Are you developing a new team? You’re not alone. One of the key challenges faced by most organisations is the ever-increasing pace of change and the need to continually develop to adapt and respond. So, many organisations are adapting the way they’re structured in line with their new goals and objectives. New organisation structures involve
This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks. You can read the original article here. “The solution does not care where the problem came from” W. Herren This paradoxical quote is a powerful maxim for developing your team. When teams want to develop or change, what usually happens is they analyse everything
This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks. You can read the original article here. Thanks to technology and globalisation, more and more business teams are working together remotely from different locations and sometimes different countries. But even with an array of new Web-based collaboration tools at their disposal, most managers find
What do people think of your team? What’s their reputation within your organisation? When I was a Learning & Development Director, one of my key objectives every year was to raise the profile of my team and department within the organisation. As part of the wider HR team, I had a number of internal customers
What’s the least you need to do? I ask because this week I have been delivering 360-degree feedback for a client. One of the key phrases I heard most often was “I don’t have time. I have too much to do.” The issue displayed itself in various ways. For some it led to others thinking
This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks. You can read the original article here. One of the key challenges of being a manager and a leader is that you have to develop a much more sophisticated set of communication skills. Leadership is all about making things happen through others and that
I recently ran a series of webinars for a business school for their alumni to understand mentoring in the workplace. That was the most recent of several mentoring programmes I have helped launch and run in the UK and globally since 1997. Some of the mentoring programmes have been within organisations like the one I managed
Do you have great leaders in your organisation? Are they delivering the results you want? If there is room for improvement, you’re not alone. That was the situation for one of our clients too. The client, a community health care organisation, was looking to turn around the performance of the organisation and overcome the following
Mentoring is one of the top strategies for career development and advancement within an organisation. It is also a critical support for people making career changes and transitions. Career Coaches are often called upon to recommend mentoring, and to know about the information clients need to find a suitable mentor, as well as how to
Is there one leadership style that is better than others? I don’t believe so. The most important thing is that leaders are versatile and adapt their leadership style to the needs of the situation. That was the challenge one of our clients asked for our help with.Our client was one of the UK’s largest mental
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