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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...

How to develop key performance indicators is very important process to learn as a manager as you are creating a tool to help you effectively manage more people, bigger projects, and more complexity without being overwhelmed.   How you use KPIs will help you drive the right behaviours and activities which in turns drives better results.  Many managers have not been taught how to develop relevant, t...

Learn 8 actions to take for employees not hitting targets and you will reduce your frustration and problems.   Doing nothing and hoping that employees start hitting targets at work is the worst plan – doing the same thing very rarely gives you a different result. Take action for employees missing targets.  The first action to take for employees not hitting targets is to understand what the problem...

When to say No at work is a critical as how you say no at work.   You don’t want to offend others, or appear to be unreasonable or difficult. Even more important, you don’t want to let others down, be a walk over or overload yourself.  Getting good at how to say no is a key skill to develop as early as possible. If you go into the management ranks without being good at saying no, your problems wil...

Active listening skills for managers can make a massive different to how well you do job as a manager. To manage a team effectively and well, learning about each individual and what is going on in the team is essential and active listening skills are a key part of your management skills to achieve this.   We spend around 45% of our day listening to others, yet only 2% of professionals have receive...

How to create a project plan that you manager will sign off is not as hard as you might think.   It doesn’t matter if the project is big or small, include 8 these eight project plan components, and you will be set up to successfully deliver your project and have everything to needed to convince your manager and other stakeholders to sign off your project plan.   When thinking about how to write a...

There are lots of reasons why employees leave their jobs. I am sharing the top reasons employees quit their jobs backed up by multiple employee surveys. The first three of these reasons are always in the top 5, no matter when the survey was carried out.  Why good employees leave is useful to know from the managers point of view because they you can work to delay the person leaving as long as possi...

Giving negative feedback to employees is one of the most feared tasks of managers. 43% of 2,700 leaders surveyed found giving corrective feedback is a “stressful and difficult experience” and hence the majority of managers don’t give negative feedback.   In an Officevibe survey from thousands of companies, 83% of employees really appreciate feedback, regardless of whether its positive or negative....

Pressure at work is next to impossible to avoid, not matter what job you do. Therefore learning how to deal with pressure at work is a pretty sensible skill set to develop.   Your ability to productively manage pressure at work is as important to your career progress as developing many other more obvious skills. I take you through 6 tactics to deal with pressure at work, which will help you with m...

How to Write a CV For Professionals to consistently get interviews for the jobs you really want demands a slightly different approach. Updating your CV and hoping this will get you to interview is not enough.  When you write your CV, you are giving the reader an example of your work. The CV writing skills you demonstrate are another area you can compete on  - in addition to what you have done – wh...