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One of the most frustrating signs of team disengagement can be a lack of communication. A team member who was once open and informative suddenly becomes more withdrawn. It often shows up at team meetings where they have begun to give simple yes and no responses to your questions and started sitting at the far end of […]

If you have a team member who has suddenly started to whine and complain it could be a sign that they have disengaged from your business and are moving on to another one. In my experience, people will often start complaining as a pre-frame to help them justify their decision to look elsewhere and to move […]

If you are starting to experience pushback or resistance to any requests from a team member it can be one of the less obvious signs of disengagement. There can be a plethora of reasons why people don’t like to do some extra tasks in the workplace, and they don’t always indicate disengagement. Let’s consider some of the […]

We all experience apathy at some stage, some of us more often than others. When a team member has become more apathetic than they have been in the past we need to ask ourselves, is it circumstantial or has it now become part of their daily routine? The easy one to solve is “circumstantial”. The general malaise […]

One of the first signs of disengagement is when the team member fails to take ownership of an issue or work-related tasks. If this lack of ownership is a recent occurrence and has not been of concern in the past it may be a sign that they are considering moving. Are they doing this across all tasks or […]

When we consider the expense of losing a team member, we often see it as a black and white event where they have either quit and left the business or they have been exited by the employer. We often fail to take into consideration the disengagement cost and by that, I mean the expense associated […]

Monday night we saw the final episode of 63 Up and it was probably the hardest of the episodes to try and identify the profile types of the remaining four participants.  It was, however, a great example of how our learned skills, our environment and our innate talent all combine to guide us through life. […]

Following on from the blog I wrote last week we look at another group of the participants of the popular “Up” series, 63 Up being shown on SBS at 7:30 Monday evenings. There were four identities in the group on Monday, Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Peter Davis and Lynne Johnson. Today I will be focussing […]