Most people seem to have heard of the SMART objective. An acronym to help you have all the correct ingredients when crafting an objective. There are loads of different versions of it too, my favourite being: Specific, Measurable, Awesome, Ridiculous and Time-bound ;-) But the traditional amongst us may be more familiar with Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound.
Are there key things that managers should communicate? Well, yes, there are actually! Three things that are vital for all managers in all organisations to communicate well and regularly. I see them as weekly leadership and management communication priorities.
Is it possible that the presentation slide has become the nail in the coffin of good presentation? A rhetorical question, but just in case you are wondering, I think the answer is yes! If we wound back the clock a few decades to when I was a young lad in the workplace, PowerPoint never existed, no really.
We work with a lot of managers, literally thousands of them over the years from all walks of organisational life. One of the big things we always find ourselves addressing is the tendency to succumb to the gravitational pull of activity. The stuff that keeps managers buried in the day to day operations and therefore failing to get some height and lead their teams.
In this age of increasingly mobile ways of working, it’s becoming highly important to have a distinct personal brand. The reason for this is simple, being away from the team workplace means you are less visible, especially if this is your main mode of working.
Being able to increase your level of influence in almost any situation puts you in a position of advantage. What most people don’t realise is that influence in business seldom occurs in a single instance, it’s in the many interactions that bring about the outcome.
The word ‘communication’ has a mysterious quality in the training room - you can use it to answer almost any question and you’ll nearly always be right! The problem with that of course, is that it’s just so vague, bordering on worthless because, where comms are concerned we have to get specific.
Whether it’s #Brexit nervousness or a general downturn, we’ve recently been invited to deliver negotiation skills programmes for a number of clients. Are we seeing organisations preparing for the a potential downturn by making sure their staff are well equipped to deal with it? Negotiating in a tough market is of course a blessing and a curse, it just depends on your perspective; buyer or sales professional.
Getting recruitment selection correct is such an important thing. It’s a costly and time consuming game even before you’ve made any job offer. Add to that the potential of recruiting the wrong person and the significance of getting it wrong escalates rapidly.
Having to be a manager of geographically dispersed teams has been a common challenge for many of us for quite some time. However, these challenges have been heightened further in recent years as workers and organisations continue to new ways of working, such as flexible, virtual and remote arrangements.
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