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There’s More than One Way to Successfully Lead a Football Team
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Rex is Rex, Bill is Bill…and Both are Great Coaches:
There’s More than One Way to Successfully Lead a Football Team
I live in New York. I am a die-hard Jets fan. And yes, I love Rex Ryan. I love his bluster. I love the confidence he’s injected into the Jets franchise and its fan base. I love the way he finds the right message to get his team keyed up every week.
Are You Handling Your Meetings Effectively?
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Love them or hate them (and you most likely hate them), the chances are that meetings take up most of your day as a team manager.
People book in meetings for everything from a quick catch-up to a day-long workshop, and it’s expected that, as a manager of people, you will attend and then cascade what has been discussed to your staff.
With the average manager spending about half of their time each day in meetings of one form or another, it can seem as if your working life is all about talking, and you are left with barely any time for actually achieving your objectives.
Task Management For Busy Managers
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Looking after staff.
Attending meetings.
Doing all your business as usual activities.
Relationship management, ad hoc requests, and dealing with unexpected issues.
Any team manager has a wealth of activities to undertake every day, that can make the simple task of actually doing your ‘real’ defined job seem almost impossible.
When we sit down each year and develop our list of objectives for the next twelve months, it’s rare for these peripheral activities to be even mentioned, let alone set out as criteria which your progress can be measured against.
The Managers Guide To Doing Killer Appraisals
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Love them or loath them, at least twice a year the inevitable appraisal time swings around, and you are faced with the task of reviewing the performance of your team.
While the format and structure of appraisals differ greatly, all performance reviews are designed for the same purposes:
- To discuss the overall output of your team members and progress they have made
- Identify any potential issues, and establish a plan for mitigating them
- Discussing how your team feel about their role, your management, and the overall daily tasks which they undertake
How to command respect and stay cool in the face of adversity
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Have you ever noticed how some people manage to command respect, even before they open their mouth?
The world seems to be divided in to people who listen, and people who are listened to. This trait is one of the most important attributes which the great manager has, and while it seems that you are either born with it or not, the truth is much more simple – it’s possible to learn to command respect and manage with authority, even if you believe that you are not a born leader.
Manager Skills: Are These The Top 10?
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Managers are expected to be a cross between superhero and saint most of the time, bringing their team to work in harmony together and resolving any potential issues while delivering their responsibilities on time, on budget, and to a superb standard.
Many companies offer people management roles when employees have proven themselves through great delivery of projects or a long-standing record within the company. While this is a fair way of rewarding longevity and good service within an organization, it doesn’t always mean that people with strong managerial skills are appointed to run teams effectively.
Interview Techniques For Positive Recruitment
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Conducting interviews is one of the inevitable elements of management, but many people put in the position find themselves floundering to get the interview technique right, in order to draw the best out of their candidates and ensure that they make the right recruitment decision.
The corporate world is flooded with tales about poor interviews, or situations where managers have done everything possible to ensure they have the right candidate, only to find out later that they made a mistake and the person whom they appointed to the role was not actually the right person for the job.
Managers: How To Cover Festive Resource Shortfalls
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At this time of year, it seems that the office environment is full of people taking time off for all sorts of reasons. As winter approaches, your team may begin to succumb to the various coughs and colds which affect most of us when seasons change.
Add in the many festive events and celebrations which crop up over the winter months, the allure of Christmas shopping and the casualties caused by hangovers and most managers find themselves struggling to keep their team afloat in the face of numerous unscheduled absences.
6 Steps To More Effective Management
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Contrary to popular belief, strong managers are not just born leaders. Sure, they can be, but most develop their management skills through hard work, experience and education. Effective management skills and strong leadership can, in fact, be learned – and they usually are.
Hi, Andrew Rondeau here. I have over 25 years of hands-on management experience within a diverse range of different industries including retail, manufacturing, finance and IT. I’ve managed teams of up to 1000 individuals, managing numerous $multi-million projects, mergers, acquisitions and company sales.
Gain Experience Through Everyday Life
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The seemingly mundane experiences that make up your everyday life can be transformed into skills that increase your value in the workplace. The same tasks can be transformed from daily bores to steps on your personal path to happiness. The best part is that you don’t have to dramatically increase your workload or pay for specialized training to make it all happen; all it takes is cultivation of a paradigm shift.