How To Delegate When Your Team Is Too Busy

How To Delegate When Your Team Is Too Busy

You know, as a manager, you should delegate.  Maybe you need to because your to do list is no longer something you can conquer alone.  Or perhaps you want to develop your team members, give them more challenging work to do. But you look across the office and see how...

How Your Body Language Can Boost Your Confidence

I first watched this several years ago. I was on a train on my way to a customer meeting that was filling me with dread. I was there to deliver bad news and it wasn't going to be pretty. I was new in my role and I knew I wouldn't have good answers to the inevitable...

9 Confidence Hacks To Help You Speak Up In Meetings

9 Confidence Hacks To Help You Speak Up In Meetings

For many new managers, having to speak up in meetings feels like torture. Suddenly you're invited to meetings at the 'next level'. The invitation list also includes your peers (who are more experienced than you) and a layer of 'senior managers' who barely know your...

Managing Remote Teams : 10 Lessons Learnt The Hard Way

Managing Remote Teams : 10 Lessons Learnt The Hard Way

Leading a remote team is like dancing with your eyes shut. You can’t see what is going on so there is a higher risk of treading on someone’s toe. You can think you are in an amazing group rendition of the Macarena, when actually everyone else has sloped off to the bar...

Feeling Overwhelmed At Work? How To Stay Productive

Feeling Overwhelmed At Work? How To Stay Productive

Feeling overwhelmed at work? I hear you. It's time to take control to get your productivity back and show overwhelm who's boss. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend four hours sharpening the axe" Wise words from Mr Abraham Lincoln.  Preparation is, of...

5 Ways To Help Your Team Be At Their Best Every Day

5 Ways To Help Your Team Be At Their Best Every Day

How to do you get your team to turn up for work every day with a positive attitude, ready to do great work?  Trust me, the power is in your hands. There's a lot of talk about employee engagement nowadays.  And that's effectively what this is.  Creating an organisation...