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Learning how to delegate tasks as a manager is vital for any management position. You can’t and shouldn’t do everything yourself. If you don’t learn how to delegate effectively at each management level, your management career will stall.  Learning how to delegate work as a manager is not as easy as it first seems. In my first management role, I quickly learnt that just telling a team member to do...

If you want to enter the management ranks and progress, a big part of your future success will depend on you learning how to influence others at work, how to influence your manager and potentially how to influence the leadership team.  Unfortunately, just having an opinion doesn’t count for much – everyone has an opinion. To influence others at work, you need to back up your opinion with evidence...

Learning how to facilitate a meeting effectively is a great skill to develop for anyone who runs, organises, or attends a lot of meetings.   Facilitating a meeting effectively is likely to make the meeting a lot more useful for everyone - attendees are more likely to solve the problem or make the decision they are at the meeting for. And it is likely to be a much more enjoyable journey to get ther...

Learn 20 Ways to Build Trust On Your Team. Learning how to build trust is a foundation for team happiness, effectiveness and performance – a key lesson I learnt in over 25 years of managing teams in corporates to SMEs.  If you have a good manager, they should be able to teach you a lot about how to build trust in teams. For those of you that don’t have a good manager, this video will get you start...

Set the right business goals and you are much more likely to achieve success, outperform competitors, grow faster, and generate more profits and cash.   How to set the right business goals and then achieve those goals is unfortunately not so straight forward.  I have a 5 step process to make setting the right business goals and objectives easier and quicker, which also helps deliver better outcome...

Being asked about your 30 60 90 day plans for interviews is a make or break question. This interview question separates the great candidates from the good to okay candidates. The candidate’s answer also provides the hiring manager with some insight and confidence into the value that would be created by hiring that candidate.   So planning your answer to “What is your 30 60 90 day plan?” or “How wo...

In “How To Run A  Great Team Meeting” I take you through 9 tips on how to running effective meetings, saving time, and even more importantly, creating better more useful and valuable output from those meeting.   We have all been in meetings that wasted our time and didn’t seem to achieve anything. The average person attends 10 meetings or more per week and spends 31 hours in unproductive meetings...

How to Set a Meeting Agenda to get the best out of the meeting and not waste attendees time takes a little bit of thought. The average person attends 10 meetings or more per week and spends 31 hours in unproductive meetings per month.  I have 7 actions that you can take to create meeting agendas that work, keep everyone engaged and produce useful output. These cover meeting agenda best practices a...

Running effective one to one meetings at work - I think - are one of the most important things to get right if you want to: ·        Develop your team members ·        Improve team effectiveness and happiness ·        Retain your best staff ·        And get promoted as a manager  In “How to Run Effective One to One Meetings at Work” we take you through 9 tried and tested tips to improve the effect...

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...