When new managers are appointed, employers often evaluate their technical skills or industry-related experience before hiring them. However, managers need other valuable skills to effectively lead teams to do their jobs, as well. (more…)
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Managers must have good communication skills to run a successful organisation and lead effective teams. However, it has been identified that people have different communication styles, each one having its own advantages and disadvantages. (more…)
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Many people prefer a silent place to gather their thoughts when they work. This is why most companies create offices for their managers, allowing them to have their own spaces. (more…)
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There are distinct types of managers, different kinds of employees and various types of jobs, all of which may require a different approach to leadership. (more…)
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Getting assigned the position of a manager does not automatically come with respect from underlings. If you are a new manager who has just started in the company, or a younger supervisor who is managing older employees, your new role in the organisation may be…
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Becoming a successful communicator is very important as a manager or business owner as it will help you to build strong relationships with your team and help you to get the most out of your employees by delivering clear and effective instructions on what work…
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It’s one of the most popular themes we have on our training programmes, and it won’t be any different in the future. The question ‘How do we get over Communication Overload?’ must come up more frequently than any other. The way that technology has made…
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At MTD, we use Accelerated Learning (AL) as our staple way of delivering our training. One specific way that AL is an advantage for training is that it recognises how people take in and compute information. It goes into the short-term memory first and is…
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Not so long ago, the era of broadcast media was when information was pushed on us. We had little choice on what we saw or experienced when we were watching training videos…whatever was on the film or in the book, we had little input or…
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Meeting and talking with others is an excellent way of honing your thinking skills and becoming a person that others seek out for advice and information. So here are some ideas when we want to improve our hit rate when conversing with someone. (more…)
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One of our communication courses includes a section on obtaining feedback from your staff, and this is an area that many managers have concerns with. They feel that their staff hide their real feelings and are afraid to offer any form of feedback in case…
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Strange question? Maybe. Few people actually think about the style they adopt when they are listening to another person. But there is value in doing so, and I’d like to share some ideas that may help your communications in the future. (more…)
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