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Hello & welcome to the blog page of the website
Tweet I hope you enjoy checking out the whole site. With respect to this blog, I have set it up to provide a range of support, tips, learning, insights, ideas, bragging, announcing, complaining,...
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Managing for the First Time
TweetHave you employed or promoted someone to his or her first time in a managerial role? Are you in a managerial role for the first time? Here are some quick tips for the first-time manager! F...
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5 Quick Tips for First-Time Managers
Tweet 1. Employees want to be told how they are going and what is expected of them. 2. One big complaint across many companies is lack of communication; consider what you can do to improve...
View ArticleWhat ‘should-a’ been done!
TweetAs we look back on situations, our hindsight is often sharp as a knife, we often hear ourselves, and others, say “What should-a happened was …..“. For example, when giving feedback to an employee...
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My MANAGEMENT SKILLS Coaching Program
TweetFor those who detest the blog posts that are all about the sale, let me say “I hear you!” I switch off very quickly when a blog post is actually sales dipped in a cheap veneer of giving valuable...
View ArticleSpelling Out Delegation
TweetAs a training exercise, I sometimes give the group a management role and ask them to devise a plan or list of tips relating to that management role, here is one of the most popular ones: D Decide...
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Benefits of Delegation
TweetIn this post, the second in the series of four discussing delegation, I thought I’d encourage (maybe even convince) managers to consider the value of delegation by highlighting some of its...
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Tracking Back Management Skills
TweetWhile searching LinkedIn I came across a post that was in the ‘LinkedIn Answers’ section that really piqued my interest. The author of the post, Ruet Schwartz-Hebron, claimed that we could...
View ArticleManagement Delete
TweetI was listening intently on a webinar, where the presenter was talking about pitches and sales; she stated the following statistic (I’ll paraphrase): … Decision makers take approximately 2.7...
View ArticleManagers, mind the gap!
TweetWhile standing on the train station platform waiting, waiting, waiting I realised I was staring at the ground and more precisely, staring at the message ‘mind the gap’. It’s bizarre where...
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More Issues Than Vogue
TweetSo how do you handle that one person in the team who needs to wear this everyday (if for no other reason than a public service warning to the others): (Photo source: Pinterest) Issues - My...
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Management Coaching Moment #11
TweetAll the names changed to save the innocent, guilty and goofy When we met, Jean, a new manager, was expressing a major concern for taking on a specialised task within her new role. Jean had bravely...
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There is no negative feedback
TweetI’m known for getting on my soapbox when it comes to quality feedback. I believe all feedback, delivered well, is positive. When mistakes are made, performance has dropped, sabotaging is in play,...
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P&M 16: Renaming this episode Feedback Can Be Fun!
Do you dread the annual, quarterly or half-yearly performance review meetings? Do you tense up at having to give feedback? Would you rather avoid or ignore than having to speak to someone about their...
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