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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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