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Peer Group Coaching as Part of the Manager Development Programme

A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme | Part Six Readers of this series, “A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme” will know that the Programme consists of a series of workshops. The workshop focus on the leadership challenges that the participants face in their daily working lives. But that’s not

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The Art of Effective Career Conversations

A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme | Part Five In this, the fifth instalment of the ‘A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme’ series, we explore what happened during the second workshop and look at why career conversations are important for building strong teams. Preparation for practice Before the

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How to Build Trust at Work

A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme | Part Four In this, the fourth instalment of the ‘Manager Development Programme: A Year in the Life’ series, I’m going to look at the issue of building trust in the context of developing relationships with new employees. In my last post you’ll remember that the

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Talent Development Tips? Here are my Top 15 Blog Posts of 2015

It’s that time of the year when all the “best of” lists surface. Here’s mine. My 15 from 15. In other words, my most popular Talent Development blog posts from 2015.  I hope you find them interesting and useful. Talent Development Tips – The Most Popular Posts on my Talent Development Blog – 2015 1. Six

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How to Design a Development Programme Managers Will Love

A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme | Part Three In The Surprising Truth About New Managers and Development, I mentioned the Development Programme would launch with a Co-Design Workshop. The aim was to agree the desired outcomes and content of the Programme.  We held that workshop on 5 November so I thought

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The Surprising Truth about New Managers and Development

A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme | Part Two In my blog post “A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme” I explained I was designing a Programme for new managers.  And I mentioned I was going to start by calling each manager to start the conversation about what

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A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme

A Year in the Life of a Manager Development Programme | Part One I’ve just started a new project designing and delivering a 12-month Manager Development Programme for a client in the technology sector. And I’m hoping you’ll join me on the Programme Design and Development Journey. I’m planning to share the experience by blogging about it.

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Career development strategies. Are yours up to date?

CCS (or Career Counselling Services to give them their full title) is the organisation I did my career coach training with many, many, years ago.  Twice a year alumni who have trained with CCS come together to exchange knowledge, ideas and experiences as part of our continuous professional development. We were also lucky enough to

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5 Creative Ways to Build Trust in a Team

Building trust in teams is a skill that can require careful management. But it’s well worth doing.  According to a survey by management consulting company Willis Towers Watson, any organisation that has ‘high trust’, “outperforms low-trust organisations by 286%.” That’s an impressive statistic. But what are the secrets to building trust? And how do you effectively

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My Biggest Talent Development Mistake

Talent Development Mistakes  – Have you ever made them? I have a confession to make. Even with decades of talent development experience, I have, in the past, let my own employees down. Talent Development Mistakes | How Career Conversations can Help I’ll never forget the time one of my best employees, Roby, asked to see me. 

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