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Master virtual leadership: 7 key differences between remote and face-to-face teams
There are many hurdles to overcome when managing distributed teams. This skill has now become essential, so this fact begs the question: how do the leadership needs of virtual teams differ from face to face teams? To lead and manage a remote team, you need to make certain adjustments to the way you work. You…
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9 ways to get noticed at work (& still make friends & influence people)
How can you get noticed at work without being seen as “showing off”? It’s a fine line between being confident about your strengths and being perceived as arrogant. So, what’s the right way to get noticed at work, to make your partners aware of your many strengths, without rubbing colleagues up the wrong way? Here…
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3 ways your management skills are impacting your personal effectiveness
When people talk about personal effectiveness, everyone automatically assumes it is about how you personally manage and organise your workflow. Actually, personal effectiveness is as much about the people around you, and how you interact with them, as it is about your personal organisation. I can lecture you until I am blue in the face…
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6 clues that you are letting your team members get away with poor performance
If you are going to make it successfully up to equity partner and beyond, you will need a high performing team working for you. A high performing team doesn’t happen by chance! If you are going to lick your team into shape, you have to be prepared to have difficult conversations about performance with individuals…
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3 ways to motivate your team to get them to work harder
There are always going to be times when you need to ask for more from your team in your law firm, accountancy firm or other professional service firm. It may be your busy season, or maybe your firm has made headcount cuts – but the workload has stayed the same. In this blog post, we…
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5 simple ways to unlock the productivity of your team and help them take the initiative
Do you hear complaints from colleagues about their staff not taking the initiative? Do you have a team that just doesn’t seem to have any initiative? Or do you just want to know how to get people to take the initiative? If only they would do what is obvious to you – life would be…
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Has your workload temporarily dried up? Here are 6 ways to keep usefully busy!
We are used to being “too busy” – our daily lives consisting of juggling work tasks, looming deadlines, clocking out late, and then waking up to do it all over again – but somehow we manage. Somehow we manage to keep pressing on and any dreams of a ‘break in the schedule’ are pushed to…
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The only 2 steps you need to help your team members work from home (tip: it’s all about creating a new routine)
Wondering how to help your employees work from home? With the current global focus on social distancing, many firms are continuing remote working to prioritise the safety of their employees. As the UK government has strongly recommended that office-based workers work from home for the foreseeable future (if possible), this means that helping your team…
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7 ways to make sure your remote employees are actually working
The transition out of lockdown looks like it’s going to be a painfully long and slow process. What this means for professionals, especially if they are going to get through this difficult period, is that they quickly need to learn how to manage their team while they continue working from home. As the biggest challenges…
