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Managing Your Dad At Work
70,000. That's the number of hours you’ll spend at work over your lifetime. It’s a conservative estimate; I haven't included the hours you’ll spend commuting, or grabbing a bite during your lunch...
Beware The Angry Email
How do you deal with staff members who are difficult or annoying?That question was posed to me this week, by a manager in the building industry. One of their* staff members had called in sick. Yet...
Find Your Edge
This week I ran one of my favourite workshops - Find Your Edge - with experienced and smart teams from both Liberty Financial and National Mortgage Brokers.You will see a lot of smiling in the...
Tiny Home, Big View
In the hustle of daily work, managers often get caught up in urgent tasks, endless meetings, and demanding staff. It’s the “noise” of office world. The danger? It can consume us. And prevent us from...
Imposter Syndrome for Managers
When I was growing up, this didn’t exist. It was simply called, “lacking confidence”. Doubting yourself. Now, it's a syndrome. Because everyone needs a syndrome, right? Or might that merely be an...
5 Stars? I Was Thinking More Like 2.
It’s Performance Review time at many businesses. Oh goody. This is when you, the manager, have to concoct a bunch of words to describe how each of your team members performed over the year. I've...
Does LinkedIn Work?
A different post this week: one related to running your own business, rather than (1) management & leadership or (2) communication at work. 12 months ago, I decided to see if LinkedIn was a good...
Your Favourite Worker
Our TV recently spluttered and died. It was an unexpected death. You get used to something always working. Maybe after 10 years of staring back at me in the lounge room each night, it had simply had...
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Team Shenanigans
It’s July and that means some of you managers will soon be running a Team Day. When managing larger teams (say, 10+ staff) I liked to run my Team Days quarterly. The bigger ones were in July and...