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Management Skills: Communication, Delegation, Feedback, etc!
Tips for The First Time Middle Manager
Being a first time manager is exciting, challenging and if one's self-leadership isn't in check it can be lonely. Here are a few tips to be a successful first time middle manager. Feedback Feedback, both positive and constructive, can be quite tokenistic and...
Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk … LISTEN!
80% of all workplace issues are due to communication issues. Listening is a part of communication, and it is one action, when implemented, managers can really make a difference. How do you feel when someone doesn’t listen to you? You feel rejected, ignored, not...
VLOG: Finance for the Non-Financial Manager
When you take on your first management position, the focus is mostly on shifting from individual contributor to people leader. Understanding the finances related to your team or department is not usually top on the priority list until budget time or a review...
Telling Can Repel Productivity
Telling, irrespective of the intention, often has the counter-intuitive impact on engagement and therefore slowing attempts at boosting productivity. Asking builds engagement because asking invites participation. Coaching has a long history, which can be traced...
? STOP? Multitasking!
If you want to get your work done faster, stop multitasking! Did you know that you lose up to 40% of productivity when you multitask? 40%. Can you afford to lose 40%? I know I can't. One of the things when it comes to multitasking is that we're actually really,...
Social Media and Procrastination
Social Media and procrastination: it's about intention then execution for boosting productivity. I love social media, I love how it constantly shows us how to disrupt, start, finish, execute, drive, think, laugh, cry, connect.I also see social media being a...
Don’t Have Time to Delegate? Think Again! Delegation Impacts Your Productivity
Delegating is an incredibly valuable tool for your management toolkit but it is one that so many are so hesitant to use. It's also one of the biggest tools to be misused and then avoided because,I tried delegating but it just doesn't work.It's just easier if I do...
Productivity: How can he be so unmotivated?
Does this should familiar to you?:He speaks as though he understands the importance of getting the work done, that is, providing the service to the client, but when we it comes to our weekly meetings, the work’s not done. When I ask what happened, why work is not...
Productivity via More Beautiful Questions!
Having all the answers is one of the pressures so many experience as they lead or manage their staff and team. You got promoted because you were seen as someone with the right answer or having the solutions and ideas. Your staff come to you because the...
Quality Feedback
Right at the moment you give someone feedback often the last thing you’re thinking of is how you would feel if you received this information in the way it is being delivered. Safety in giving quality feedback means first starting with how you would feel if you were...
5 Ways to Better Employee Experience
What made you leave your last job? What made you leave any job? I've left jobs because: I was abused by the boss. I was not challenged enough. The role within the service was dumbed down and opportunities to grow in the role were cut off. Organisation-wide change...
Productivity via Storytelling
Watching yourself on video or in photos is always valuable for learning, you get an insight into your body language as you deliver a speech, pitch or presentation. Clearly I can be quite animated.I told a personal story in order to connect with the audience on...