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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...

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...