Author: Antoinette

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How to Manage Remote Teams

This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks.  You can read the original article here. Thanks to technology and globalisation, more and more business teams are working together remotely from different locations and sometimes different countries. But even with an array of new Web-based collaboration tools at their disposal, most managers find

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what's the least you need to do

What’s the least you need to do?

What’s the least you need to do? I ask because this week I have been delivering 360-degree feedback for a client. One of the key phrases I heard most often was “I don’t have time. I have too much to do.”  The issue displayed itself in various ways.  For some it led to others thinking

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How to Influence Others Even if You Don’t Know Them Well

This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks.  You can read the original article here. One of the key challenges of being a manager and a leader is that you have to develop a much more sophisticated set of communication skills.  Leadership is all about making things happen through others and that

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mentoring in the workplace

5 Things You Need to Know About Mentoring in the Workplace

I recently ran a series of webinars for a business school for their alumni to understand mentoring in the workplace. That was the most recent of several mentoring programmes I have helped launch and run in the UK and globally since 1997. Some of the mentoring programmes have been within organisations like the one I managed

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How to develop great leaders in an organisation [Success Story]

Do you have great leaders in your organisation?  Are they delivering the results you want?  If there is room for improvement, you’re not alone.  That was the situation for one of our clients too. The client, a community health care organisation, was looking to turn around the performance of the organisation and overcome the following

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The role of mentoring in career development

The Role of Mentoring in Career Development [Slideshare]

Mentoring is one of the top strategies for career development and advancement within an organisation.  It is also a critical support for people making career changes and transitions. Career Coaches are often called upon to recommend mentoring, and to know about the information clients need to find a suitable mentor, as well as how to

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How to Develop a Coaching Leadership Style

Is there one leadership style that is better than others?  I don’t believe so.  The most important thing is that leaders are versatile and adapt their leadership style to the needs of the situation.  That was the challenge one of our clients asked for our help with.Our client was one of the UK’s largest mental

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How to create a Talent Development Programme

Is one of your challenges to create a talent development programme?  Then read on to hear how we helped a client do just that. We worked with a group of operating companies, bringing together Talent Champions from each of the Operating Companies.  They were a dispersed group working for different companies but coming together to

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Seven Steps to Effective Partnership Working

Partnership working is a fact of life for many organisations these days and the language of collaboration is becoming the norm.  But what does partnership working mean and how can you develop a collaborative working relationship with others? The difference between a partnership and a team First, it is worth recognising there are some distinct differences

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