Moving Office!

Been a quiet week on the blogging front – mainly because I have been moving to a new office.
Just waiting for the e-mails to start flowing again as my new ‘IP address propogates across the internet’!  Amazing how much you can get done with fewer e-mail distractions.
So the Progressive Managers Network and Realise Development now [...]

What Could a Management Makeover Do for You?

Here is a ‘Management Makeover’ recipe to improve organisational culture and performance – fast.

Significantly increase the quality, quantity and frequency of communication throughout the organisation. Do this through effective 121s, team meetings, project meetings and ’skip level’ meetings. Train people to make these meetings REALLY work. Make sure that the communication regime [...]

In Support of 121s

Carmine Coyotes Slow Leadership blog is one of my favourites. In this post she describes with great eloquence the importance of ‘Right Relationships’ to effective leadership. Carmine writes:
Dealing with people takes time. You need time to get to know them, time to establish trust and respect, time to recognize their strengths and weaknesses, [...]

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From Good to Great Manager – Part 2

Great managers make people feel good about their work.
They catch people doing something right and thank them for it far more often they catch them doing something wrong. Affirming feedback outnumbers adjusting feedback by about 5:1.
They spend time with their team members observing them working and providing plenty of feedback and praise based [...]

Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?

There are several factors that will keep talented employees in a company.
The most important is good quality managers.
Employees stay where they have a manager who actively manages them: spends time with them, gives feedback, coaches them and provides plenty of opportunities for personal and professional development through delegation.
Great managers listen to employee ideas and encourage [...]

Why Should We Learn with the Third Sector?

We try to attract managers to PMN events from a wide range of organisations and sectors. I am often asked by managers from ‘for profit’ organisations ‘Why should we ask our managers to learn alongside managers from the third sector?’ The implication is that it might ’set them back’ or ’slow them down’, or [...]

Who is the Entrepreneur?

Rob Greenland has just had a harrowing experience. A couple of on-line tests designed to find out whether or not he has what it takes to be an entrepreneur have come back in the negative. Apparently he ‘may benefit from the security of a permanent job’.  Welcome to the human race Rob!
Most questionnaires [...]

Changing the Game

I love it when I hear of a manager who does something simple and easy that shifts organisational culture immediately.
A recent example of this is the CEO of ING Direct in the USA.  He has recently moved his office to the floor of their telephone banking call centre.
He is now much closer to his [...]

Going from Good Manager to Great: Part 1

This is the first of a series of posts looking at what most managers need to work on if they are to go from being an OK manager to being a great one.

Part 1 – Learn to Read (and Shape) the Maps
Most managers have a pretty good idea of what they need to get done. [...]