We live in hard times currently, with our teams of people struggling with no pay rises, limited bonuses (unless you’re a banker ) and longer hours – just to keep our businesses afloat. If you’re the manager of a team, you will know that a motivated team is a more productive team!
Continuing the theme of motivating people without having to spend too much money, here are 5 key ways you as a Manager can motivate YOUR team:
It’s all going well , and you’ve started to get comfortable with this management business. Or perhaps it isn’t going well and you are now looking for someone to blame. Stop! Effective Managers take time to review what is going well and what could be improved going forward without assigning blame. They know that assigning [...]
Leaders and good managers are always aware of what’s going on around them. They know what is happening outside of their organisation, within their own business and within their own team. They do this by having effective listening skills. Through good listening skills you acquire information, enabling you to identify and clarify issues, make decisions, [...]
Before I started my own consultancy business, I worked for an international IT outsourcing organisation. We took on a major project to design the adminstration system to mange free TV licenses for people over the age of 75. Now, I can’t tell you who the client was, but suffice to say, they were made up [...]
Many years ago, in a very rash state of mind, I declared that I was going to become a black belt in Karate. I wasn’t especially fit, but having been brought up on a steady diet of Bruce Lee films, I had the romantic vision of being able to defend myself against all possible physical [...]
Effective Project Managers seek to understand the motivation and skills of every individual in their team. They create teams that make the most of these individuals and create an atmosphere of mutual trust and understanding.
New year’s resolutions can be a bit of a cliche, but this is actually not a bad time of year to take a step back and think about what you want to do next year to make your business more successful. Here are my suggestions:.
Over the next few days, I’ll be blogging on the 7 Habits of an Effective Project Manager. These are based on my accumulated experience as a Project Manager, Programme Manager and manager of other Project Managers over the past 30 years or so.

Business innovation is a vital ingredient in raising the productivity, competitiveness and growth potential of modern economies. Essentially, Innovation is the successful exploitation of new ideas. These can be ideas for products, services or processes. It includes both radical new ideas and incremental changes to existing ones. All businesses can, and should, innovate.
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Earlier this year I was interviewed by Caroline Eveleigh at Anatec Software and Systems. Caroline is an avid blogger on performance management amonst other things, and she asked me how you could measure Innovation.
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