My manager likes my positive attitude, my enthusiasm and my creative approach to problem solving. My manager likes that I bring solutions not problems to our meetings. My manager appreciates being kept informed and an early warning when things aren’t going to plan. My manager recognises I do have insight into how my behaviour effects others. My manager is confident that I will deliver on...
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After years of interviewing candidates for management posts I have identified the qualities that get people the top jobs.The most significant personal qualities are ambition and bounce back ability. But these qualities say nothing about the individual’s ability to do the job.
It turns out that there are two types of managers those who are ambitious and those who are not. Note I am not...
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20 août 2018 - 19:12
Naivety and arrogance are not good qualities in a leader. Although the leader concerned would not recognise this description seeing themselves as optimistic and confident. Such leaders compound these faults with a lack in sight into their own behaviour. A recent example is the statement by the prison minister that he will resign if his plan to combat drugs and violence by spending £10 million...
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17 août 2018 - 12:31
The culture of over work has become a national disease/cause for concern in Japan. To such an extent that the Government is urging firms to give employees Monday mornings off once a month . ‘Shining Monday” is just the latest attempt to improve the country’s poor work - life balance. A culture of excessive hours is impacting on the nations health, undermining family life and is...
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By which I mean paralysed by indecision, unwilling to make an unpopular decision, reacting rather than anticipating, being tactical but not strategic, investing only in holding on to power rather than using power to progress the vision, having no vision, constantly changing direction to follow the line of least resistance, seeing potential threats everywhere therefore trusting no one and...
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Being a director of children’s or adults social services in local government is like playing Russian Roulette with the addition that every so often the government puts another bullet in the chamber. If you hold your nerve the odds are you will survive but with every spin of the chamber comes the fear that this time your luck may run out. The average tenure of a local authority chief...
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20 août 2018 - 12:51
In football they call it the difficult third year. Despite your success in the first two years you get the sack in the third year. It’s as if everyone had given all they had and now you can’t get any more from them. You weren’t able to build on your success.
I have heard the same speech from a team manager to their front line staff and from a chief executive to there senior...
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null The Careeist
Even my close friends didn’t seem as happy for me as I expected. I was the first within our group to gain a senior management post. I don’t remember any of use saying we had ambitions to be a director or chief executive when we were training, it would have seem ridiculous, arrogant and hypocritical . We were after all very critical of senior management considering them as a group out of...
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21 juil. 2018 - 13:33
“ Every hour spent cycling adds an hour to your life” department of human geography, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands ( advert in weekend papers selling bikes) So as long as you never get off your bike you will live forever- or will it just seem like that.
As my old English language teacher use to say “just because all sheep are animals and all sheep have four legs doesn’t mean...
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11 juil. 2018 - 09:33
A friend has just come back from a family holiday in the south of France. They went with another couple and their children who are the same ages. They stayed at a “gite” complete with a swimming pool and acres of wood land for the kids to explore and ride their mountain bikes. They went via the Euro Tunnel and drove down through France breaking the journey by spending the first night in...
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On holiday in New York, first night go for a drink in the hotel
bar with my son in law. The bar is crowed, we eventually catch the
attention of the bartender and I order two drinks where apron the
bartender asks my son in law how old he is. My son in law is rather
surprised by the question he is in his late thirties. His polite reply
is greeted by a terse, “ You don’t look it” and...
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29 juin 2018 - 13:26
Another chief executive has resigned following an investigation which confirmed they were in a consensual relationship with an employee. Ok this was and in the US where it is increasingly common for companies to impose a non-fraternisation policy between managers and employees irrespective of whether they have direct management responsibility for their partner. But what happens in US today...
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29 juin 2018 - 12:33
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There are known knowns; that is to say there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don’t know we don’t know. (Donald Rumsfeld)
Try saying that at your next teaming.
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25 juin 2018 - 10:28
Some say it is the greatest achievement of modern society. Others say it is the greatest challenge. I am referring to increased life expectancy over the last 70 years. In resent years the focus has been on the cost of this success. The increasing burden on the NHS of an ageing population and the financial implications for pensions. But statistics from ONS appear to indicate a,”...
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18 juin 2018 - 14:33
Why do people behave badly in team meetings?
The same manager who is charming and agreeable to partner agencies is abrasive , argumentative and opinionated to colleagues in team meetings.
In business you don’t go around having massive confrontations. You try and find the things you agree on rather than what you disagree on. The common ground. So your not...
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Jeff Bezos ,the founder and CEO of Amazon states, your meetings should not be bigger than can be feed by two pizzas. For creative meeting Susan Cain in her book Quiet suggests small groups are best more Lennon and McCartney than the full orchestra. And if you want to keep people to the point then try Walking and Talking like Jed Bartlet in...
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The trainer started the session by giving everyone a large piece of plain paper from the flip chart. “I want you to draw what it feels like to work here, just a quick sketch, you have ten minutes”. The trainer walked round the room looking at what people were drawing. After a little over ten minutes, due to some special pleading from those who needed longer, everyone was asked to pin their...
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06 juin 2018 - 15:40
The biggest cause of stress is your line manager.The next biggest cause is that awkward git who delights in contradicting what any one else in the team says, doesn’t believe in going with the majority, doesn’t see why they should cover/help / do someone else’s work. Bending over backwards to appease them and avoid conflict is extremely stressful for everyone else. Mediating between them and...
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28 mai 2018 - 16:05
Can a joker be taken seriously? Can a manager be friends with those they manage? Is it unprofessional for a manager to show their emotions in public. Should triumphs and disasters be meet with the same stoicism? Can a manager take too much pleasure in the success of their team?
A high profile manager was recently reported as believing they could be friends with team members...
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What is the smallest thing you can get into the biggest box? It’s not a quiz question it’s a challenge! Working in Amazon’s massive packaging warehouse involves boring, repetitive and tedious work. Not surprisingly a little distraction helps pass the time. Office based staff can risk dismissal by surreptitiously playing games on their computer, emailing amusing links to colleagues or...
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