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In 2001 a study by Proudfoot Consulting revealed the cost of bad management, low employee morale and poorly trained staff to British business at 117 lost working days per year.
In 2002 the total lost days to absenteeism in the UK was 166 million
In 2003 the Stress and Health at Work (SHAW) study indicated that 1 in 5 of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful
In 2004 a survey indicated that around half a million individuals in the UK believed that they were experiencing work related stress at a level that was making them ill.
In 2005 the cost to UK plc in lost work days due to lack of engagement was estimated to be between £39-48 billion.
By now, you will see a growing trend of staff related problems affecting businesses in the UK that can no longer be ignored and if you don’t think you are being affected by it then please take 30 seconds of your time to complete our short task below…..
Go to a point within your office where you can see at least 5 members of staff.
Take a good long look at what they are doing, taking care not to let them see you watching over them.
Now run through our checklist below and see if any of your staff match any of the activities listed below:
- Shuffling papers/trying to look busy
- Chatting to another member of staff about something totally unrelated to work
- Staring at blank computer screen/desktop
- Looking at non work related web pages such as eBay, Hotmail, Online poker room!
- Not at their desk
- Have slouched or tired body language
- Have their hands placed on their heads or face
- On the phone on a non work related call
- Wandering around the office in an attempt to look busy
- Reading a newspaper/magazine
- Texting on their mobile phone
- Moaning to another member of staff
If you can tick one or more of the above and it is not within your company’s lunch break then you can consider yourself part of the millions of businesses affected by the growing problem in staff management.
Whether you are a business owner or a manger of a team, you are still affected.
If you own a business then you are all most certainly losing money by accepting an unproductive workforce.
If you manage a team then it is YOUR job to keep them motivated and working to their MAXIMUM potential. After all, that is why your position exists….to manage the staff within your team. If your team is under performing then that’s your responsibility and your position at risk.
So how can QI Team Building help my situation?
You company needs to address key areas that affect staff productivity.
Our company shows you how to address these areas. We can enable YOU to
- Increase morale and motivation
- Increase productivity
- Reduce absenteeism
- Improve efficiency
- Increase each member of staff’s clarity of role
- Reduce conflict
- Reduce stress levels with you and your staff
- Remove negative culture
- Increase training and career development
- Enhance your management skills to a level that puts you ahead of your competition.
It all starts with an event.
All our events are individually designed to address your specific business challenges/problems. Our events do not stop at the end of 2 days, with most forward looking clients we continue adding value and embedding the lessons learnt at follow up sessions back in your business making full use of our consulting, training and coaching expertise.
We have leading edge behavioural training and performance improvement skills and tools.
We do NOT just churn out the same psychometric tool every time.
Why an event?
An invigorating event bonds a team powerfully together and leaves a lasting improvement in the business.
There will be a BIG improvement in the level of communication back in the workplace.
The main goals of our team-building events are to improve productivity and motivation. Taking employees out of the office helps groups break down political and personal barriers, hierarchies, eliminate distractions, and have fun!
We create the space and the means for humans to naturally get on with each other and work more effectively together.
CRUCIALLY, though, we ensure our events address real work issues that are affecting the performance of your organisation. We work with your teams to get them to devise improvements that they take back to the workplace and implement. Our momentum sessions do what they say on the tin, they ensure that the benefits of your event payback in your business.
How can I take the first steps of improving my team?
You have now two choices that face you at this moment in time:
- See which of the events in this website grabs your attention and get in touch for a free consultation on how we can help you to achieve your goals.
- Ignore everything you’ve just read, disregard Team Building as an opportunity to grow your business and become part of the statistics for 2006 that show an increased level of poor staff management as has been the case for the last 5 years.
Whatever your decision…QI Team Building would like to wish you the very best of luck and thank you for taking the time to visit our website.