Category: Management
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BECOME MORE PRODUCTIVE BY DOING LESS…
Do you ever feel like you have just got too much on your plate? Every time the phone rings, or you check your emails, or someone from your team walks into your office, you end up with more things to do. You find yourself working back late or taking work home. Your sleep starts to…
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MY NEW BOSS IS BULLYING ME…
The new boss has just started and while we are all going to miss Alison, the team is feeling pretty positive about things and looking forward to what this new guy, Michael, is going to bring to the table. We’ve come through COVID relatively unscathed, we’ve enjoyed working flexibly and we’ve continued to deliver against…
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HOW IS YOUR TEAM MOJO?
How are things in your team these days? Is everybody pumped and firing on all cylinders every day? Or are things a little flat like the party balloons from Susan’s birthday morning tea last week? Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers, has 5 tips for leaders who want to inspire and motivate their teams. 1. Utilise…
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5 TIPS FOR NEW MANAGERS
Congratulations !! You’ve just won the job and now you have your own team to manage. Its exciting isn’t it? You get to set the direction and make the decisions now, and it is what you have been working towards for a while. You have finally got your own office and your name on the…
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INVESTING IN YOUR PEOPLE
There is an old joke about the dangers of investing time, money and effort into your people… CFO says: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave?” CEO says: “What happens if we don’t, and they stay?” I’m not sure why people think this is a joke because the reality of…
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IT’S A TEAM MEETING NOT A CHRISTMAS DINNER
I don’t know if you’ve ever had one of those family gatherings where the extended family gets together for the first time in a long time, and nobody has either forgiven or forgotten the debacle of the last one? Maybe it’s just my family? I remember one particular Christmas many years ago where my Dad…
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HOW TO BUILD PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE TEAMS
I was watching something on tv the other day and there was an interaction between two colleagues in the workplace. The first said that “for all intensive purposes” what he had done was the right thing to do. His colleague immediately jumped in and corrected him saying that the phrase he was looking for was…
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WHY YOU NEED A CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER…
You won’t get any argument from me about the importance of the various corporate functions that deliver organisational performance and success. Your C-suite will probably reflect those roles that are most valued by the organisation. You will likely have a Chief Executive Officer (or similar,) some business line Executive Directors or General Managers, and then…
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THE OPPOSITE OF LEADERSHIP
Let’s start with a hard truth: Many people in leadership or management roles got promoted to to these positions based on either their individual job performance or tenure. It is unlikely that they were selected for their natural ability to effectively lead, serve, and engage other human beings to be and do their best. The…
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“PEOPLE DON’T LEAVE JOBS…”
The old cliché about people not leaving jobs but leaving managers exists because its true.
The Workplace Coach 