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Managerial Self Awareness – You’ve Got This! To be a great manager and leader of staff you need to develop many skills as quickly as possible including emotional intelligence, delivering excellent feedback to your staff, influencing staff, managing your manager and much more. The hardest skill is, and always has been, developing the skill of …
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Why Self-awareness And Self-regulation Are Important For Managers Self-awareness Self-awareness is our ability to accurately perceive the level of skill, knowledge, value and responsibility we use when it comes to our emotions. It gives us the confidence to know who we are and what we have to offer, both personally and professionally. In management situations, …
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Personal Self-Assessment Checklist For Managers We all want to know how we are doing in the job and how we link with staff, colleagues and those senior to us in the organisation. One thing that is certain is that we never see ourselves as others see us. So, what sorts of questions can you ask …
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How Do I Appear To Others? We all live in our own shell and we seldom take time to see how we present ourselves to others or how others might perceive us. This is important, not only in terms of the social aspects of how we run our lives but also for the duties we …
Good Self-Reflection Questions What are my first thoughts about the year that has passed? Mostly positive or negative? If positive, what comes to mind specifically? Negative? What did I discover about my job role and the organisation this year? What were the most challenging moments and why? What were my most powerful learning moments and …
Assessing My Employability Skills We rarely sit down to think about how our employability skills are being developed (unless we see a job advertised and then decide to apply for it!). What we should all be doing, on a regular basis, is having some quality self-review time where we can map out exactly how we …
7 Top Tips For Self-Motivation Have a broader view than just your own: always ensure that you consider the views of others and the likely impact of your decisions upon them. In this way, you are more likely to come up with the “right” decision. Always try to help those who are aspiring managers and …
The Four Rules Of Performance What sets out good performance from poor performance? We recognise poor performance instantly but the science of Performance really boils down to four inter-related components. Competence – are you credible in carrying out the task as set and required? Knowledge – do you actually know what it is that you …
Self-Mastery – Developing Your Effectiveness We are all responsible for our own development and often the most successful managers realise this and do not wait for the Corporate Training juggernaut to hitch up and provide everything from one day Soft Skills training to the Harvard MBA. Those that DO wait effectively stifle their own progress …
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