Being a middle manager is difficult and it’s getting more so. Decades ago, middle managers were just there to control and coordinate the work of others. But as technology can now lend a hand with this – improving productivity and online coordination and monitoring, there’s pressure on middle managers to perform a huge number of […]
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Does managing ever make you feel exhausted? Are you fed up with directing your team towards solutions that they should know exist? What if there was, at least sometimes, another way? I would guess that what I’m about to say isn’t new to you. But if you took a step back and moved into a
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In conversation with one of my coaching clients recently, they made a remark that stuck with me: “If I gain one thing from this year, I want it to be resilience. I’ve had enough ****ing opportunities to develop it after all.” This resonated for two reasons. Firstly, because I think by and large we’re all
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There are some office activities which convert very easily to an online environment: meetings with a clear agenda, collaborating over document editing, and conveying information. A good blend of having the right technology and the tasks not being too abstract helps. But one area that can leave work teams feeling stressed and confused is how
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Influence – what does it mean to leaders? Influence is, in the opinion of many commentators and researchers, the lifeblood of leadership. If you want to be a great leader, you need to be great at influencing. Influence is, after all, the ability to affect change in actions, behaviours and decisions. Another way of thinking
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Find out how Smart Collaboration can benefit your business performance. I am delighted to have been awarded accreditation to use The Smart Collaboration Accelerator with my clients. This is a superb, research-based assessment that is used to guide leaders and teams through the process of understanding their behavioural tendencies, in turn using this insight
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How are you guarding against the potential onset of skills fade? Working from home continues to be the reality for so many leaders and their teams (particularly those of you who work in offices), and looks as though it might be for some time. Under constantly revised government guidelines, the ways in which we
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What do we mean when we say the leadership sweet-spot? It’s the overlapping point where the expectations of the company, your team, and your own, all match up. To get mathematical, if you were to use a Venn Diagram, it’s the point where the three circles overlap. So how do you find the sweet-spot when
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Lockdown has brought a chance for reflection for many of us. Perhaps not as much as we thought – from what I can gather people haven’t wiled away hours in a sunny armchair contemplating the meaning of life. However, we have been given the opportunity to reflect on how life now looks different, and many
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So much leadership development fails at the first hurdle because it focuses on individuals, skills or culture – but not all three at once. For interventions to work, they need to take into account the whole picture. Leadership training and development tends to fall into three categories. Pause to reflect on the leadership programmes you’ve run
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