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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...

What great managers do that okay ones don’t affects us all. Great managers create more than 8 times the value average managers do – that is a huge gap. Learn 5 key principles or approaches and become a better manager. --- Gain Career Changing Management Expertise Access over 200 articles, podcasts and videos dedicated to helping you gain people and management expertise to lead any team to their be...

Making decisions reality at work or getting a decision implemented by others to achieve a desired result - is far harder than making the decision itself. Improve decision buy-in from your boss, your team, and others, to make the implementation of decisions quicker, easier, and more successful. I share the steps and tactics I use in persuading others to buy-in to the decisions made and work to make...

Learn how to give an effective performance review and you have a great tool to motivate and develop team members alongside giving them realistic feedback about their performance. With the right preparation, you won’t feel nervous conducting a performance review. I share 12 vital tips for how to run a performance review meeting really well so your team member get loads out of it. -- Team Management...

The more visible to your bosses you are, and the more you make your work visible, the faster you will be promoted and the further your career will progress. To get promoted you have to be good AND be more visible to your bosses than your competition. I share six key tactics for you to increase your visibility at work making getting promotion at work easier. --- Free Resources For more tips and adv...

It is scary to disagree with someone more powerful than you at work. Learn to disagree respectfully and you are more likely to stand out, create more value and earn faster career progress. Learn 7 ways to respectfully disagree, 5 thought processes for WHEN disagreeing with your boss is the right thing, and 4 actions to improve how you communicate your disagreement. How to disagree with your boss i...

Learn the common mistakes managers make that kill team trust, respect, and appreciation of the manager so you can avoid making them. I share 8 typical mistakes managers make, fundamental mistakes, that your really need to avoid. Each of these 8 typical manager mistakes makes the transition to manager a lot harder and more painful for you and your team. Make these management mistakes and they will...

Feeling safe at work or enjoying psychological safety in a team is a very big deal for all of us. I cover what is psychological safety, 4 stages of psychological safety and 7 ways of creating psychological safety in teams. Feeling safe within a team or having psychological safety at work provides a huge range of benefits including: 1.      Much more positive working atmosphere 2.      Better teamw...

Knowing your team as a manager gives you huge advantages to improve team performance. Get the most out of your team by getting to know your team on more than a superficial level. I share 12 actions to step change team performance through knowing your team a lot better. When you know your team's strengths and weaknesses, you can play to strengths and avoid weaknesses. Do this consistently and...