How Well Do You Delegate?
On many of the management training courses I have delivered, delegation comes up as something that most managers believe they should be doing more of. I'm therefore sure many of you will feel the same way. Delegation is simply giving another person the authority and resources to do a job yo...
What Is Leadership?
How would you define Leadership in your own words? Expert John Maxwell defines it as 'Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less'. However, I think that includes just one of three words that should be in any definition. What about you? How would you define it? So, according to leaders...
Value Your Employees-The Christmas Season Is A Good Time To Do It
One of the great needs of each of us as humans is to be valued. We want to feel that people care and appreciate us, whether it is our spouses or partners, our parents or children. So, it is also equally true that people want to be valued at their place of work, where so much of their time, ...
In Business, First Impressions STILL Count
When it comes to meeting people, we have all heard of the saying “Don’t judge a book by the cover”, and we all know it to be true. How many of us became friends with someone at school, college or the workplace who, when we first met, we did not like? However, once we got to know them through one mea...
Five Tips For Effective Delegation
For the last 13 years I have been training managers to be better and more effective at what they do. One of the issues they often have, one that comes up time and again, is that many feel they do not delegate enough. And when they do, they can often miss some key aspects to it that will make it much...
What Is The Point Of Managers?
What is the point of managers? Why does an organisation need them anyway? Given the somewhat negative view of managers, I wonder how you might answer that question? In the past, managers on courses I have run have said various things, such as ‘to ensure employees do their jobs and fulfil th...