Posted on November 28, 2008 by Mike Chitty
I have recently had the pleasure of working with an extremely talented vocal coach, Dane Chalfin at the Leeds College of Music.
Dane wanted to improve his effectiveness in giving feedback to his students so that he could more powerfully influence the development of their vocal talents.
In my first session I taught Dane a basic feedback [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2008 by Mike Chitty
Prem Rao writes a great blog and one of his recent posts identifies 7 barriers that prevent managers from coaching their team members as much as they ought.
Now I spend a lot of my time teaching managers how to coach and while I agree with all of Prem’s 7 I would have to add a [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Mike Chitty
So mediation makes it to the front cover of People Management.
Workplace mediation looks like it could be one of the big growth areas for 2009.
With the potential to significantly enhance organisational culture and to reduce the use of formal workplace grievance and disciplinary procedures and industrial tribunals workplace mediation might both add value and reduce [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Mike Chitty
“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free – and worth a fortune.” – Sam Walton
“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of feedback. They’re absolutely free – and worth a fortune.” – Mike Chitty
You see the thing about praise is [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2008 by Mike Chitty
The biggest challenge to developing as a manager is not so much learning new techniques and approaches. That part can be quite straightforward.
The real challenge comes in letting go of existing habits and routines, making ourselves say and do something that we wouldn’t normally do. Avoiding the knee jerk habitual responses that have worked for [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2008 by Mike Chitty
It can be a tough time to try to get an organisation to focus on anything that is not, in the short term, going to increase profits or reduce costs. People are really beginning to understand what is meant by an ‘uncertain future’.
And this makes it just the right time to re-double your investment in engaging [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2008 by Mike Chitty
I’m so sick, sick, sick and tired
Of working just to be retired
I don’t want to get that far
I don’t want your company car
Promotions ain’t my thing
Name badges are not interesting
It’s much easier for me see
To stay at home with Richard and Judy
Awayaway oh oh oh away from here…
Awayaway oh oh oh away from here
Awayaway oh [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2008 by Mike Chitty
Still the biggest barrier I find to helping clients to implement best practice approaches to people management is that ‘we do not have the time’.
‘But Mike I have 4 people in my team – are you really saying that I need to find 2 hours a week to invest in their 121s? Don’t you understand how busy [...]
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