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Preventing workplace stress is in everyone’s interests. I cover four fundamental major causes of stress in the workplace and share tips on how to deal with stress at work. Stress at work costs the UK economy £28bn per year with 23.3m sick days taken.  As a manager, you should be thing how to deal with stress at work for yourself personally and just as importantly, for your team. If team members ar...

Everyone comes under pressure to perform at work. How we handle the pressure to perform at work is a big part of our personal success as well as how much we enjoy being at work. I share 6 actions to handle the pressure to perform at work. Pressure in the workplace increases as you enter the management ranks and progress though them. Dealing with pressure at work at times can get overwhelming. Deal...

Learning how to play office politics to your advantage is a crucial part of any management job. Workplace politics happen because of conflicts, differences and scarcity. Navigating office politics is a key part of building personal influence within the organisation in which you work.  Learn 6 Crucial Ways to Successfully Navigate Workplace Politics. How to manage office politics starts with ensuri...

Learn 7 ways to use 1:1 meetings to develop employees and improve performance of the team. One-on-one meetings with employees are the most value able of my week and it is incredible what you can achieve through them.  One on one meetings are super useful in setting goals and expectations and more importantly revising progresses towards goals and maintaining expectations. One-to-one should be held...

Self-awareness for managers is an essential skill to lead and manage others better. Most people think they are self-aware, yet research has shown only 10-15% of people are truly self-aware. Take 5 actions to improve your self-awareness and make it easier to manage teams. --- Team Management Course Managing teams well is hard work, even when you know exactly what to do. When you have been left to f...

Articulate yourself better! I share 8 powerful ways to be more articulate. When you can articulate your thoughts clearly and confidently to others, you gain a lot of confidence, feel more valued and be more effective at work. What does it mean to be more articulate? Being articulate means being clearer in what you say – the words, sentences etc used and also being better at how you communicate – u...

Why consistency is key to success in improving team performance is because consistency creates confidence, trust, belief, safety and ensures team members understand exactly what is expected. I share 5 steps to master consistency in people management. --- Team Management Course Managing teams well is hard work, even when you know exactly what to do. When you have been left to figure things out by y...

Gaining employee trust - working out how to build trust with a team – is a key step to building and  improving team performance. Without trust, delivering on all the other responsibilities of a manager become so much harder. I share 7 actions for how to build trust with your team. Winning team trust is most easily done while being genuine, while doing your best to help and support team members rea...

Leaders should care about bullying on their teams and within their companies because the negative impact on performance and costs is big. I share 5 reasons managers should care about bullying and 7 suggestions for how to stop bullying in the workplace. The impact of bullying on teams is big. 33% report they have seen colleagues being bullied. If managers don’t appear to take action, then team trus...

Success is getting your employees thinking. For any manager, the more your employees can help you do your job, the better off you will be, the company will be, and your employees will be.  I share why you should get your employees thinking, 3 key ways to get your team members thinking and when to assign problems not tasks at work. Success is getting your employees thinking because when you are usi...

Managers should have opinions and express them. Too many of us view expressing an opinion at work as a potentially dangerous move. Learn why speaking up is so important, how to speak up at work and when to express your opinion at work plus 10+ tips to make speaking up easier. Expressing an opinion at work is a key way to be noticed AND more importantly giving your opinion is a key way you can add...

Deliver great customer services and you will be liked and appreciated. As a manager or a business owner, knowing practical steps to deliver great customer service is super important.   When thinking about ways to deliver better customer service, we usually think about external customers or clients. Great customer service is just as important internally. As managers, our teams work with many collea...

Stop tolerating poor employees. No matter how you feel or the problems with taking action, not taking action is a lot worse for you personally, the team and the business. I am covering 4 critical reasons why you really want to take action quickly. ---- Reliably transform problem people impacting team performance. Don't procrastinate as people problems nearly always grow and they will impact t...

How to gain respect from your boss is a top priority for pretty much everyone. I have 7 actions to share with you to proactively gain respect from your manager and then deepen that respect to become a trusted partner to your manager. Gain respect from your boss by helping them personally and helping the team. Focusing on both will create a lot of goodwill towards you and fundamental in how to get...

Work smarter before working harder is about targeting higher value work or making improvements to create more value for the business in which you work. I share 5 essential approaches to increase the value your efforts create. To be more successful and to progress your career quicker, work smarter before working harder to get ahead at work. What does working smarter mean – simply creating more valu...

Working out what actions to manage your peers after promotion is a real challenge. The transition from peer to manager is tough for both parties.   I share 7 actions to manage your peers after promotion to make the transition easier and quicker. Managing former peers takes courage and confidence. Use these 7 actions to learn how to manage your peers after a promotion. You will a lot happier and mo...

We can all learn a lot from how great managers handle criticism. Dealing with criticism at work is not easy and as you climb the ranks, you are guaranteed to get more criticism.  Take these 5 key actions to handle criticism at work. It is really easy to get defensive or dismiss criticism without thinking about what is behind the criticism. How you handle criticism at work in part will determine ho...

Building rapport with colleagues and connecting with work colleagues is so important in creating a great team to work in and for improving team performance.   I am sharing 5 ways to build rapport and connect with work colleagues. These are tried and tested approaches that all absolutely work. Building rapport is a critical step in building trust and stronger positive relationships, which in turn c...

Managing upwards well is so important. Having a good relationship with your boss improves your happiness at work, your engagement, increases what you learn and speeds up your career progress. Who doesn’t want all these outcomes?  Learn 6 critical tips for managing upwards brilliantly during your one-on-one meetings with your manager. Your one-on-one meetings with your boss are your most important...

Instilling team direction and consistently keeping team members pointed in the same direction is a lot harder than most managers anticipate.   Learn 6 actions for successfully instilling team direction, and thus making reaching team goals a lot easier.  Consistently communicating team direction is needed with the pressures and demands placed on everyone. It is so easy to be distracted and to forge...

An employee who can’t take criticism or who won’t accept feedback can be very difficult to manage. Learn 7 Steps to make your job a lot easier and managing them more effective. When you have to manage an employee who can’t take criticism it is tempting to not give them any feedback or take the very safe option of providing positive or bland feedback. This route doesn’t help anyone, especially you...

What is a team ownership mindset and more importantly how do I go about increasing ownership within a team? 9 Characteristics, 9 Benefits and 10 proven ways to create team ownership mindsets. ---  10 Factors In Creating Team Accountability can be found here: https://enhance.training/10-factors-in-creating-team-accountability-tm0154/ ---  Getting team members to take ownership is a really important...

Being able to handle difficult experience and challenges at work (and in life) is a very important ability to succeed, to become good at any skill or job.   Learn 7 reasons to build emotional resilience at work plus 7 critical ways to build emotional resilience. Building resilience, in my view, is incredibly useful in life and definitely useful at work. Managers need emotional resilience to do the...

There are many signs of a bad employee – learn 12 of them. 4 warning signs of a problem employee give you a much better chance of catching problems early and avoiding difficult and time consuming actions later on. A stitch in time saves nine really does apply. One of the key warning signs of poor employees is a lack of openness. Problem employees nearly always try to hide the problems they are cre...

Networking skills for managers become increasingly important as we climb the ranks. I share 4 keys ways to improve your networking both internally within your company and externally. There are a lot of elements that go into networking skills for professionals and I am covering the 4 key ones that are at the core of being successful at professional networking for managers. Don’t start networking ju...