Delegation in Management – Why Leaders Need To Delegate and Why They Don’t
Delegation in management is a must-have tool in today’s businesses. Many of us struggle with or won’t do it. Here are some of the reasons why we don’t delegate but should.
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Leading a Team You Were Once a Part Of
Leading a team you were once part of is a daunting task. I this post, I share some lessons I learnt about taking over a team I was once a member of along with some tips to make the transition from team member to the leader of the team.
People Are Not Mushrooms – Don’t Keep Them In The Dark
Do you have a communication strategy that serves to keep your team and people in your organisation updated? People don’t like to be kept in the dark and, in this post, we look at the impact of not communicating and the benefits of having a more planned approach to communication.
What is Experiential Learning?
[toc] What is Experiential Learning? Experiential Learning is the process of learning through a direct experience or simply put learning from experience. This means that learning is accomplished by staging certain scenarios or exercises that delegates get involved in and learn from this experience instead of listening to a trainer or lecturer talking about a … Read more
10 Top Tips for Managing Time Effectively
We could all do with a little more time in our day. This post looks at 10 top tips for managing time effectively. We share tips like this in our time management training course. We hope you find these ones useful.
Are Great Leaders Born or Developed?
Are leaders born? Are leaders developed? In this post I look at the debate that often comes up in our leadership skills training course and offer some thoughts on this.
Business and Leadership Lessons From The Apprentice – Smell What Sells
This weeks task was simple – take a set of products, try and sell them, find out what’s selling, re-invest your money in the moving products and sell them and so on. But it seemed that both of this week’s teams didn’t quite grasp this. For this week the teams were yet again mixed and … Read more
How to Manage Change and Make It Stick
How to manage change and make it stick. This post looks at some of the reasons why change fails and ways to manage change more effectively and successfully
Why Customers are Always Right
In our customer service training course we often hear the term ‘the customer is always right’. There is often an argument that this isn’t always true. In this post we look at if customers are always right and, if they are, why.
Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Marketing
This weeks task in The Apprentice was all about creating and marketing pet food. The task was all about creating a brand and a marketing campaign that they would pitch to a group of market specialists. This week saw Vincent in charge of Logic and Glen in charge of Venture. Logic was tasked with Dog … Read more
