A great way to generate feedback for your team members

[caption id="attachment_2038" align="alignright" width="200"] Remember to get feedback from team members![/caption] You are a great manager.  You know that meeting regularly one-on-one with each member of your team is important. Many managers tell me they struggle to come up with[...]

Published: April 22, 2014
By: Darryl Stewart
How to motivate anyone – even a lost cause

Most people have someone working with them or for them that is a “lost cause”.  This is someone who everyone thinks will never be motivated to change their poor behaviour. There is a basic fundamental human desire for feedback on[...]

Published: April 15, 2014
By: Darryl Stewart
Top reasons why delegation fails and we end up doing it ourselves

Being a manager is tough.  It is even tougher if you can’t get delegation working effectively for you. My top reasons why delegation fails: We delegate something to someone that is far outside their skills and interests. We micro manage[...]

Published: April 8, 2014
By: Darryl Stewart
What to say when one of your staff does not feel like working

[caption id="attachment_2014" align="alignright" width="250"] The infamous Night-of phone call.[/caption] I was standing with a group of parents at one of my kid’s events recently. The woman next to me took a call on her cell phone. I could only hear her[...]

Published: April 1, 2014
By: Darryl Stewart
5 Second Test

Ask the best, most engaging, managers how they excel and you will get a different story every time.  They all do things differently.  They come in all shapes, sizes, colours, educational backgrounds and with all kinds of styles and different[...]

Published: March 25, 2014
By: Darryl Stewart

IBEX Payroll extends our profound respect and immeasurable gratitude to all the ancestors and keepers of the land on whose traditional territories our work takes place. We acknowledge that we are on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional gathering place of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene people and the traditional homeland of the Métis people. This land is sacred, historical, and significant. 

Every time we acknowledge this truth, we have an invitation and an opportunity to reflect on the wrongs of the past, what we do in the present, and what we can do to continually honour the people whose lands and water we benefit from today. 

This statement only acts as a first step in honouring the land we reside on and its peoples, and must be paired with education, understanding and informed action.