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Action Plan: Get Networking to Improve Business
Maintaining your Network can be a powerful tool in your career development....
Action Plan: Learning to Say No
Learning to Say is an important skill in Business. It means developing your assertiveness to a level that you can focus on what is important....
All About Communicating as a Manager
An effective manager communicates well with his or her staff. Good communication is about giving information, or gathering information, in an appropriate manner, to the right people, at the right time...
All About Managing Remote Teams
In today’s business world, teams are often likely to have members that are remote from one another. How can a manager successfully manage a remote team?...
Are You in Control of Your Team?
How can a manager stay in control of their team, while still giving them independence and encouraging initiative taking?...
Are You Ready for a Management Career?
Are you considering a Role in Management? Ask yourself these questions to help you decide if you're ready to become a manager....
Basic Project Management Skills for Managers
Basic principles of project management that can be useful to all managers....
Basic Risk Management for Managers
Managing Risks is a necessary part of any Managers jobs. Whether considering risks to business operations or risks of a particular piece of work or project, managing risks is a necessity of business....
Becoming a Leader That Others Look to
Highly successful leaders inspire and motivate those around them to achieve....
Brainstorming in Business
Brainstorming can be useful in business for generating ideas and coming up with new and innovative approaches or solutions....
Building a Performance Plan
A Performance Plan is a blueprint to help your staff pave their career. It provides them with measurable objectives and should incorporate both professional and personal goals....
Building Effective Relationships with your Employees
What is an effective relationship with your employees? It is not one where you always getting along, but it is one where both parties feel able to raise concerns, where communication is open, and wher...
Building Your Management Career: Action Plan
This article can assist you in building an Action Plan for moving into Management...
Can you be Manager and Friend?
As a manager, having effective relationships with your staff is important to success, however can you also be a friend with your staff?...
Charity Work and Management Experience: A Case Study
Gaining management experience by working as a volunteer...
Contingency Planning
Contingency Planning is about planning for when things go wrong. It isn’t pleasant and it can be tempting to try and ignore it. But Contingency Planning is a necessary part of a managers role....
Dealing with Inappropriate Behaviour
One of the most unpleasant tasks a manager faces is dealing with inappropriate behaviour. However, the guidelines below should help you manage the situation effectively....
Delivering Bad News to your Employees
As a manager, it is likely that you will need to give you staff bad news on occasions. This isn’t an easy task, however the following tips can provide some guidance in how to handle this, sometimes di...
Developing your IT Skills as a Manager
As a business Manager, sometimes IT skills can seem in contradiction with some of the key aspects of the management role. How can you build your IT skills to help you be a better manager?...
Developing your Management Style
Developing a Management Style is not something that a manager acquires through training. An experienced manager understands the various styles of management, and can apply different styles to differen...
Earning Respect in Business
Respect in Business is essential if you want your career to succeed....
Effective Interviewing Techniques
As a manager, getting your interview techniques well-polished will not only save you time during the recruitment process, it will greatly contribute to ensuring you get the right team....
Empowering your Team to be Their Best
Basic tips for a manager to empower a variety of business teams to perform at their best....
Facts and Figures: Women in Management
Recent Information on Women in Management...
Helping Employees Solve Their Own Problems
As a manager, we are there to help and support our employees, however we need to balance the amount of support we give them with the initiative we would like them to take....
Helping your Staff Cope with Change
Change is becoming an ever more frequent reality in the workplace; no sooner have we adjusted to one change than another is upon us. Yet the more we are expected to adjust to change it seems the less ...
How and When to Delegate
Delegation is a necessary skill of an effective manager; it frees up a manager’s time, allowing them the capacity to concentration on the matters that really require their attention....
How to be Objective When Appraising Performance
In appraising employee performance, it is essential to be objective. This can sometimes not be as easy as it sounds!...
How to Build a Cohesive Team
The benefits of having a cohesive team are clear, but how can we, as managers, create the right environment for groups to thrive?...
How to Conduct a Performance Review
Reviewing performance is one of the most important tasks of a manager (who has staff). One aspect of reviewing performance is writing up the performance report and plan, but another equally important...
How to Conduct Effective Meetings
As a manager, meetings can become a way of life. They can all too often feel like they consume too much time and deliver too few results. But meetings are a necessary way to communicate, so how can we...
How to Deal with Colleagues Now You're the Manager
It can be an uncomfortable situation where you are promoted to become the manager of a previous colleague. How can you better manager this situation for a positive outcome?...
How to Give Constructive Feedback
Feedback is very important to your staff. If provided in a constructive manner, feedback can give them direction and help improve their performance....
How to Manage Change Effectively as a Manager
Change is inevitable in business and, as a manager, it is something that we have to cope with on a daily basis. With the rapid pace of change, which only seems to be increasing, how do we stay on top ...
