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The Problem with Self-Evaluations
Do you encourage a competitive or cooperative atmosphere in your workplace? How you answer that question may indicate that you are not getting the best out of your employees. In general, even if there is a cooperative element in your work, western culture tends to...
Freedom! Why a personal sense of autonomy is a good thing
What was it that Mel Gibson says in Braveheart? “They can take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!” I quite like my freedom and I am sure you appreciate yours. We dislike it when we don’t have some level of control over our lives. In fact, depression can...
Why is Neuroscience important in Management Training?
Management training is about understanding about how to get most out of people and it needs to start with ourselves. Understanding how to get most of yourself is important, how to manage it and how to manage other people. Overtime, management training has tended to be...
Does management training need an overhaul?
Does management training needs an overhaul? This is a great question and there are several things that you want to consider when making up your mind about whether or not management training needs an overhaul. How much do you remember when going to management training?...
Are you getting value from your Management Training?
Are you getting value from your management training? When considering this question, there are a few areas that might be useful to focusing on. First is what are your outcomes from your management training? If you are clear on how you’ll know when you are getting...
What has brain science got to do with Management Training?
What can brain awareness bring to management training? Management trainings are all about learning to manage people. Brain awareness is all about how the brain and mind works. Managing people becomes hugely more easy if we understand how the brain works. Brain...
Predictability in Management Training
Management predictability is important in several different areas. The first of which is in the management training itself. You may have heard that it’s good to have structure in trainings but not been entirely sure why. The brain responds very well to having...
The Top 5 Management Tips
The first management training tip is to manage yourself first and others second. Sometimes people jump in with managing other people first, which I think, can be a mistake. There are many benefits to managing yourself first and becoming a brilliant manager of...
Management Training Myths
Management Training myths look at the common misunderstandings that end up devaluing management trainings. Management training myths cost companies dearly. The first of these myths is that once someone is a certain way, they can’t possibility change. For example, if a...
What’s the real deal with status in management?
As a manager, or as a person being managed, you will probably have had both good and not so good experiences. The reasons for this could be complex, but lets extract one component that has proven to be very powerful. Your view of yourself within an environment has an...
The Power of Praise
How did you feel the last time you achieved something tricky? What about the last time someone paid you a sincere compliment? A recent study looked at the real weight a person’s self esteem had. We know from personal experience that feeling good about ourselves is...
Are your teams learning from one another’s successes or from their failures?
It is popular to think that people learn from how other people succeed, and that failure doesn’t really exist...only an opportunity to learn. This could be even more true than we previously realised. A quick way to improve your efficiency is to learn from other’s...
Managing opinions; are you favourable?
Do you remember being around a colleague when they are speaking poorly of someone else? How did it make you feel? What about someone who is known for tending to speak negatively about lots of different people? We have a natural...
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