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VUCA is an acronym which characterises the nature of difficult conditions and situations. Born in the 1990’s in the military world of the American military, it originally described the conditions the world faced after the cold war. Brexit, the Coronavirus pandemic, and the global economy are all VUCA conditions that we are all find ourselves[…..]
There are no rights and wrongs when it comes down to leadership styles and it’s a popular topic in the Leadership Training that we run. There’s a need for both styles in any organisation but transactional and transformational leadership are poles apart when it comes to what they are and how they are applied. Transactional[…..]
What’s the purpose of a football team, or any other team in a team sport? Did you immediately think, “to win the game” or “to beat the opposition”? OK, here’s another question…What’s the objective for the team? Did you repeat the same answers? Very often, we find there is a confusion between what we consider[…..]
In times of virtual working distributing tasks out to your people can be challenging. Miscommunication can happen easily. The result? Your people start on the task and they don’t fully understand it. But you’re relying on your team to be productive and efficient when it comes to their tasks. A company relies on its employees to[…..]
Meet the team that makes it all happen
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 our Project Management Skills Assessment.
Are you managing your workplace in an ethical manner?
One of the fundamental human needs we have at work is the ability to control our own approach to tasks. If we are simply ‘doing a job’, it is not surprising that our motivation will soon atrophy and die. What is it that makes us want to do this? Why is this aspect of autonomy[…..]
A recent report by Seibert, Wang and Courtright in Applied Psychology magazine carried out an analytical review of the consequences of team empowerment in organisations. They concluded that ‘when employees feel empowered at work, it’s associated with stronger job performance, job satisfaction and commitment to the organisation’. What, then, is empowerment in the workplace?
Becoming a team leader is often someone’s first experience of management responsibility. With many team leaders being promoted from within the team because they were good team members, they face a challenging time especially as they now have to manage their friends!
Excellent communication in the office is imperative. What you say (and what you don’t say) to your employees greatly influences the corporate culture, their satisfaction with work, productivity levels and loyalty to the company. Some say that with texting, emails and “Whatsapping” that the art of true conversation, i.e something that comes out of your[…..]
Why is it so difficult to get my people to take full responsibility for results? This was a question one of my consultants faced when he was working with a client recently.
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