Management Blog

Two Equally-Qualified Job Candidates? How Do I Choose?

You’ve decided that two candidates for an important role in the department should be invited back for a further interview. Both have similar experience and backgrounds…both would fit in well with your team. Here are some questions that might help you differentiate between them.

“You need to convince me you’re the right person for the job. What can you tell me that would make me say ‘yes’?”

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A Model To Help Improve Your Communication

Being able to communicate effectively is one of the key components that make up the great manager’s portfolio.

Without excellent communication, even a good manager will fail to progress the business because of the need to keep momentum through communicating the vision and objectives.

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How Managers Can Deal With A VUCA Environment

VUCA is an acronym that stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, which characterise the nature of some 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.

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6 Keys To Leading Positive Change

There’s a very interesting TEDx talk by RosaBeth Moss Kanter on leading positive change, and I’ve noted six keys to change that she mentions, along with my thoughts as to their application in the world of business and leadership:

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A Coaching Model That Helps Your Team Take Responsibility

You’re sure to have come across different coaching models in the coaching skills training that you’ve attended in the past. They all help you to achieve goals with your team, and allow you to get more involvement from people in making decisions and solving problems.

A famous one is, of course, the GROW model, where we set Goals, check Reality, look at Options and establish a Way Forward.

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How To Know What To Concentrate On As A Manager

Many managers face the dilemma at times of what to focus their valuable time on when it appears that everything is urgent, everything is important and nothing can be delegated to anyone else.

This predicament can have many repercussions on managers’ time and effort, as they switch from issue to issue, prepared to fight fires at every corner.

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How To Create A Culture Of Accountability

Why is it so difficult to get my people to take full responsibility for results?

This was a question one of my consultants faced when he was working with a client recently.

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How To Specifically Express Appreciation For A Good Job

Praise and recognition have often been stated as a key motivational practice for many people.

Why? Because being recognised for doing a good job strokes our ego, builds on our self-esteem, creates goodwill between the two people, develops self-worth and makes our self-confidence do a lap of honour.

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