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The Inconvenient Truths About Management Whatever your role and whatever your duties, management is a bit of a challenge and is never easy. The following are the Inconvenient Truths that unite every manager in every context: Management is hard work: if it was easy everyone would be a manager and on occasion the job will …
Why Trust Is Vital In Leadership It is a primary responsibility of all leaders, in every organisation, to deliver and of necessary create Trust within the business or service as Trust will take organisations past what would normally exist within the standard rules and procedures of Management. Trust will draw in followers to every leader …
How To Increase Your Prices And Get Away With It There are many different reasons why prices need to rise: labour costs, materials and fluctuations in customer demand are all key factors here. As time goes by different brands and services can raise process to exploit market fluctuations but whatever your specific set of circumstances, …
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Reviewing Your Day – Was It A Winner? Days bring with them their own challenges and it is very true to say that one day is not like any other in the manager’s world. Reviewing activity, including the highs and the lows, is an essential tool in gauging your own personal progress and recognising where …
Managerial Excellence – You’ve Got This Standing out from the crowd in management terms is essential if you are to really make your mark and have the career that you deserve. This centres upon being someone who can actually Influence what is going on, listening rather than talking and actually wanting your staff to win …
How To Make The Most Of Your Supervision Session Or Appraisal Supervisions and Appraisals are a golden opportunity to seek clarification and gain information upon your performance and how you are progressing towards your next goal or target. Put simply, the more you know about your performance the more you can gauge how effective you …
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How To Seek Out Your Own Feedback There are times when you need to get some feedback on what you are doing and when you cannot wait for the formal supervision or 1:1 that have been scheduled for some time in the future. We all need to know how we are doing and when we …
How To Deal With Difficult Feedback In the management role, just as in life, you will receive feedback at some points in your career that are not as welcome as other times: this may be because the feedback is something that you really did not want to hear or that it points out weaknesses and …
Did I Make the Right Decision? Managers are paid to make decisions, simple as that, but do you consistently and carefully think and review exactly the decisions that you are making? We can all learn from experience and critically assessing past decisions, and their outcomes, sharpens up the skill going forward. Ask yourself the following …
How Can I Improve My Emotional Intelligence? An effective understanding of the key principles of Emotional Intelligence (EI) sets apart the successful manager from the less-than successful manager as working collaboratively with those around you is a central and essential management attribute. So, to make the most of your management style, consider the following tips …
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