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Knowing how to praise staff at work and being able to show your appreciation to your team is  brilliant to build team motivation, a positive culture and help increase team performance. Everyone wants to be appreciated and valued. Learn exactly how to praise employees at work to maximise motivation and action. ---  Course Links To learn exactly how to give really useful positive and corrective feed...

How to boost your productivity as a manager is different because your team’s productivity is more important, and you have a big influence over that productivity.  I share 4 winning productivity tips for managers. These are the best actions you can take for how to be more productive at work as a manager.  ----  ---- To boost your productivity at work an obvious tip is to put time and effort into pl...

In my experience, there are 4 main reasons that staff perform badly. To learn how to handle poor performers and to be a lot more successful in managing teams, the actions you take should address each of these reasons. Remove poor performance from your team fairly, quickly and cheaply. ---  ---  Most workplaces are so busy with so many initiatives happening at any given time, it is really easy for...

How to ask great questions as a leader is a skill that you can absolutely build no matter where you are today. Asking great questions as a leader gives you knowledge, insights, action, direction, opportunity, feedback, trust, and more Take these 8 actions to keep asking better and better questions as a leader at work ----  ---  How to ask good questions? What are great questions to ask? Great ques...

Get your best employees to stay and you are likely to have a better performing team and a happier team.  Your best employees stay because of relationships and loyalties as much as being in a good working environment where they feel they are progressing and developing.   I explain 6 ways to get your best employees to stay. ---  ---  6 ways to get good employees to stay starts with who you bring int...

How to give corrective feedback to an employee is a scary prospect when you don’t know how to do it or when you have had bad reactions with previous attempts If you don’t provide critical feedback, then it will be:  1.         Harder for the other person to improve quickly 2.         They may not realise that they are missing expectations 3.         You are not really treating them fairly if they...

To be able to speak with clarity and confidence at work makes you more effective in your role and you are seen as more successful. To speak with confidence at work takes a little know how and some practice. That is all. I share 5 steps to help you speak with clarity at work. Speaking to others are key communication skills for any role and job ---- Gain Career Changing Management Expertise Access o...

You should value a positive attitude before skills at work. I am going to explain why this is so important as an employee and as a manager thinking about who to promote and who to recruit. Work on your positive attitude. I share lots of tips of what to do and what to look for to build positive team cultures and get the best from your team in the process. --- Courses for Managers to Increase Team P...

Successfully managing employees in their first few months is crucial for their success, and have an impact on the success of the team. New joiners first few months are critical to creating a good impression, building positive relationships, getting to grips with their role – all of which set them up for success over the coming years. When new employees are successful, the team is more successful,...

Working out what your most valuable work is and do that work! Everyone has the same amount of time. What you do with the time you have is the most important thing to move from okay performance to amazing performance. Work out you most important priorities at work. I share 4 crucial prioritisation tips for managers.  ----  ----  How to focus on your most valuable work starts with understanding that...

Managers need to improve team results. The main reason a company employs a manager in the first place is to improve team results by more than the cost of employing them. You, as a manager, are in a great position to help your team get the best results. I share 4 practical and very effective ways to help your team to their best results. ---- ---- There are lots of ways to help your team to get grea...

How to keep your career moving upwards is a question most of us think about. We all want some progress, so we don’t get stuck doing the same job for ages. There are a lot of factors in how to keep your career moving. Climbing the corporate ladder starts with working hard and doing a good job. More is needed so you don’t lose momentum in your career.  I share 4 key approaches that will massively he...

How to influence people who don’t report to you is a really important skill to make you more effective at work. As you rise through the ranks, you are increasingly expected to influence without authority to deliver results and desired outcomes.  The ability to influence employees who don’t report to you and influence people in other teams enables you to be a lot more effective in your job. You can...

Being confident and self-confident at work is a very big deal – it helps you enjoy your job more, be more effective, be more influential and move your career forward faster.  I share 10 actions for you to take to boost your self confidence at work. Some are short term, giving you improvements in days, others are longer term and very effective to build self confidence.   ----  Gain Career Changing...

Going from manager to director level is a big step and a difficult step. Firstly, there are few board director positions relative to senior manager positions. To secure one of the few director positions available you need to stand out and operate in a different way from your peers in senior manager roles. I share 7 actions to take to get your first director role, going from manager to board direct...

How to control your nerves when presenting is a big deal when you have to stand up in front of an audience and speak. You might be presenting to a small group, in a team meeting, or giving a presentation on a stage. You worry your nerves during a presentation will make you freeze, make mistakes causing you to look silly.  I share 4 brilliant actions for how to control your nerves during a presenta...

There are 4 key reasons that stop staff performing at work. Most of the time, the manager of a team can influence or remove the reasons that stop staff performing. Learn different ways to reduce or remove the blockers to employee performance to reduce underperforming employees in your team.  ---  ---  The 4 main reasons why employees under perform are: 1.     A lack of direction and expectations 2...

Developing a learning mindset and mastering self-learning at work are critical to developing a management career. Very few managers get formal training which means if you want to get good, a growth mindset is a massive help.  I explain what a learning mindset is, why it is so important to develop for managers and give you 5 tips to help you building a growth mindset at work. The will to learn as q...

The mistakes that lead to burnout at work are pretty easy to make if you are not watching out for them.  Some burnout happens because of specific behaviours of employees. Even more burnout is caused by the mistakes of managers.  I share 5 mistakes employees make and 5 mistakes managers make that lead to burnout at work. ----  To reduce the pressure on you and reduce your workload while strengtheni...

Managers use power and authority in so many different ways. The power and authority you gain from a position is only one type of power and I would argue, increasing ineffective - on its own - in today’s workplace. How managers and leaders use power and authority are a huge part of their effectiveness in their roles I explain how great managers use power and authority for the benefit of their team,...

The goal of every manager should be to build a high performing team or at least a higher performing team. Team performance is how managers are assessed, and it is the core purpose of a manager’s role.  I share 3 must do’s to build a high performing team based on my experience of turning around multiple underperforming teams and winning multiple “Best Team” prizes, again with different teams. --- ...

Promoting an employee to manager is a very big deal. A great manager enables and increases team performance. A poor manager reduces team performance and increases team costs. Choosing to promote the right person is a very big deal for you, the team and the business. Learn 7 behavioural signs to look for when thinking about who to promote to manager plus more great employee promotion best practices...

How well do you deal with uncertainty at work? We all have to deal with uncertainty – businesses are always changing and adapting, so we do too. Yet humans hate uncertainty. Our brains translate it into a treat and our natural reactions are often unhelpful. I share 8 different ways to deal with uncertainty at work – 4 for you personally and 4 to help your team through uncertainty. --- Team Managem...

I know how to ask for and get a raise, yet I hate asking for a raise. Asking for a pay rise is an emotional big deal for most of us. Make sure you are using the best approach to absolutely get the pay rise you deserve – increase your salary today! ----  Additional Resources you will find useful: Get more FREE example scripts for how to ask your boss for a raise here: https://enhance.training/lm-lp...

What should a manager do? What is the purpose of a manager? There are two fundamental outcomes a manager needs to deliver for the company that pays their salary. Deliver both well and you will have a great career in management. Don’t deliver either and you won’t last long. Learn what a manager needs to deliver, and I share some of the best ways to achieve each that I have learnt in my 20+ year man...