I always find January in my gym difficult. It’s packed with people with good intentions that have made New Year resolutions. However, generally, by mid February the status-quo has been restored and I can find exercise machines, mats and weights easily available. I guess the same goes for other resolutions such as stopping smoking or saving more money.

Team resolutions
Resolutions that do seem to succeed are those made where the results are also monitored by other people and one can be held to account. I was thinking last night if it would be more sensible to make business team resolutions that would improve team effectiveness?
Some I might consider:

• Arriving on time for meetings
• Replying to e-mail within 24 hours
• Providing more support to other team members
• Holding more regular meetings
• keeping meetings to time

What would be your ideas?
Happy New Year to all

In a survey by the Centre for Educational Leadership
at the University of Manchester delegates at the latest CIPD Conference were asked their opinions on the importance of
various aspects of business performance. They were then asked which
aspects their organisations were currently delivering effectively. The
gaps between expectation and delivery were marked.

• Effective
  HR business partnering was identified by 65 per cent as important to
  achieve, yet only 33 per cent said they had it in place
  
• Harnessing the
  ideas of employees was cited as a priority for 69 per cent, but only 35
  per cent said they already did it well
  
• Performance management processes
  were seen as important by 62 per cent, but just 21 per cent were
  confident with what they had in place.