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10 Tips To Run Great Performance Reviews!
Many new line managers struggle with performance reviews when they are first promoted. Now that you are a line manager, it is a fundamental part of the HR responsibilities that come with your role to monitor, review and manage the…
How Decision Making Helps Your Career
As a manager, decision-making is one of your key roles. Being able to think clearly and so make decisions is a skill that you’ll need to develop. But not all decisions require a quick response. If they are important, it…
Authority And Respect – The Ultimate Guide!
When you think of authority, you probably think about power or respect. While they are both terms that help to define authority, they aren’t exactly the same and don’t cover it. Power is more of a blanket term for influence…
Delegation & Objective Setting – Line Management
There are many skills you will learn as a manager, some you will learn while on training courses that help with the technical aspects of your job, and some though practice and learning from experiences on the job. Take objective…
All About Procrastination
Procrastination is one of the biggest issues people have when working. But there are a number of well-understood drivers for procrastination. In this post, I want to look at the issue of self-sabotage. A number of experts believe that for…
Time Management For Projects !
Many of us will recognise this story if we struggle with time management. We have a great idea. Excitedly, we make a start on it with a few manic hours of activity. Things are moving along and looking good. The…
How To Delegate And Make Time For You!
Time management is the art of using your time to best effect. Given that you only have 24 hours per day, the same as everyone else, learning to use your time efficiently and effectively is a key career skill. For…
3 Quick Tips For Time Management!
In our recent set of posts looking at time management, we’ve looked at ‘big ideas’ like the pomodoro technique, as well as procrastination. These are techniques that you can build a strong time management practice around. You need to work…
Employee Happiness Statistics & Facts – 2024 Research
What makes employees happy? Lots of people are reassessing their work now that coronavirus restrictions have been lifted. To find out more, we conducted new, original research to look at what the key drivers of employee happiness & job satisfaction…
Using The Key Influencer Visual In Power BI
In this article, we look at creating a Key Influencer visual in Microsoft Power BI. We will see what a key influencer visual is, when it is valuable and look at its limitations. Our online Microsoft Power BI training courses…
What Makes People Resilient?
There are many factors that cause trauma in individuals and communities. Some people cope better than others when faced with adversity. Our lives unfold in complicated, unpredictable, and diverse ways. Big and small traumatic things happen to us. Some people…
5 Things A Manager Should Never Delegate
Merriam-Webster defines delegation as ‘the act of empowering to act for another’. In business parlance, we call it assigning the authority to carry out tasks and make decisions. Some people find it hard to delegate as they don’t think anyone…