How to Recruit the Right People
Advise on managing the recruitment process and hiring the right person for a role....
How to Spot a Potential Manager Early
A talented manager is a multi-faceted manager. They only hire the best people and they foster an environment of high performance, and equally important, they can spot potential in others, includin...
How to Use Coaching Effectively as a Manager
Coaching is a management technique that, when used appropriately, can be very effective in developing your staff and improving your management skills....
Increase Your Team's Morale
Increase your team's morale and it is likely to also increase your team's productivity....
Increasing Your Productivity
Time is precious in business. While your at work, it's important that your productivity is high, hopefully then avoiding excessive overtime....
Making Decisions as a Manager
There are few jobs that require someone to make no decisions, so what is different when you become a Manager?...
Managing a Poor Performance Team
Managers will often have to address poor performance in an individual, but what if you have a poor performing team; how should manage such a situation?...
Managing Conflict in the Workplace
Conflict will occur in the workplace and, as a manager, it is part of your role to manage it effectively. Where possible, encourage the people involved to find a mutually acceptable solution, however ...
Managing Culturally Diverse Teams
With businesses becoming ever more global, people moving more frequently and working internationally, and remote teams becoming more commonplace, managing a culturally diverse teams is necessary for m...
Managing the Change Portfolio
What is a Change Portfolio and how do you manage it?...
Reducing Stress in the Workplace
Stress in the workplace negatively impacts productivity, de-motivates staff and can result in high staff turnover. An important aspect of management is understanding the signs of stress in your workp...
Setting Team Objectives
Teams need to understand what their shared goals are, what the vision is that they are trying to achieve, and they need to be able to work together to achieve this....
The Basics of Good Project Planning
What makes a Good Project Plan? It isn’t fancy software and it’s not colourful wall charts, it’s the knowledge that the plan is based on accurate and complete information. Sounds easy? It's not!...
The Challenges Facing Junior Women Managers
A third of managers are women. Junior women managers face many challenges as they move through their career...
The Importance of Motivating your Employees
What does it mean to motivate your staff? Motivate isn’t something that you can make someone do; as a manager the best you can do is create an environment in which people are able to motivate themselv...
To Manage or Not to Manage?
To Manage or Not to Manage? Surely this is the role of the manager: To Manage! But there are times and situations where a Manager needs to step back from a situation and not manage....
Top 10 Qualities of an Effective Manager
What distinguished a great manager for a good manager? The top 10 qualities than can help a manager be more effective....
Top 10 Tips for Improving Team Morale
How to get your team to behave like a united football team!...
Understanding the Business Case
Managers are often involved in the approval of business cases, therefore it is helpful to understand the purpose of the business case and the impact it has to the project....
Understanding your Corporate Network
A Corporate Network is a similar diagram to the organisation chart, however it captures different information and is a powerful tool for any manager to understand their business, or their area of the ...
What are Key Performance Indicators?
Successful businesses have a mission; strategic objectives to help guide and shape the business and to achieve the required results. Key Performance Indicators are the key factors that indicator the h...
What Does it Mean to be a Project Sponsor?
What does it mean to be a Project Sponsor? And what are you expected to provide in this role?...
What Does Onshoring, Offshoring, Nearshoring Mean?
OffShoring, OnShoring and Nearshoring is the transfer of a business process to another location, either another country or locally but another location....
What does RACI mean?
Delegation is an important aspect of a Manager's role and the RACI model can help identify roles and responsibilities....
What is a Communication Plan?
Communication is something that goes on all the time in business. We communicate over the phone, via email, in person, we have big team announcements and one-to-one meetings, business is very much abo...
What is ITIL?
A basic understanding of ITIL can help a business manager better communicate with her or her IT function....
What is Six Sigma?
A basic introduction to the business concept of Six Sigma, a business process improvement methodology....
What is Strategic Change?
Planning and implementing strategic change is an important aspect to the management role. Strategic change is a term that is frequently used in business, but what does it really mean?...
What to do When a Project Goes Wrong
In a perfect world we would plan our projects and they would all follow according to the schedule. But perfect worlds are for fairy tales and the project world contains more gremlins than fairies!...
What's Different Now You're Management?
A promotion to Manager typically means a change in your job description and responsibilities, but there are other more subtle changes that take place....
When Someone Isn't Right for the Job
Firing a person, or moving a person into a new role, is one of the most stressful tasks that a manager does. So what can you do, not only to make the task easier, but to help the person move onto a n...
When to Involve Human Resources
Some basic guidelines to help you decide whether you need to involve Human Resources....
When to Use Email, Phone or Face-to-Face Communication
Communicating in business tends to fall into three categories: email, phone, or face-to-face....
Working with Senior Executives
One of the changes that inevitably result from a promotion into the ranks of management is the necessity to work more frequently and in more depth, with Senior Executives....