Self-confidence may be an issue for either you or members of your team from time to time. This is only natural. Such temporary losses of self-confidence are probably the result their reactions to events in the earliest years of their lives. They may not even be able to clearly recall what happened. All they know [...]
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NLP practitioners learn to “chunk down” large problems into small “bite-sized” and more manageable chunks. One of the major challenges of managing in any type of organisation is the problems that have to be managed. Without the challenge of solving problems the fun would go out of a lot of the work. But some problems [...]
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From 1945 to 1948 General Douglas MacArthur was the virtual ruler of Japan. He was so worried about the behaviour of the demoralised people and their failure to rebuild their industrial base that he called for help from Business Process Managers from the USA. Amongst the most influential of the US imports was William Edwards [...]
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An interesting way to think about management, and how to do it better, is to look at the behaviour of managers in other, unrelated professions. Consider for a moment the behaviour of a Master Chef or, to give him his proper title, Chef de Cuisine. This is surely one of the toughest, most time-constrained professions, [...]
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Food for the brain is like food for the body, little and often works best. Herein lies a very important lesson for managers. Imagine if you were to adopt a new style of eating whereby you just ate one enormous meal once a month. Do you think that this would be a good way to [...]
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Management guru Brian Tracy is undoubtedly a highly influential person and he always comes across as a very nice person, so we should take notice when he advises us to: “Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.” Work places can be stressful and hectic with driven people seeking [...]
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The biggest mistake an ambitious manager and leader can make is to fail to tell people how good he/she is. Oh yes, I know what you’re thinking – “I don’t want to gain the reputation for being a ‘big head’, someone who is always blowing his/her own trumpet.” I didn’t say you had to be [...]
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Another quotation from Vince Lombardi inspired this article: “ If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?” Make no mistake those above you in your organisation are keeping the score. They are looking all the time for those who get results and those who just make up the numbers. If you [...]
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The common problem for all managers is time. “How do I create sufficient time to do everything I have to do each day?” The fact is that we all work with a degree of inefficiency, we spend too much time on the tasks we enjoy and insufficient on our “daily disciplines”. People, from all walks [...]
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