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How to View Conflict Positively

This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks.  You can read the original article here. How you as a manager view conflict will largely control your attitude and approach to dealing with it. Most people don’t like conflict.  Maybe that’s because our physiology makes us ill-prepared for them.  The body’s response to

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How do you change an organisation?

As HR professionals and senior leaders, we often think on a macro scale when pondering the question “how do you change an organisation?”  We’re often trying to change or implement things at an organisation level, or we’re helping managers create change at a department level or business sector level.  And we’re often trying to do

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Talent Management – The Missing Link [slideshare]

Are you responsible for talent management in your organisation? If so, you will be well aware of the challenges of engaging, developing and retaining talented employees – especially in today’s economy and continuing change. The problem is that talent management approaches often don’t work because they’re missing an important link. The challenge is, that while

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3 Reasons You Need to Train Managers to Resolve Conflict in the Workplace

This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks.  You can read the original article here. Conflict in the workplace is a management issue and every manager need to be able to resolve conflict in a healthy, productive fashion.  Workplaces employ people and, as soon as you have people working together, you have

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Valuable Top Tips for Conducting a One on One with Employees

A good way for managers to develop performance is to conduct a regular one on one with employees to review progress against their performance objectives and development plan. Such sessions can encourage employees to communicate openly in private and be more active in team meetings and brainstorming sessions. Research shows that regular reviews, ongoing feedback

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The Number One Reason You Should Train Managers to Develop Employees

This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks.  You can read the original article here. Managers often feel that one of the difficulties they face is the dual mandate to achieve business results and, at the same time, develop employees.But the reality is that employee development is not on top of

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Improving Performance. How to bring out the best in your people.

This post is extracted from an article I wrote for the CIPD Management Toolclicks Newsletter in February.  You can read the original article here. In George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, he shared the news that he has extended his austerity programme until 2018.  This is disheartening news for organisations and managers who are already struggling to

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Mentoring Part 2 – Mentoring Tools and Techniques [Slideshare]

In my last blog post, Mentoring Part 1, I mentioned a series of webinars for a leading UK university who were launching a mentoring programme for their MBA Alumni. And I shared a changed version of the slides from the webinar I delivered, “Is Mentoring for Me?” The second webinar in the series focused on “Mentoring

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