Managing people effectively is a big enough challenge; effectively managing people who you don’t see every day is a bigger challenge. Managing people you don’t see every day, who also have a line or local manager, or who also operate in, or come from, a different culture, is the management challenge of the 21st century. Modern technology has made it theoretically easier to manage across the miles, but the people we manage are still people, so the technology can just get in the way. This … [Read more...]
How to Manage Change Successfully
How to Manage Change Successfully Change at work scares the Bejesus out of most people and causes more upset than just about any other issue. All managers have to manage some sort of change at some stage in their normal working year. When a manager is tasked to manage change there is a huge temptation to concentrate on the change itself, but it is actually seldom the detail in which the Devil hides……it is people’s perception of change and their fear of the consequences and their concern that … [Read more...]
How To Motivate People Without Just Chucking Money At Them – 4th Feb 2014
Times are hard and the economy is not out of the woods yet; you can’t expect people to be really motivated, can you? Well, one of the reasons that you are a manager is because it is your job to motivate people; however the received wisdom is that pay is the overriding motivator and you may not be in a position to actually control that. This interactive, one-hour webinar will share the findings of two major pieces of work that unlock real motivators that are within almost every manager and team … [Read more...]
