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Why should anyone be managed by YOU?

Aug 24, 2017 | Business Skills Training, Leadership Development, Management Skills

There are plenty of highly competent managers on the planet, and you are no doubt one of them. You manage people because you’re good at it, and you got to where you are by showing the appropriate level of competence in the various disciplines of achieving results...

Leader versus Manager. Confused?

Jan 9, 2017 | Leadership Development, Leadership Skills Training, Management Skills

Last week I coached an experienced sales leader as part of the follow up on a Leadership Development course he attended. We were getting along fine, finding much to agree on over how dysfunctional the human race is becoming, the immigration crisis etc., and then he...

Can you coach? No, seriously. Can you coach?

Dec 11, 2015 | Coaching Skills, Management Skills

If you were to ask a sample of managers how important coaching is to success in their role, what do you think their answer would be? I’ve worked with thousands of them over the years on Leadership and Management skills programmes, so I can state with some...

The dreaded Annual Appraisal. Is the writing finally on the wall?

Sep 24, 2015 | Management Skills

At last! Could the end finally be in sight for that annual ritual dreaded by both managers and staff: the Annual Appraisal? You know the one: the meeting you both hope will be over quickly, in which the manager loads up her gun with lots of surprise feedback ready...

I bet you’re not as smart as you think you are

Jan 23, 2015 | Creativity and Innovation, Management Skills

So you think you’re smart. You make logical well balanced decisions, and don’t let your intuition get in the way of logic. That’s you: business minded, professional you might say. Yeah right. Let’s try a little experiment. It’s...

How not to delegate.

Nov 13, 2014 | Leadership Skills Training, Management Skills

As Christmas approaches and stores fill up with scary amounts of extra stock that they hope will all magically vanish by Christmas Eve, I find myself thinking about the time when I was put in charge of stock ordering for a major business. They delegated to me too...

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Why should anyone be managed by YOU?

Leader versus Manager. Confused?

Can you coach? No, seriously. Can you coach?

The dreaded Annual Appraisal. Is the writing finally on the wall?

I bet you’re not as smart as you think you are

How not to delegate.

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