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Owing Your Mistakes
How to Take Ownership of Your Errors When You Make Mistakes in Management Owing Your Mistakes Take it from a manager – every manager is aware that they are not perfect. Take comfort in the fact that all managers make mistakes sometimes but always have
6 Leadership Trends For 2019
6 Leadership Trends For 2019 New year, new goals! When it comes to improving as a manager or a leader, there are many good times to improve your leadership. And whilst the best time was yesterday, the second-best time is now – happy new year!
The Influence of the Empowered Learner
The Influence of the Empowered Learner What or who is an empowered learner? The empowered learner is a behaviour. It is determination, commitment, resilience, a growth mindset and most important accountability. A growth mindset will see development opportunities in stretch tasks, and see formal learning
Managing Your Energy Instead of Your Time
Why You Should be Managing Your Energy Instead of Your Time Workloads and office demands are never consistent but the general assumption is that your work hours are. But when was the last time you stuck to your contracted hours? With work being so closely
Are You Delegating or Abdicating?
Delegation Vs Abdication – Are You Delegating or Abdicating? Most small to medium business owners are ambitious entrepreneurs which means, when their business idea is successful, making the transition from solo worker to manager can be tricky! Learning the balance between delegation and abdication is
How to Measure Employee Engagement
How to Measure Employee Engagement Do you know how engaged your employees are? Since engagement is an emotion that is hard to quantify, probably not! A certain level of emotional intelligence is needed to try to quantify employee engagement so, for the most part, you’ll
Can You Job Share at a Senior Level
Can You Job Share at a Senior Level There are many benefits to a senior job share. A steadily growing number of employers are starting to consider allowing their employees to job share at senior level to allow for greater flexibility in more demanding positions.
Does laziness really exist?
Does laziness really exist? I have had a few conversations recently where the employee was said to be under performing or certainly not performing to the potential and were incorrectly labelled as lazy from their boss. Confirming this to the employee didn’t amend their behaviour
How to Stay Motivated as a Manager
Stay Motivated as a Manager Most people think managers are highly motivated – it’s their default setting. And that’s how they got to top in the first place. The real truth is that, just like everyone else, someone who has reached the heady heights of