No matter how short a time you have been involved in management, or whether you have held management positions for decades, your role can be systematically described as ‘managing a series of projects from inception to completion’. Whether you are spending 95% of your time…
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Organising your working and personal life is not just important these days…it’s vital. You simply cannot manage everything you have to do in the time you have to do it, so it’s important to have good organisational skills, and the most pertinent is how you…
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Leading a project these days is a lot more complicated than ever before, as you have to deal with so many constraints, different people’s demands and a time-scale that is often shorter than you would like. If you’d like to benchmark your skills please take…
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What’s the current and future impact of globalisation on business? How does globalisation affect businesses and what response should we offer? We’ve seen such a growth in globalisation and its tentacles will only keep spreading as we go through the 2020s (more…)
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Let’s take a closer look at a manager’s interpersonal roles.. As a manager, your interpersonal roles will be dictated by the type of position you hold. Lower level managers will have different interpersonal roles than middle management. (more…)
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When I was managing people within a busy financial institution, every single person who reported into me was within shouting distance! It was easy for me to get an instant update on the status of a particular account or where a specific project was stalling.…
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The only constant in business is change. I’m sure you’ve heard that statement many times. And one of the main reasons why organisations stagnate and fall is because of the lack of understanding about this simple philosophy. (more…)
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As a manager you’re going to find yourself in the position where your decision making skills are tested. While you may, at times, feel as though you are guided by your own morals and beliefs, it is very important for you to remember to put…
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Being a manager is never an easy job, but being a new manager is especially difficult. When you think about the competencies required of a good manager, they are constantly changed, updated and reviewed. Whether you have just been promoted to a leadership position or…
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In our complex, VUCA environments we face today, no-one in your organisation, even the CEO, knows everything about everything. This requires you to rely and depend on the people who work for you to come up with ideas that would work in the real world.…
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Have you ever carried out one of those personality profiles that categorise you into a few ‘types’ of person? One of these discusses if you are ‘extroversion’ or ‘introversion’ in your outlook. That is, do you appear to be an extrovert in the workplace or…
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Once, an old man in a village planted a tiny turnip seed and said to it ‘Grow, little turnip seed, grow big, strong and mighty’. Well, his words must have done the trick because the turnip grew and grew, got stronger and bigger, until it…
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