build a solid culture

How One to One meetings build a solid culture of engaged employees

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How often do you engage with your direct-reports? I don’t mean a list of updates at a weekly meeting, or a drive-by debrief when something is falling apart.  What I mean is:  How often do you sit and talk about what is motivating them? what’s wearing them down?  How often do you tell them whatContinue Reading

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offsite leadership

7 Benefits of a Leadership Offsite

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We’ve seen periods where our clients were big on over-the-top boondoggle getaways for the leadership team and times when they stopped all workshops and retreats for austerity reasons. That’s two ends of a spectrum and neither end is ideal for most organizations.   Instead, somewhere in the middle – a getaway from the day-to-day challenges ofContinue Reading

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employee retention strategies

Our five favourite employee retention strategies

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Do you want to keep your best employees? You might think money, vacation time, health benefits are things that keep people working hard. In a few cases, that might be true, but more often than not, those financial benefits rank low on why we stay in a job. Think back over your career, the jobsContinue Reading

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onboarding new employees

Six ideas for successfully onboarding new employees

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We’re lucky people here at Padraig. We get to work closely with some of the most amazing leaders and leadership teams across North America (and, indeed a bit of Europe and Asia too). Not only do we get to help these extraordinary leaders become even better at what they do, accomplish even greater things andContinue Reading

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