Top Tips for Praising Others
Following these top tips will help you ensure that the praise you offer others at work really helps to motivate them.
Leadership and Management
Taskboarding for Change Management Projects
Taskboarding is a simple tool for analysing the processes involved in projects. It can be used with a team to break a change process down into logical steps and pinpoint areas of difficulty. Allow around one hour for completion.
Helping Others Use Constructive Feedback
Help others put constructive feedback to good use.
Getting to Know the Team Better
Use this exercise to help participants at a teambuilding session get to know each other better. They might be surprised at how much they don’t know about their colleagues, even if they have worked with them for a long time!
How to Lead an Effective Meeting
Leading meetings is an important aspect of a manager’s role. Whether your meetings are formal and structured, or informal and flexible, following the advice in this guide will help you lead them effectively.
Talent Management Myths
People buy into many myths about workplace performance without giving them a second thought. Leadership expert Ken Nowack explodes some of them.
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Plus Minus Implications
This technique will help you to weigh the pros and cons of a particular decision. It can be especially useful in situations where you are unsure if you should make a decision at all.
Performance Management Overview
An introduction to the performance management cycle, and the individual elements of a performance management framework.
The Carrot Principle
This article provides an overview of the key principles outlined by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton in their book 'The Carrot Principle'.
Celebrating Achievement
Do you applaud your team members' hard work and success? And what counts as an achievement anyway? Discover nine ways to effectively celebrate achievement.
The KJ-Method for Establishing Priorities
This exercise uses the KJ-Method to help groups effectively establish priorities and make decisions. When resources are limited this exercise helps organisations to assess what is most important and reach a group consensus. Allow about one hour for completion.
Understanding Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome
In this article, we look at research published by Harvard Business Review which suggests that managers are often to blame for creating a self-reinforcing cycle of poor performance in their teams. Known as 'Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome', the authors propose a five step framework to help managers address the negative dynamics of their working relationships with team members.