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How to get more respect as a manager or leader from the team you lead is an awful lot easier when you follow 3 hugely important principles. You can put these into practice immediately, whether you are a new manager or have many years’ experience. Learn a ton of practical tips to get the respect of your team quickly ---- Team Management Course Managing teams well is hard work, even when you know ex...

Every manager wants to keep their high performing staff longer. High performing employees deliver a lot more value for relatively little more in pay. Keep enough high performers in your team, manage them well and you are nearly guaranteed at least good team performance.  I share 5 actions to keep high performing staff longer  ---- How to keep high performers starts with your approach and attitude...

Being more persuasive at work gives you a ton of personal benefits plus can make you a lot better at your job.  Anyone can become more persuasive at work using 4 specific actions without needing to be a smooth talking extrovert or a born salesman.  Learn exactly how to convince others at work to do what you need. ---- How to be more persuasive starts with understanding the person or team you are t...

Why improving self awareness will make you a better leader – leading others is all about relationships. When you have a great and honest relationship with yourself, you are much better placed to have similar relationships with others.  Better relationships increase trust, teamwork, motivation, enjoyment … in a work context the list is long. Increase all these elements and you get significantly inc...

A great project business case creates excitement and anticipation within the business for the benefits promises. In addition to the upsides, a project business case should carefully set expectations about the effort, resources and change needed to achieve those benefits. I share 8 reasons why you should write a business case for a project, 4 damaging mistakes to avoid plus 8 key sections to includ...

Coaching is so effective for managers for many reasons and coaching team members is also a very effective skills for team managers to develop.  I share 5 factors that make coaching so effective for managers, plus coaching development tips to maximise the development of your most important team members.  ---  For coaching for you or your team, please get in touch via email support@enhance.training...

How you manage incompetent employees is essential to improving team performance and reducing the time, effort and hassle you experience in dealing with poor employees. Use these 4 steps to be fair to yourself, your team and your business  ---  Gain Career Changing Management Expertise Access over 200 articles, podcasts and videos dedicated to helping you gain people and management expertise to lea...

Run great weekly team meetings and staff will want to attend, the team meeting will be useful to everyone, and holding the weekly team meeting will actually improve team performance over time compared to not holding them. I share what I have found works really well for how to run staff meetings effectively. Get  better staff meeting ideas and start improving meetings today. --- Resources One-on-On...

How to set OKRs with your team and use them to deliver the right goals quicker and better will make you and your team a lot more successful. Using the OKRs or Objectives and Key Results system helps prioritisation, creates a focus on results rather than activity and aligns everyone’s efforts to deliver the right goals. I share 6 steps for how to set OKRs with your team and achieve the right goals....

Key result areas or KRAs are a very useful tool to increase employee understanding and accountability for the results they are being asked to deliver. KRAs help better align employees work to wider goals and make better use of resources. At an employee level KRAs focus individuals on delivering results rather than undertaking activity.   Learn what are key result areas and 5 great ways to use key...

Keeping team members happy, motivated, and performing is great for you and great for your team. Better team performance and an great working environment come from a happy team. Keeping staff happy is within your control as a manager and you can implement each of these actions quickly.    I share 7 ways to make your staff happy at work that every manager can implement easily.  ----  Keeping employe...

How to focus your team on the KPIs you measure is as hard as choosing the right KPIs in the first place. Greater focus from the team means more time and effort directed at what drives the KPIs, which will increase team performance.  I share 5 key tactics to get your team laser focused on the key performance indicators you measure. --- KPIs or key performance indicators are how you measure and trac...

What stops you making decisions at work? Work decisions can have big consequences, big impacts or are very public, making deciding on what to do harder.  I share 7 common reasons for not making a decision at work, and 3 practical ways to overcome decision paralysis at work. Improving your decision making skills today. ---  There are loads of reasons that stop you making decisions at work. Fear of...

Being in middle management is a tough job. Middle managers are also vital to the success of your business, translating the business goals and strategy into day to day activity and performance to reach those goals.  Businesses with their middle managers in the top quartile of performance on average delivered 3 to 21 times more shareholder value than middle managers in the other quartiles. A massive...

Learning how to talk effectively to higher ups is a big deal for your confidence and career prospects. Once you understand the elements of communicating effectively with executives and senior management, you will find it easier and easier to effectively communicate with higher ups.  I share 6 tactics to talk effectively to higher ups giving you practical actions to help you improve quickly. ---  C...

Being open minded at work, in my view is a critical career success factor, for any professional or managerial role. Being open minded means you learn faster, are more empathetic, build better relationships faster … in short, open minded people usually do better jobs and are easier to work with. I share 4 ways to be open minded at work and maintain an open mindset. --- How to be more open minded st...

Grow your team by coaching employees. There are so many benefits to investing your time to help your team members improve what they do and build new skills. Coaching your team is a great way to help build those trickier skills like people management and decision making. I share employee coaching techniques for 5 high value skills to your employees that will make your job as a manager a lot easier....

Get more recognition at work by learning how to communicate the benefits your work gives to your boss and colleagues. When you make the value you create clear and memorable, you really stand out at work and get a lot more recognition.  I share 6 ways to get more recognition at work and clearly stand out from the crowd.  How to stand out at work starts with doing the important things really well. Y...

High performing teams are built not recruited. High performing teams produce amazing results because of how they operate; how team members work together; how they communicate and collaborate and how they support and help each other. Learn what makes high performing teams at work, what amazing teams do differently and 4 things the manager needs to do differently in building a high performing team....

What to get your team working on is super important as a manager. Possibly the most important thing. Choosing valuable team goals is the difference between delivering okay or great team performance. Learn 4 actions for choosing the right team goals to increase your team’s performance.  Choosing the right team goals at work is super important as goals provide direction, focus, purpose, and a fair w...

Delivering bad news to staff is definitely one of the hardest jobs of being a manager. There is nothing nice about delivering bad news to employees and team members I explain exactly what to do when giving bad news to employees - during and after sharing bad news. Delivering bad news to your team at work is going to provoke an emotional response from multiple people. Before delivering bad news get...

Good teamwork at work is hugely valuable for both manager and company. Teams significantly outperform groups of individuals, in my experience. Signs of great teamwork point to a good manager leading the team. I share 6 signs of good teamwork at work and how to improve teamwork in your team. Teamwork in the workplace is hugely beneficial for the manager who’s personal performance is assessed on the...

Building responsibility in teams increases team performance and makes working in the team much more enjoyable. A win for everyone.  The manager has the biggest influence to encourage employees to take responsibility and knowing what to do makes a massive difference to your effectiveness as a manager.  I share 5 actions for building a culture of responsibility in teams to increase performance. How...

Learning safe ways to challenge at work can be career defining. Challenging at work is a crucial element of building better ideas and solutions. Being comfortable and skilled enough to challenge your boss without upsetting is one of the secrets to stand out at work. Learn 5 safe ways to challenge at work and giving feedback to your boss. How to give feedback to your boss can also be one of those d...

Managers … put your team before yourself to gain rapid promotion. This may sound a little counter intuitive, yet your performance is judged on your team’s performance.  Learn 4 compelling reasons for why putting your team first will make you a much better manager and help you get rapid promotion. Plus get practical tips on HOW to put team before yourself. Become a better manager by putting your te...