Can you change the future?


Part 1: Coaching and Mentoring


Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, makes the case for how you can change the future - at any time in your career.


He concludes that you do not have to wait until the last few years of your career to plan the legacy of professionalism you will leave for posterity. You can start right now - by coaching and mentoring people


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n a previous article (‘Don’t Ask Me - I Can’t Change Now’), I touched on how older staff can get actively involved in passing on a great legacy of turfcare professionalism to the younger generation.


These older staff might then start to enjoy the respect and admiration that may have been denied them in the past.


But hey, you do not have to wait until


you are old and grey - you can start right now.


Here are two ways you can get started right away: by coaching and by mentoring.


Coaching


Let’s start with coaching. This is a work activity that rates highly amongst turfcare professionals at all levels. It seems that


many of us really enjoy developing the skills of new and improving turfcare workers. In fact, many regard passing on skills and advice to ‘learners’ as one of the most fulfilling parts of their job, whether they are in a supervisory role or in an expert role.


No problem anticipated here then. Maybe you just need to let the boss know that you want to do some coaching or


Not seeing the benefit! O


kay, so we all now know that the country is skint, totally skint. Where all the money went I do not know, but failed computer projects and consultancy have munched through more billions than I care to add up, and a nine year war in Afghanistan has also helped empty the nation’s coffers. I read this with horror: “Today, there are some families receiving £94,000 a year (£1,800 per week) in benefits. The cost of that single award is equivalent to the total income tax and national insurance paid by sixteen working people on median incomes.” (around £25,000 oer year). Very few people in horticulture,


groundcare or greenkeeping ever get the slightest sniff at a wage anywhere near £100,000 per year. After all, there are very, very few golf clubs that could afford a greenkeeper on £2,000 per week after tax. The article continued: “The study also shows that more than 750,000 families receive benefits and tax credits worth in excess of £20,000 a year.”


That is over £15,000,000,000 - yes,


Terrain Aeration’s David Green is off on one again - and, you have to say, he has a point.


fifteen billion pounds a year, which is two and a half times the six billion pounds that is being cut as the first stage in reducing the national deficit. This is the tax take on 15 million people on £400 per week.


Hang on, at this rate we are running out of working people to pay this bill alone. For one of my employees to take home just £400, after tax and National Insurance, would require an exceptionally long week. To maintain this level of earnings, long term, is illegal because he is classed as a mobile worker, subject to the transport working time directive, that limits working time to an average of forty- eight hours per week. Unlike other industries, ‘transport’ has no provision for opting out of these rules. I pay a reasonable salary for the work I need done, yet I cannot find suitable extra employees, despite heavy unemployment amongst younger men. Why? Principally, because they claim that they would be only marginally better off working for me than if they were to remain on their existing


Grumpy


old Git!


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