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Effective listening skills for managers is one half of your communication. Using active listening skills increases your influence on colleagues and team members, which in turn helps you do a better job. I share 5 ways for how to be a good listener at work and further tips on improving your effectively listening skills. --- Leadership coaching – to increase your impact, your confidence and your tea...

Improving your problem solving skills at work is critical to improving your career prospects. Every business needs and loves good problem solvers.  To help you develop good problem solving skills and to help you practice those skills, we are going through these 7 steps to improve your problem solving skills at work. --- Leadership coaching – to increase your impact, your confidence and your team’s...

How to give a great presentation at work is a key skill to learn for any manager. I will be sharing 9 presentation tips to help you improve your presentation skills, and 3 tips to practice presenting so you can learn how to present like a pro at work. You will be giving presentations regularly – informally to small groups of your team through to much more formal presentations to larger audiences. ...

Being more conscious of our audience’s communication style enables us to flex our communication style, which improves our ability to communicate effectively. Improve 4 verbal communication styles at work, plus tips on improving critical factors affecting your communication effectiveness. Ineffective communication at work is common and 1.      Wastes a lot of everyone’s time 2.      Wates a lot of...

Getting a bigger pay rise is an ordeal that most people hate going through. I share 8 ways of getting a salary raise that will make the preparation and conversations with your manager much easier. Many people don’t do the right preparation before asking for a salary increase. We think in terms of ourselves – why we need get a bigger salary because we want to go on that holiday, get a new car etc. ...

Negotiate effectively at work and you make your life a lot easier. I share 7 actions to negotiate effectively at work – all which make a big difference as a manager. Better negotiation skills will help you every single day at work. As a manager, you are negotiating with your team, your manager, your stakeholders, your customers and suppliers. It is a long list and you spend quite a big part of you...

Developing your team is a key enabler of many benefits you get back when you invest in training and development for your team – I take you through 6 valuable benefits plus share 7 development options. I know the investment you make in developing your team members will be paid back many times over.  What you get from developing your team includes improved team dynamics. Everyone likes a manager tha...

There are absolutely times when you should quit your job – for your happiness, for your health and for your career progress. Learn 5 signs you should quit your job. When you should quit your job is an assessment of the pros and cons of your current situation versus the benefits of moving to another job with a new team and new manager plus the effort of making that move. --- Leadership coaching – t...

Managing teams working from home is harder than managing teams working in the office. To help you with managing remote employees, we are going through 8 actions for managing teams working from home. When leading a remote team it is super important to set crystal clear expectations. If team members are not sure what is needed from them and when, when working from home, it become even harder to meet...

How to deal with conflicts at work is pretty scary if you don’t know what steps to take and what to look out for. Conflicts usually have anger, frustration, annoyance and other emotions flying between two or more parties and stepping into the middle of this takes some courage. ---- Gain Career Changing Management Expertise Access over 200 articles, podcasts and videos dedicated to helping you gain...

Creating team accountability makes your job as a manager as lot easier. Creating team member accountability reduces the time and energy you spend in decision making, solutioning and planning out the steps to implement solutions.  There are many factors that go into creating accountability at work. The first of 10 factors in creating team accountability which we are covering are setting crystal cle...

Being bullied at work is horrible. Bullying saps confidence, your focus on work, your time, and your motivation. Even worse is not doing anything. This give a bully free reign which is likely to mean the bullying continues or gets worse. This will not help your happiness, nor your motivation nor performance at work.  You will learn 7 steps to tackle bullying at work, to give you confidence and kno...

Knowing how to spot bullying on your team as a manager is super useful. Bullying is very damaging to team motivation and performance.   Bullying is very tough for those on the receiving end of being bullying behaviour. Not doing anything about bullying – through ignorance, not knowing what to do or being unwilling to act – is very damaging to your reputation and standing as a manager.  Many signs...

When you manage older team members it can be pretty nerve racking and intimidating especially if there is a large age gap. You might be a new manager or have a new team to manage when you first manage older workers.   Your confidence in yourself and your ability to treat older employees in exactly the same way as you treat younger team members is really important. Confidence makes a huge differenc...

Working out how to manage lazy team members and taking the right action to reduce or remove the issue is a challenge most managers’ dread.  If you ignore lazy employees at work, laziness has a way of spreading into the rest of the team. Taking action quickly is a must.  I am sharing 6 tried and tested ways to deal with lazy employees so you can deal with lazy team members effectively and fairly.  ...

Time management for managers is a real challenge. The demands on your time and workload only seem to increase. Time always seems to be against you.  I have 5 ways for managers to gain more time plus share 8 time management techniques for managers.   As a manager you never have enough time and always want to get more done.  So the first action to gain more time for managers is ruthlessly prioritise...

How useful is Myers Briggs personality test? 2m people each year take the Myers Briggs test, usually as part of a team exercise. Do Myers Briggs really tell you anything useful?  The personality test will be useful for some and a lot less useful for others depending on your own self-awareness.   A bit on Myers Briggs explained – the test has been around from the 1940’s, uses 90+ forces questions t...

The impact of manager skill on team performance is huge in my view. I have been managed by some amazing managers and some terrible ones.   My motivation, my ability to get things done, my understanding of direction and host of other areas was massively different with the best skilled managers compared to the worst.  Think about the cost to the business of lower manager skill – low motivation, lowe...

Having good questioning skills as a manager gives you a massive advantage in doing your job so I am explaining 6 ways to improve your questioning skills as a manager.   Improving your questioning skills leads to so many benefits for you personally. You gain a better understanding of the problems you face, get to know your team members better, find out a whole lot more about what is really going on...

Having to deal with a manager who undermines you is an extra tough situation to resolve. Managers  have more authority and influence with the company through their position than you are likely to have so dealing with this situation requires extra care and slightly different approach.  I am taking your through the signs of undermining behaviour to look out for and 5 steps for how to deal with a man...

7 methods to motivate your team gives you practical actionable methods to motivate a team which work with all teams.  Knowing how to motivate a team is a great skill for any manager to have and everyone can learn how to motivate. Engaged and motivated teams perform a lot better and are much nicer places to work – great for everyone.  So the first method to motivate a team is to share your vision w...

How to improve team communication remains a top challenge for pretty much every business, and with it a challenge for all managers.  Being able to communicate is super important to ensure: 1.      Everyone understands the direction of travel expected 2.      Activities are better co-ordinate within the business 3.      Each person is better able to do their job   To help you do this effectively ,...

All managers aiming to build great team performance are helping their team, themselves, and the business. If your team is performing well and appears happy and motivated, then chances are you will be asked to manage more people. This is a great way to increase your influence and impact on the business and win promotions.  How do you build great team performance is the key question. We go through 5...

Knowing how to help an unhappy employee recover their motivation and positive outlook is a great skill for a manager to have.  Unhappy employees: 1.      Tend to be less motivated and produce less 2.      They can become disgruntled employees causing all sorts of issues. 3.      Unhappy employees make your job of managing the team much harder 4.      They are much more likely to leave, with all th...

Dealing with negative employees quickly is important to stop negativity spreading. Managing a negative team member can be difficult, managing a negative team is disastrous.  As a manager, taking action to reduce or removing the negativity is a must. There is a lot you can do quickly.  I’m taking your through 6 tried and tested steps for dealing with negative employees quickly and fairly. ----  Lea...