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Mentoring – Know what you can offer
It is important when you decide you are going to be a mentor to someone; that you understand what it is you have to offer the individual. It is critical to also understand what they want you to help them with; many mentors will in their first ‘meet’ discuss what the focus will be. Another…
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Picture Frame: Are you getting the Answers you seek?
When you feel you aren’t getting the answers you like to your question; look at how you are framing your question. Often we feel we don’t make progress and get the expected outcome; when really our question is being answered; we are more often not phrasing or asking the question we mean to. Not just…
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Management Series – Value and Importance of Staff
Understanding each individual that makes up your team is critical to your team’s overall success; realising their value and importance as a ‘part of your big picture’; you don’t have to be best friends or even friends with your staff (sometimes the saying ‘don’t work with friends’ is there for a reason). Learning what drives…
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Owning Your Interview
When you first are preparing for an interview what do you do? What processes are you thinking about? You need to clear your mind; be free. Always best to work out in advance the outfit you feel confident in, do some basic research into the company, and possibly look at the people interviewing you on…
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Sell yourself not be a sell-out – ‘finding your passion’
What are your best attributes; maybe it’s your way of analytical thinking; or the different view you tend to see things from in discussion. Whatever it is you need to find that thing that you are passionate about; work out this ‘advantage to be able to sell yourself; your key attribute sets you apart will…
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Management Series – Legal Requirements of Managers
Increasingly I am noticing mid-management who aren’t aware of the legal obligations; how many hold their own indemnity insurance? At the end of the day if a legal contest comes into play; a company will not try to ‘justify’ if the laws are stacked against the company. In the best interest of the company they…
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Presenting like a Professional
Many of us don’t like being up front leading or presenting to others, it’s a fear some have more than others; however we all have out hesitations and reservations. Human beings don’t like having the whole room focussed on us, we do anything to avoid being the centre of attention. This is why when you…
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Mentoring in the Workplace
The importance of mentoring and developing your skill goes all the way to the top of any company, when we look at Richard Branson, Tony Robbins and the like, they have mentors themselves. Mentoring is like training, we are always learning new things every day, so why do most of us not have mentors? All…
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Peer to Peer Training
Why does it not work? Most of us played ‘Chinese Whispers’ growing up, this is part of the problem to do with Peer to Peer training. As a company your methods and procedures become hazed and washed by the fact there is no longer a structure and standard in place; this then creates issues in…
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Why do staff leave?
If you are a manager and you cannot answer this then how can you improve your business? There are many reasons people don’t leave, and many I will not cover because they are very specific. The main reasons people leave: Better offer elsewhere and lack of business support are generally the two most common. There…