Staff who do not take the initiative are very frustrating and time consuming to manage. There are a number of reasons that stops staff taking the initiative. The manager is in a great place to remove these reasons and encourage staff who don’t take the initiative to be a lot more proactive. I share 4 powerful ways to energise employees who do not take the initiative --- --- Staff who don't take the initiative are a real anchor on team performance. As a mana...

I am sharing 5 proven actions to transform poor teams at work quickly & effectively. That is take the WORST team in a company and transform it into one of the BEST teams. Any manager with people skills can implement these actions to significantly improve team performance. I share lots of practical tips that you can put action straight away. --- --- How to transform the worst team in a company? It has to start with building team trust in you,...

Struggling with Boss? I share 3 vital approaches to transform your most important work relationships The worst mistake in boss relationships is to do nothing or try to ignore the situation. Taking the right action will transform their perception of you. Want more respect, more appreciation, more praise, better development opportunities, a bigger bonus, a promotion … take these actions to transform your most important relationship at work. --- --- When you are s...

Managing effort or managing outcomes – which is best? Get it right and you get a ton of benefits – better team performance, happier staff, more time plus more. Get this right more than you peers, and you will enjoy better team performance, better pay and bonuses, higher status and more. Get it wrong and team performance suffers, you have unmotivated staff and you have a lot less time available personally. I share 7 factor and approaches to maximise the benefits you g...

Having better work relationships makes being at work a lot nicer, more enjoyable and certainly a lot more rewarding. I share 5 tips to have better work relationships, to increase your likeability, confidence and influence. Take actions today to create better work relationships! --- --- The first action to build better relationships at work is to think about other people and not yourself. We all have very busy lives and spend a lot of time focused on ourselves. ...

Deliver what you promise at work, and you will probably be happy and very successful in whatever career you choose. I share 4 vital stages to beating expectations, week after week. Beat expectations and you build a ton of trust, colleagues want to work with you, bosses appreciate you and you get the best tasks and projects to work on. ---- --- Before you set expectations to beat, take time to mentally plan out how you will deliver what you are being asked. Don’t say y...

Stop being nice at work. Managers cannot be nice and still increase performance personally and of their team. I explain what managers should do instead and take you through 7 actions to stop being nice at work will helping improve team performance. --- --- Leaders and managers cant be nice and lead a team effectively. There are so many difficult decisions and situation where being nice is detrimental to you and your team. There are a ton of problems with being too nice...

Losing your job is very traumatic and very stressful, not to mention painful for your bank balance. I share 14 signs you are losing your job to look out for. I also share 10 actions you should take especially if you see signs you may be fired. Taking these actions will improve your job security --- --- Firstly, I list out 10 signs you may be losing your job due to your personal approach or performance. Looking out for these signs enables you to take action to stop being pu...

Messing up at work or making mistakes at work happens to us all. We all want to avoid making big mistakes at work. What is really important is what we do after making errors at work. I share the 5 best actions after messing up at work or making mistakes at work. Create confidence and trust and get lot of help to rectify any mistakes. These are the best ways for recovering from making mistakes at work. --- --- It is always a good idea to make less mistakes at wo...

Are you making one or more of the 4 worst mistakes managers make with difficult employees? I share the 4 worse mistakes managers make when handling challenging staff so you can avoid making them. Learning how to manage difficult employees is one of the most critical skillsets to build to have a very successful career in management. --- Our FREE webinar on “The Quickest & Best Approach to Remove People Problems from any Team” click here https://enhance...

Why managers bully their team in such great number with more than 50% of bullying being carried out by bosses. Surveys state that around 30-40% of employees have been bullied by bosses or those in authority. I don’t believe that all these managers enjoy hurting others or putting others down or are that insecure to regularly bully. There must be more to why managers bully staff. I share three suggestions for companies to action to reduce performance crippling bully in ...

Are you leading a team or group of individuals? How much does it really matter in performance terms? These are the questions being answered. Every ambition manager should be very interested in increasing team performance because this is how your personal performance is being measured. Find out about the performance of team vs group at work. --- --- Leading a team or a group of individuals can be the different between hitting targets or missing them. It is easy to say that ...

How many employees for each manager? Don’t apply a one-size-fits-all approach when considering staff numbers per manager. Do so is likely to be detrimental for your business and team & manager retention. I share 5 crucial drivers of team size for each manager. --- --- The first factors in employee numbers per manager is the pace of change within a business, function or team. The higher the pace of change, the lower the staff per manager ratio should be. Employees...

I share 5 ways to keep your boss happy with better communication. You don’t have to work harder. You don’t have to pander to your boss. Just use these communication tips to keep your manager happy. ---- ---- How to have a conversation with your boss starts with looking for and understanding their communication preferences. How to communicate with your boss should be one of the first things you sus out. Think about how often, methods and styles with communicatin...

In this manager training success guide we cover some of the key factors to deliver effective management training. I share the best managers to give management training to, who you should train first, how to measure the benefits and 6 core skills to focus on first. --- --- Why training is important for managers? Managing a diverse team with different strengths, interests, energy levels and more is not an easy job as any manager knows. Good managers will multiply the v...

How to balance boss and staff, especially when they have conflicting demands is not easy. For managers to avoid feeling stuck in between these two important groups for your success, I share 3 tactics that every manager should use. Make you like as a manager more enjoyable and professionally successful by keeping your boss and your team very happy with you! --- --- How to deliver for both boss and team starts with understand what both parties want. If you don’t...

Overcome the fears that stop you giving feedback and you open the doors to a ton of benefits as a manager. Giving feedback to help your team member builds trust, increases performance, develops and a lot more. What stops managers giving feedback – the fears we all have of annoying, upsetting, of damaging relationships. I share a tried and test approach to build your feedback skills no matter where you are in your career. --- --- What stops you giving feedback to your...

Build great teamwork fast! I share 6 ways to create great teams quickly. This have been tried and tested with many teams, in top companies and when transforming the performance of the worst team in multiple companies. Most managers lead a group of individuals, not a team. Groups of individuals typically work alongside each other, doing their own work. There is chat but not a lot of in depth discussion, not much collaboration and little joint problem solving. Use these tips to buil...

Making decisions at work and having good decisions making skills are highly prized by all organisations. I have 9 questions to ask yourself when making decisions at work. These form a framework, a decision making process, that will keep you making GOOD decisions at work. --- --- The first question to ask when making decisions at work is “How much time do I have to make the decision?” With a day, there is lots that you can do and a lot of questions to ask yourself when making dec...

Working with an insecure boss can be very bad news for your development, your happiness at work and your career progress IF you don’t know how to handle the situation. It is easy to find yourself on the end of put downs, criticism, and undermining when you don’t know how to work with an insecure boss. I share 5 actions of insecure managers and then 5 key actions to take to gain the support and trust of an insecure manager. --- --- I take you through 5 actions of insecure leaders. Knowing the ...