Over the decades we have seen an evolution of differing management and leadership styles, all adapting to, and being driven by, societal and business needs, some being rationalised by the results they achieved (e.g. Total Quality Management), others being assessed by the emotional connection…
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John Adair, one of the most respected leadership trainers in the world, spent years developing what is now known as Adair’s Action Centred Leadership Model. The model has three main parts, of which any good manager or leader should be familiar with. As a manager,…
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VUCA is an acronym which characterises the nature of difficult conditions and situations. Born in the 1990’s in the military world of the American military, it originally described the conditions the world faced after the cold war. Brexit, the Coronavirus pandemic, and the global economy…
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There are no rights and wrongs when it comes down to leadership styles and it’s a popular topic in the Leadership Development Programmes that we run. There’s a need for both styles in any organisation but transactional and transformational leadership are poles apart when it…
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As a manager you should certainly be able to handle conflict. Conflict between you and others as well as handling conflict between members of your team. The truth, however, is that every member of your team should be able to do the same thing because…
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It is important to make sure your team is getting along as well as possible in order to ensure that everyone’s work gets done. Unfortunately, there will be times when certain members of your team seem to bang heads with each other, and it will…
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I’ve found over the course of my career that there are three main types of decision making models or methods that you can use to help you make a decision. Whilst every person will follow their own process, all of them tend to fall into…
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If you’ve come across this article, you probably already know the importance of setting objectives for yourself and your team. However, if you’re like most people, you are aware that most objectives that you set are simply forgotten after a couple of weeks. Objectives are…
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What’s the purpose of a football team, or any other team in a team sport? Did you immediately think, “to win the game” or “to beat the opposition”? OK, here’s another question…What’s the objective for the team? Did you repeat the same answers? Very often,…
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For managers to be successful, their team members need to respect them and follow them. For this to occur you will need to be assertive. You have to get the work done through your team and at the same time ensure that your team has…
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If you’re working with customers then it’s not a question of whether you will have to deal with customer complaints, but how you will deal with them. Although you should treat each complaint individually, you should have a strategy in place for handling complaints to leave the…
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In times of virtual working distributing tasks out to your people can be challenging. Miscommunication can happen easily. The result? Your people start on the task and they don’t fully understand it. But you’re relying on your team to be productive and efficient when it comes…
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