In tough economic conditions, every business goes through a review of operations and for many of them, they will have to let some people go. I have recently gone through this with my new business and there are some salient lessons that can be learned in downsizing.
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26Nov
Tags: Firing, Redundancy, Termination
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09Nov
Now that i have moved on from the REA Group, i am setting up a new business. In the process of doing this, we have decided that we will try our hardest to use new technologies to make the business run. The first decision we took was to get right of the old telephone system and to use skype alone.
The theory is simple. The business the we are setting up is global in focus and therefore we will need to be contacting people around the world on a regular basis. Everyone has a PC so this is not a problem and all we do is give each of them a head set and away we go. We are using Skype Business software that works like a dream. We now have 20 people working off it and there are no problems.
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06Nov
Yesterday i wrote some thoughts about the use of instant messenger in the work place and this stirred up strong debate, much of which is really around the trust we should place in our employees. Therefore following on from this i thought it would be good to explore just how much power we can gained from placing trust in people.
I have found that the more i trust people to get on with their jobs the better the work environment becomes and more importantly the more that gets done. Lets explore two extremes - first is a place with strong trust and the second is one without it.
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05Nov
The short answer is nothing! However i am hearing more and more about companies either banning or strong suggesting that employees dont use messenger and other similar applications. This got me to thinking - why?
For me, banning messenger is like banning the phone or email. I guess in days gone by bosses were banning email and the internet however imagine work life today without either of these.
The real issue is trust and understanding.
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