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Create A Company Where Everyone Wants To Work
There seems to be something in organisations today that lowers the creativity of people, something that almost sucks the positive and latent abilities out of them. The cause? Today’s management...
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Why We Procrastinate And How To Overcome It
I love John F. Kennedy’s quote….”The best time for fixing the roof is when the sun is shining!” Personally, my Myers Briggs’ analysis scores me higher on Perceiver rather than Judger. This means I have...
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The One Word That Ensures Commitment To Improvement
Leading team members to improve their performance is probably the biggest topic of conversation that we have on our management courses. Most managers ask how they can encourage people to accept...
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The Key to Professional Excellence
What is it that sets the excellent apart from the rest? What drives the best managers to improve themselves and achieve a level of performance that exudes confidence and builds respect? Research...
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When Was The Last Time You Sharpened Your Axe?
One of my long-time gurus died suddenly this summer. Dr Steven Covey has been an inspiration to me with his writings, his speeches and his ideas for many, many years. He has affected and inspired many...
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How To Stand Out And Gain Recognition At Work
Millions of people go to work every day, do their jobs, go home at night and drift off to sleep knowing that the next day will be a repeat of the last. They don’t make any difference, they don’t create...
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How To Maintain Continuous Improvement
Improving your management skills is a key factor in the success of any business and department. You can’t stand still in today’s business world; to be successful, you not only need to be as good as you...
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Why Employee Development & Training Is So Important For 2013
Uncertainty over the economy both here and abroad means that 2013 could be another challenging year for businesses. The organisations that cope the best will be those that continue to raise the skills...
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How To Get Honest Feedback From Your Employees
One of the best and bravest ways to assess your effectiveness as a manager is by seeking feedback from the people who work for you. The biggest challenge in achieving this is getting your team to be...
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Spotting Your Employee’s Strengths & Helping Them To Develop
Too often as managers we focus on what’s gone wrong and try to put it right. Unfortunately one consequence of this is that we appear to be focusing on the negative and that this is the only feedback we...
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How Can We Reduce Mistakes?
There was a very interesting Horizon’s programme on BBC2 recently that discussed how surgeons have looked at other professionals who work under pressure to see how they have found ways to reduce their...
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Why Training & Development Is So Important For New Managers
The promotion trap for new managers is that they were promoted because they were good at their job not because they are good managers. They have been more used to doing the task than managing a group...
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The World Of Business Needs More Trail Blazers & Here’s Why
If you want to stand out as a manager and leader then be original! For a basic example how many slide deck presentations have you sat through in the past week, month, year? For most managers the figure...
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The Secret Of Successful Leadership Is…? Self-Criticism!
That is the answer according to Jeff Immelt and he should know as he has been the boss of US giant General Electric (GE) for 12 years. He says “I think you can’t do a job like this for a long time...
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Stop The Excuses!
This blog is going to be a bit of a rant so I apologise in advance if it sounds a bit ‘shouty’. The subject of my ire is excuses and a specific kind of excuse in particular. The excuse is the one where...
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What Makes People ‘Lucky’?
I have just read an interesting article on LinkedIn by Dharmesh Shah the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. The piece was all about ‘luck’ and how anyone can create their own? The ‘luck’ Dharmesh refers to is...
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Out Of The Ashes Grow The Roses Of Success
No apologies for non-cricket fans as there are some really great messages in this piece for us all to learn from. Yes this blog is a bit of a post mortem on the thrashing of the England cricket team by...
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The Six Thinking Hats – Infographic
We’ve all heard of the Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats haven’t we? Well, we should hope you have! In this infographic we are going to revisit these 6 learning styles and asess how you can use them...
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Success Is Not About Winning, It’s A State Of Mind!
As the Winter Olympics of Sochi 2014 comes to an end the abiding memory for me will be the significant contrast in emotion of the British women’s and men’s curling teams at the ends of their final...
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Why Every Senior Manager & Leader Should Write A Weekly Blog
All managers and leaders I speak with say they never have enough time, so why am I adding to their burden by saying they must write a blog? The answer is quite simple, it is a perfect communication...
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