Category: People Performance
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Why Your Organization Needs Employee Development Plans
Posted on 05.23.2019
What Is An Employee Development Plan? As an employer, it is crucial to keep a forward-thinking approach to your business and focus on strategic growth and expansion. Employees are an essential part of any organization’s growth strategy – if you want your business or non-profit to continue to grow, it is necessary to invest resources … Continue reading
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Encouraging Teamwork at Work
Posted on 01.30.2019
Great teamwork is a catalyst for success in any organization. But it doesn’t always come easily, and needs to be fostered and encouraged in order to thrive and grow People Performance. Below are four tips for creating a culture of teamwork in your organization. It Starts at the Top – it’s difficult to foster a … Continue reading
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Three Steps to Boost Employee Performance Reviews
Posted on 09.18.2018
Performance reviews are often seen as a required activity for both managers and employees, yet not one that either look forward to. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Here are three steps your organization can take to make the performance review process more beneficial for all: Less Formal, More Informal – Typically, employee performance … Continue reading
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People Make or Break the Company
Posted on 04.23.2018
We’ve all heard it before: “A company’s most important asset is its people.” Because of this sentiment, it’s a tricky balancing act for a growing business to add more people to the team while simultaneously preserving their culture. In the past year, I’ve worked with many clients in this exact same position, but we’ve partnered … Continue reading
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Commitment to Raising the Bar on People Performance
Posted on 04.16.2018
At Achilles Group we engage to make a difference through our unique Fractional HR business model, our expertise, teamwork and professionally human approach. And we take a lot of pride in our commitment to provide encouragement for leaders at every opportunity. Now before this gets labeled as a soft, indulgent or a touchy-feely approach it … Continue reading
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People Performance Drives Profitability
Posted on 04.09.2018
At Achilles Group we work hard to impact People Performance as a catalyst for profitability. We have worked with thousands of leaders and seen the good, the bad and at times the ugly impact of poor leadership. And we are driven to influence every leader we encounter to learn what it takes to become an … Continue reading
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Peanuts, Cracker Jacks®, and People Performance
Posted on 12.04.2017
When you think about winning teams in professional baseball, the New York Yankees are one of the first teams that come to mind. But have you ever thought about why that is? Maybe lots of great players? Well, while they’ve certainly had many amazing players throughout the years, they’ve also been led by fantastic coaches, … Continue reading
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Success Story: Houston Zoo
Posted on 11.13.2017
“We reached out to the Achilles Group to assist us when we found ourselves down one person on the HR team with the absence of a Vice President of Human Resources. Because we were in the middle of working on several major projects and did not have enough time or manpower to take care of … Continue reading
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Feedback is a Gift
Posted on 11.03.2017
If you were about to take a hike through the wilderness, would you take a compass with you in case you got lost? Of course! And much like a compass helps you find your path in the wilderness, employee feedback helps you find your path in business. Feedback is a gift in business. It may … Continue reading
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Humility Is the Key to Rewarding Feedback
Posted on 11.03.2017
Seeking feedback from your employees requires both humility and recognizing your own room for growth, your motives are also equally as important. For example, do you really want to be great at what you do, or do you want to be seen as great? That distinction is important because it requires the willingness to give … Continue reading
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How to Receive Feedback with Grace
Posted on 11.03.2017
Inviting feedback can be hard enough, but receiving it can be even harder. Any sort of criticism (even constructive) tends to bring out all of our insecurities and defensiveness, but truly great leaders resist this impulse and readily accept feedback with grace and an open mind. It can touch on sensitive areas, but it’s important … Continue reading
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Clear, Timely, Focused, Respectful, Feedback
Posted on 11.03.2017
“But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good/ Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” The lyrics to that old blues song perfectly illustrate the importance of communicating your feedback in a clear, timely, focused and respectful manner. The goal is not to tear down your employees but to give them the gift … Continue reading
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Why Employee Feedback is Essential to Business Growth
Posted on 07.28.2017
While rapid business growth is always an exciting prospect, it’s not without its challenges. In the case of South Hampton Resources, they were a smaller company with a family-style business whose growth quickly exceeded their management capacity. They had many tenured employees, so as the management personnel transformed it took some getting used to. However, … Continue reading
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Develop and Encourage Profitability
Posted on 07.19.2017
Have you ever heard someone refer to their job as “just a support role”, or “an administrative position”? Our focus as Leaders is often fixated on the sales, technical and production roles and we unintentionally overlook the needs and potential of those we assign to “support roles”. The reality is that administrative and supportive jobs … Continue reading
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Avoid the business growing pains by focusing on People Performance!
Posted on 07.07.2017
People Performance: Growing from a family-style business to a larger company with a more remote management style was challenging, so we were referred to Achilles Group for their expertise. They put us at ease right from the start by being so personable, and their flexible approach worked perfectly for us. They also have great ideas … Continue reading
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People Performance the Achilles Way
Posted on 07.03.2017
At its core Leadership is all about communication and the ability to encourage growth and accountability through clear expectations, feedback, goals and incentives. At Achilles Group, we believe that People Performance is the engine that drives any enterprise and that effective Leadership practices provide the tool kit to keep that engine running at peak efficiency. … Continue reading
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Become a Leader Worth Following
Posted on 04.03.2017
Strategy Alignment is the area of our Fractional HR model that is focused on aligning your people with your strategic organizational initiatives. In order for this to become a reality, ongoing leadership development must be a priority. To help you in this effort, we would like to invite you and the leaders of your organization … Continue reading
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The Company’s Most Valuable Asset – Its People!
Posted on 03.30.2017
An Employee Reflection on the Crest Management Success Story This past month, we shared a Success Story from one of our client’s – Crest Management. We focused on the work that we did to help improve their People Performance through job descriptions. Now that you’ve heard the client’s perspective, we’d like to share an Employees … Continue reading
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Effective Relationships = Effective Leaders
Posted on 03.20.2017
In order to be an effective leader, you must cultivate effective relationships within your sphere of influence. One of the fundamentals of being promoted into a supervisory or management role, is to accept ownership and accountability for the performance of those who report to you. If within your team, some of the individuals are not … Continue reading
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A Client’s Perspective on People Performance
Posted on 03.15.2017
We don’t just want you to take our word on the importance of People Performance at your organization, but read below a Success Story from our client, Crest Management. We were so busy growing our business that we didn’t take time to stop and figure out what we needed in regards to investing in and inspiring our … Continue reading
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