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Manager Skills and Training: Top Skills to Develop in Your Managers
Managers are tasked with monitoring and coaching employees to improve their performance. However, achieving those goals can be challenging, particularly if your managers lack the required skills and capabilities. Without key skills, it is impossible to get employee buy-in, build engagement, and boost performance. Of course, not all manager skills are equal. Which ones should […]
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5 Ways to Build Mindfulness into a Hectic Manager’s Schedule
Mindfulness has become something of a buzzword today. Once relegated to Zen Buddhist circles and yoga studios, the practice has exploded. You’ll find Olympic athletes doing mindfulness training, police officers building these practices into their lives, and successful CEOs trying to be more mindful every single day. Mindfulness, far from being simply a catchword, is […]
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The Key to Manager Effectiveness: Self-Awareness
As a manager, you must be able to work with employees to improve their performance. One way to do that is through one-on-one meetings, but your effectiveness here may be hampered. If you lack self-awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses, it becomes impossible to provide guidance and help employees develop and become their best […]
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Improving Manager Effectiveness to Maximize Leadership and Success
There’s a lot of focus on remote worker productivity and engagement in our strange new world. However, while they are crucial to success, you cannot overlook the effectiveness of your managers. If management is dropping the ball, it doesn’t matter what else you do. How do you ensure manager effectiveness, though? It will require intentionally […]
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How to Transform Managers into More Effective Coaches
Once upon a time, managers were bosses. They were expected to lead by enforcement or coercion (the old carrot and stick management method). Today, things are changing for the better. Managers are transitioning from authoritarian models of leadership to coaches that offer support and help. Of course, that transition isn’t always easy, and it can […]
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Key Considerations for Manager Development
People are the key to your business’s success. It’s as simple as that. However, you must have a way to manage those people, to direct and guide them. Your managers and team leaders are, therefore, some of the most critical individuals. Sadly, most managers are ineffective or not trusted by their teams to lead them […]