Advanced People Management - What They Don't Tell You!

We hear a lot about coaching. Managers are encouraged to act as coaches to get the best from their teams, but often the specific skills involved in coaching are sometimes not fully understood.

So let's talk about the difference between managing and coaching.

Culture. You'll hear this word an awful lot as a manager or a leader. And it's very important that you understand what culture means, why it is important, and what you can do to create the culture that you want within you own team and amongst your own people.

Today we're talking about one of the biggest killers to team morale and productivity and something that managers have to establish, demonstrate and live by. That's the Culture of Fairness.

What if I gave you 5 dollars? But the person next to you gets 10. And if you both don't agree, then no-one gets anything. Would you agree?

It takes a lot of effort to get new people into your team. Hiring is one helluva process, and I've seen it too many times where a hiring manager pulls out the stops to get a great candidate in, and then acts like they don't care as soon as they sign the contract.

That reflects really badly on the manager, team and company, and can really hamstring the productivity and motivation of the new person, and at worst can even cause them to reconsider their decision to join.

Ah the performance evaluation. Regularly cited as one of the least enjoyable tasks a manager has to perform.

But that's also really dangerous - the performance evaluation may not be liked, but it's really important and can make or break the future of your team.

In this video I'm gonna tell you how you can have much better conversations with your colleagues and team simply by improving the way you actually listen to people. There's more to it than you might think.

So if you're hearing these 5 things from your manager, leadership or colleagues then that's a red flag that you might be working with some of these people. And it's certainly a reminder to always be self-aware enough to ensure you don't fall foul of these guaranteed morale destroyers.

There will be times where even the most skilled and high performing individual drops the ball. That could be a minor fumble under pressure, or it could be a catastrophic championship losing miss with the eyes of the world on them.

And when it all hits the fan the role of the team manager and leadership comes into play. This is where you come in. This is why you're in that position.

In this video I'm gonna give you some more top tips you can use now to make your work conversations more effective, more valuable and more fun.

If you’re at all serious about wanting to progress at work, develop your career! build those great relationships that everyone talks about then you’re going to have a lot of conversations.

Ever fired someone? It's not easy, and can be traumatic for everyone, but as a manager you'll have to do it. I'm gonna tell you the main reasons that people get fired.