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Setting objectives with your manager can be an easy process if you have prepared well or it can be a real challenge if you have not.  Learning how to prepare and propose objectives to my manager helped me get better, easier and more useful objectives for me and my career development.   It should be no surprise that setting goals with your manager is a lot easier when you are supporting reaching th...

Setting goals for the finance team that support the business growth, strength and performance can be a challenge, even for experienced finance professionals. In “Setting Goals for the Finance Team” I provide examples of 7 different areas for goal setting and provide plenty of example finance team objectives. And WITHOUT using lots of financial or accounting terms.  Setting finance team goals, like...

Getting your first management or team supervision role is very exciting and a little scary. Firstly congratulations and welcome to your new career of managing people.   In 8 Tips for New Managers I share 8 very useful tips for those new in the manager role. We all have a preconceived image of what a manager should be like and when we start, we want to do a good job. The pressure is on yet we shoul...

Creating a good relationship with your manager is pretty vital if you want to be happy at work, get a bonus, get promoted and progress your career.  In 10 Great Tips to Manage Your Manager I share practical tips I have used to build and maintain good relationships with wide range of managers and indirect “bosses”.  When thinking about how to manage your boss’ expectations, a great place to start i...

In How to Set Objectives for the Team, I take you through a tried and tested 5 step approach to set clear, actionable, objectives which have team member buy in.  If you are going to put the effort into objective and goal setting, you want to ensure that your objectives help drive accountability and deliver improving team performance. There are many elements that go into how to improve team results...

In “How to Price a Product for Retail” you’re going to discover what retailers really want when it comes to pricing. Your retail pricing strategy should be focused on what the retailer wants and needs and not simply what you want. So “How to Price a Product for Retail” explores 5 key retailer wants that will make all the difference to your product pricing and your retail pricing strategies.  Incre...

Why we should set objectives for our team may seem obvious to some, yet many teams I started working with didn’t have objectives or specific goals to achieve.   Why set objectives?  Setting objectives or goals is a great place to start improving team performance at work. Setting goals for a team helps everyone. Objectives provide direction and focus, helps create accountability, and I think must b...

In “How to Give Performance Feedback to Team Members” I share how to tackle giving really useful feedback – positive and negative - to others on their performance that they will appreciate and that will help them improve what they do.  Giving performance feedback to employees can be hard to do. If feedback is negative, we are worried about offending the other person, creating resentment, ruining r...

How to increase accountability in my team is a question that I have been asked many times by clients, team members and colleagues.  In this podcast, I explain why many managers find holding team members to account difficult and go through what you should do to make increasing accountability in your team much easier.   The benefits you get of increasing accountability in your team in terms of team...

How to hire a successful team is a critical task for any manager or leader in a growing business. As a manager of a team your performance is closed linked to the performance of your team. Hiring the right team members can make or break a team.    In this Podcast “How to Hire a Successful Team - 7 Tips for Getting it Right”, I share my best tips of how to hire the right people for your team to help...

How to manage expectations at work are essential skills to learn and improve no matter what you do. Use these 5 tried and trusted steps do a brilliant job of setting expectations at work. Set and manage expectations well and you will be: 1.            Easier to work with 2.            Colleagues will like you more because you don’t let them down  3.            You are perceived as                 ...

How to Motivate a Team is a question many managers and leaders ask. In this video I take you through 10 tried and tested actions you should take to motivate your team. I always felt that the more that I could do to improve the team, to train and coach them and get them thinking and involved in decisions then their motivation would increase, and this would encourage them to perform at their best. W...

How to Develop Your Best Team Members take you through 9 actions that you should take to get the most from your best team members and keeping them within your team.   How to develop your best team members is a pretty tough challenge as a manager. So if you are lucky enough to have one or more star performers on your team, how do you go about managing and developing them?  There are lots of options...

8 Ways to Improve Managing Teams Through Change shares 8 ways to improve managing teams through change, giving you a list of proven practical steps that you can put into place straight away.  Change is constant in today’s workplace, so managing staff through change is also a fairly constant job for anyone managing teams in business.   Managing teams is not easy at the best of times and during peri...

In “How to Motivate Teams Through Change” I take you through 8 factors - that if you get right – make a huge difference in motivating teams through change (and are very useful in day to day management) ----  Leadership coaching – to increase your impact, your confidence and your team’s results Bespoke, flexible and confidential personal development for middle managers to board directors. To transi...

In “5 Steps to Manage Difficult Employees” I take you through 5 tried and tested steps to make managing difficult employees easier.  -----------------------  In this podcast “5 Steps to Manage Difficult Employees” I explain why, as a manager, doing nothing about difficult employees is the worst option for all concerned. You must take action no matter how difficult it is.   Taking action can be dau...

In this podcast “How do I Prepare for a Management Interview” we take you through 5 key areas you must include in your preparation if you want to get that job offer.    ---------------- Leadership coaching – to increase your impact, your confidence and your team’s results Bespoke, flexible and confidential personal development for middle managers to board directors. To transition to more senior ro...

How to Combine Pricing Strategies to Maximise Price takes you through why combining pricing strategies with marketing strategies can produce fantastic results for your business and your customers and consumers.  In this Podcast “How to Combine Pricing Strategies to Maximise Price” we go through how to combine Cost Plus, Competitive and Value pricing strategies, how to maximise your price compared...

In this Podcast we take you through how value pricing can benefit your product and your business. We look at why it is seen as the most profitable way to price your product and whether it is applicable to you.  When pricing your product, you really should be value pricing.  Pricing can be confusing, and I appreciate it is tempting to add up your costs and ‘just add a bit’ or to copy what someone e...

Interviews are competitive - sometimes very competitive – so the right preparation is a must if you want to get that job offer. And the higher up the career ladder you do, the competition gets tougher because there are less jobs and the competition is better and just like you.   In this podcast, I talk about how much preparation you should do for professional level jobs and above, the four key fac...

Why should you improve interview technique may seem like a no-brainer to some of you thinking about getting a new job. And to others you might be asking how my does interview technique really matter – surely I will get a job based on my skills, experience and attitude not how brilliantly I answers questions.  Which approach is right? In this podcast we set out 9 key factors that go into interview...

In this podcast we take you through competitive pricing and we show you why copying isn’t always the best answer. When you don’t know how to price your product, it is tempting to look at the competition and use their prices as a basis for yours. But what happens if you end up copying the wrong answer? Or what happens if your competition reacts to your price; what should you do then?  It is said th...

In this podcast we take you through business lessons learnt from 2020. We have surveyed colleagues and clients, leaders and directors in multi-national companies and small businesses about what they have learned in 2020. We have discussed the major impacts and the key business lessons that we should take forward. These have been grouped these into 7 main 2020 lessons for you.  2020 has been a chal...

In this podcast we take you through the method that 80% of businesses use as part of their product pricing. Cost plus pricing. It is one of the founding pricing methods but is it too basic or can it still be key to business success?  It is said that ‘Pricing is either your most powerful weapon or your worst enemy.’   We have created this product pricing series to provide tips to help you make pric...

Succession Planning is absolutely in your interests if you are a business owner or a person seeking promotion.   It can also be very useful to attract and retain great employees, increase the value and performance of a business and reduce the stress when one of your team moves on.   Find out why in this video as we share tips on how to set up effective business planning and discuss why many people...