All of us report to a boss and we need to work effectively with them. But not all managers are good managers and it can be frustrating working for a difficult boss. (more…)
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Unleash Your Middle Managers
The role of the middle manager is to help the senior management team implement the company strategy: they are the oil that keeps everything working. However, this important level of management is often taken for granted and left under trained. Unleashing the potential in your middle managers can inspire them to raise their game, so…
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What Tomorrow’s Workplace Will look Like
Globalisation, diversity, an aging workforce and changes in technology are just some of the many changes that have already affected the way we work. In this article we take a look at what the workplace of the future may look like. (more…)
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Engage your Managers to Engage your Employees
[caption id="attachment_2449" align="alignright" width="300"] Disengaged managers create disengaged staff[/caption] It is well documented that employees are far more likely to be engaged if their managers are engaged. However, a recent Gallup survey in the US showed that nearly 60% of managers are not engaged or are actively disengaged. Whilst the UK may not be as…
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Influential Women
The popular radio 4 programme “Woman’s Hour” holds an annual event where it sets a panel of judges the difficult task of identifying the top ten most influential women in the UK. The ability to influence and persuade people is an important business skill, so what does the 2015 list reveal about this important subject?…
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Managing Your Emotions
Good managers, it is often said, must keep their emotions out of any situation. But research shows that suppressing your negative emotions is likely to make things worse rather than better. When we try to suppress our emotions the amygdala, which is the brain’s emotional centre, is actually stimulated. So rather than suppressing our negative…
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Why Success Slows Sales People Down
There is an interesting phenomenon that you can observe in sales people. If the morning has proved extraordinarily successful for them, they tend to expend a little less effort on closing sales in the afternoon. They may call one customer less than they had planned, or show less persistence in securing an order. Remarkable! Normally…
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Improving Team Productivity
Talk to anyone in work and they will tell you that they are busy. Yet there has been much coverage in the recent press, on TV and on the radio about the latest ONS statistics that the productivity of the UK workforce is too low. Indeed, the official statistics show that other G7 countries are…
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How to be a Manager
Here is a “tongue in cheek” look at some common management mistakes. We are sure that you would never do these! (more…)
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CPD Information – Part 2
In CPD information - part 1 we looked at what CPD is, what you need to do to create your own CPD plan and the types of activities that can be used for CPD. In part two we look at the specific CPD requirements of a number of the leading professional bodies and how they…
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