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What Are The Top Five Management Challenges Right Now? The management landscape is continually shifting and developing from the impact of seismic changes in the business environment, no more so than now with the huge instability and uncertainty driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, geo-political dynamics and ever-demanding customers. This creates huge challenges for managers and …
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How To Improve Low-Performing Employees All organisations, and all managers, will always be faced with the problem that not all of the their employees are high-performing individuals and that these member of staff do not fully contribute to the work of the teams to which they belong. There may be many issues that come to …
Agile Principles On A Post-it Note Let’s keep things nice and simple – simple is good, it stays in the memory, cannot easily be forgotten, no excuses for not following it, can be publicised in many different forms around the organisation and it fits neatly into a succinct and effective social media message. Brilliant! Organisations …
Why Leaders Need To Show Patience If only, as a leader, you had more time to think about things, really think about them. Leading takes skill and patience, especially when big decisions need to be made well and when crises arrive. Staff will look to you to show composure at times of extreme adversity, frustration …
How To Be The Person You Want To Be We have a vision and driving perception that the person we are here, right now, is the person we will always be and, as such, we are the finished item, the best that we can be. The best in our managerial, professional and personal lives. It …
Increase Turnover By Paying Your Staff More! Let’s all learn a priceless (no pun intended!) lesson from an entrepreneur who decided to turn the traditional concept of only paying staff a salary sufficient to retain them, to investing in giving his staff an excellent salary package to retain and motivate them. Flies in the face …
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How To Respond Well To Feedback We should all be looking for, and using, feedback continually to develop and refine our skills as managers and individuals, yet we all have our own perceptions about this process and rarely have a totally positive approach to receiving, and then using, the information we have been given. Too …
The Dangers Of Second-Hand Stress Emotions are contagious: just as the positive vibe from winning a Bid, securing a new client or negotiating a great deal are the things we all feed off at work, the negativity and feelings of despondency from stress given off by colleagues, and the wider organisation, can be devastating for …
3 Cardinal Sins Creating Bad Business Decisions Making decisions is probably the most important factor that separates managers from more junior staff: careers are made, and broken, by the individual manager’s ability to make sound, reasoned and most importantly, correct decisions over a long period of time. Nobody, however skilled they might be, can make …
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How To Spot The Signs Of A Failing Project Knowing when to pull the plug on a failing project is never easy, yet the signs of impending disaster are often present at the outset when best practice can increase the chances of success. There are many examples of very large projects in the public eye …
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