: jobs, work environment, own management, technologies used, & competencies of people.

Always something to be improved. Check contents & preface of our 3rd edition - https://t.co/TCKS70JwRO #leadership #entrepreneurship #management

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So, what's a manager?

A manager is the person who accepts responsibility for the success of a venture.

They'll be entrepreneurial. And embrace leadership. But #responsibility differentiates.

More in our 3rd ed.: https://t.co/h4xY497y0Z. #CMI #businessbooks #leadershipbooks

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To allow understanding and action, managers, entrepreneurs and leaders must draw back from the detail and view their firm as a system. Every firm's IPO model is unique. See our 3rd edition, Chapter 1. https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp. #businessbooks #entrepreneurship #management

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THE most important management model - the feedforward, links employee personal characteristics with personal performance. Essential that managers, entrepreneurs and leaders know where to intervene. Check our Chapter 5, 3rd ed. at https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp #businessbooks #management

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Who's this super-being called a manager? Sure, there's an entrepreneur. But without a manager, the firm would be a good idea going nowhere. The manager takes responsibility for success. Read Chapter 1 and free audiobook at https://t.co/LE8348xSNX. #management #entrepreneur

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Positivism. A basic idea. Manager senses, analyses.
Determines appropriate intervention. Acts. Then monitors and evaluates outcomes. And repeat. Learn about positivism & management feedback model in our 3rd ed. https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp #management #leadership #entrepreneurship

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People management is dyadic - there are two players - you and your employee. For this and other key concepts of management see our 3rd edition - https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp

5 chapters FREE as audiobooks on YouTube - https://t.co/9M0Zkybbcy #management #leadership #entrepreneurship

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(3/3) We discuss the quality of management - and how to get the management of people right - and other big management issues in our 3rd edition - https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp #management #business #entrepreneurship #leadership

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(2/3) Do it wrong... and that's why we in the UK are well down the World league table for quality of management in our firms. See this week's Economist for the data. https://t.co/Jw62TVqYZc #management #business #entrepreneurship

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(1/3) About the UK's poor management... You, the manager, influence your employee's motivation though leadership and the setting up of the right conditions for work. Do it right, and you get performance and positive business outcomes. #management #business #entrepreneurship

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But, an alternative reality is possible. Read our 3rd ed. about how to manage the balance between technology function and human competence. https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp. #ChatGPT #ai

US experts warn AI likely to kill off jobs – and widen wealth inequality https://t.co/WipjnRkjhn

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We hear regularly that AI and robots will steal jobs - but an alternative future is within each manager's control. Read our 3rd edition for more - https://t.co/HQYxa6ZWJp. #technology #ai #jobs #chatgpt #robots #productivity #automation