Tag: management
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Management – It is like a family
As a manager looking at your team as your family can often help you to find achievement in your team; being the manager is like the parent, you need to learn the needs of your ‘children’. It is not said or framed in a way I am belittling your team members, instead you need to…
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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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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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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…
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Knowing Your Worth
I have met many people who either over price or under-price themselves. Problem becomes they find getting a job challenging, regardless of which way they go. I have found a few tools online which can help you gauge ‘market value’ for the position you are going for. It generally gives a minimum maximum and a…
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Transforming Aggression to Assertion
Understanding the fundamental difference between aggression and assertion is important especially as a manager, but critical to being a human. Aggression – (psychol) a hostile or destructive mental attitude or behaviour Assertion -> asserting – to state with assurance, confidence, or force; affirm; aver: Being assertive is firm, often will come from a place of confidence; knowing you are correct and standing firm to that belief. Aggressive is often from a…
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Why are the crumbs left?
When we work in a team, often we see all the best ‘biscuits’ get taken. Sometimes the mangled ones are left and sometimes it’s just the broken pieces. I am not referring to the food as such; I am referring to the team workload or tasks. It’s like the packet of ‘Family Favourites’ it has…