5 Easy Steps to Implement Key Results Areas

The degree of difficulty in implementing KRAs will depend on the culture of your organization. If you have a culture that is team oriented, results driven, and passionate about improvement then implementation will be relatively easy. If you have a culture that is individually oriented, agenda driven, and have employees that resist change then implementation will be more difficult.

Either way, the steps will remain the same…you will just have to work harder. In the wrong culture, KRAs will be viewed upon as a control tool used by management. This is not the case, and this should be communicated as so. KRAs will help improve communication between leaders and their team members, establish clear boundaries for each team member, and break down silos.  

Managing Outsourced Teams

Managing a team bears little resemblance to what is in the employee handbook. That means that managers need to be proactive and handle their teams themselves without waiting for their company to tell them what to do. Teams today are no longer the people who sit across and around your desk. They can be flexi work professionals, outsourced teams or virtual teams. And managing them is a different ball game altogether.

New leaders should assess and align their teams in their first 90 days. Because that's really when it's most important to lay the foundation for superior performance in teams — remote or otherwise.

But there a few commonly shared ideas that work for managers with outsourced and remote teams:

How Talent Management Drives Performance

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.”

Talent management is the strategy that drives the specific events that people experience in the workplace. It encompasses seven things:

Key skills for Owner-Managers: To Delegate

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Delegating is one of those essential skills that many people need. As the business grows, owner-managers can get into a "delegation crunch." Business owners through to managers all need to be able to delegate well otherwise they will find themselves swamped with too much to do and not able to focus on the tasks that require their specific abilities.