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How to become a director of a company and make the jump from senior manager to board director is bridging the hidden gaps between these two levels. 

Promotion from manager to director is massively helped when you know how to avoid 6 hidden gaps between senior manager and board director. I share how to turn a challenge into an advantage to get promotion to director. 

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 Free Webinar to Win Board Promotion Months to Years Earlier  https://enhance.coach/get-board-promotions-months-to-years-faster-culp015b 

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There are many hidden gaps between senior m...

 Good political skills for leaders and senior managers is knowing how to handle office politics ethically - to get support, resources, visibility and build influence so you can get things done quickly 

 Learn 7 tactics for how to improve political skills at work. 

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 Have you every delivered a strong business case, only to have it ignored? Have you suffered resources that you needed being giving other less valuable projects? Put forward great ideas that were not used? Or realised too late that a key stakeholder was quietly blocking your initiative? 

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Your boss holds the keys to your happiness, success, development and career progress at work. How to speak with your manager so they are confident in you, trust you and come to depend on you is crucial. 

 I share 4 key approaches to consistently put into practice to gain trust appreciation and progress.

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When thinking about how to communicate with your boss, the most important factor to keep in mind is every boss is DIFFERENT. What might work brilliantly for one boss may not cut it for another. 

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 How to make change happen quickly at work and for that change to be successful, is nearly always about how well you manage the people involved. You can do all the organisational things well and still FAIL BADLY at creating quick and successful change if you get the people part wrong. 

 I am sharing actions and approaches that will help you manage the people side of change brilliantly when you do them well. 

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 People expect change. Change in itself is not the problem. Sudden or unexpected change creates problems. Giving...

I share 8 people skills for management success that I think are vital to concentrate on. There are a lot of skills you need but some make a bigger difference to your success than others.

Get good at these people skills for managers and you will do a better job, have more influence, create more impact and more your career forward faster. 

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The first of the people skills needed for success as a manager is to keep your ego in check. Thinking you are better than team members, or you are...

 I am explaining the best ways to build work relationships to increase your influence and effectiveness – in professional and management roles. 

 Relationships are hugely important in doing a great job at any level and far too few people focus enough time and effort on their relationships within the workplace. The ones that do usually get ahead a lot faster. 

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 Productive professional relationships increase your effectiveness at work. Very few roles work in isolation. Colleagues provide input work, information and more to enable you to do your own work. 

 Just im...

I share ways to say no without offending – a clear formula plus 5 examples of how to say no at work.

 Saying no well is ESSENTIAL to be happy at work, to delivering what you promised and to progress your career faster. 

 Learn exactly how to say no to gain time and space to do a great job. 

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Saying no at work can feel risky, can annoy bosses, can damage relationships and can do bad things to your career prospects … IF you do it BADLY. Many people think that sayin...

When you master internal networking, increased number of and better relationships within your organisation enable you to do a better job AND help you get promoted much faster than peers. 

 How to master networking for top personal performance – I am sharing 5 practical actions I have been using for years. I got 13 promotions all the way up to board level, in part, because of how I networked internally. 

 You can gain the relationships and reputation to achieve similar levels of success with good intelligent networking.  

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How to network brilliant...

 Learning diplomatic communication has a very direct impact on your ability to manage and lead teams and do a good job. Master the art of diplomatic communication and you can speak directly and be appreciated by everyone. 

 I share 5 diplomatic practices that any manager and leader should work at getting good at for being diplomatic, to improve communication skills, to build stronger relationships and to increase team performance. 

 Building diplomacy at work is vital to win promotion quicker and get a lot more done compared to less diplomatic peers. 

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If you are worried about making mistakes at work, these 12 actions will help you stop making mistakes at work and overcome your fear of making mistakes at work.

 Making mistakes it NOT a problem in itself. WHEN you make mistakes and WHAT you do about those mistakes is the difference between being perceived as reliable, dependable and producing high quality work and being the opposite. 

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Firstly, to stop making mistakes at work, you need to create time or prioritise time to do one very important action. How...

 Building resilience gives you a huge advantage if you want to become good at anything in life. With a lot of resilience, you reach tough demanding goals. Resilience transforms leaders because leading others is a hard, tough job where you get plenty of knocks, setbacks and disappointments. 

 Learn 4 practical approaches to INCREASE your resilience. Give yourself multiple paths or routes to making all the challenges, setbacks, disappointments and failures feel a lot less daunting and be less painful 

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 Build resilience to be a successful manager! As a manager, all the kno...

 How To Unlock Faster Career Progression Without Needing To Work Crazy Hours? Getting Promoted Way Faster Than Your Competition Is NOT About Putting In More Hours, Or Being Better Than Them, Or Sucking Up To Your Boss. 

 I share 5 brilliant approaches that will speed up your next promotion and your career progress for years to come. 

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The first critical strategy for faster career progression is to create and capture your achievements. If you do the same as everyone else you will be average at best and invisible in term...

Teams and people don’t listen to job titles. They listen to leaders they know, like, trust and want to follow. I am sharing 5 powerful changes that instantly get your team listening to you.

 These 5 powerful changes work so effectively because they play directly to human behaviour and group dynamics.

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Why isn’t my team listening to me? It is frustrating, painful and insulting when a team or team members don’t listen to what you tell them or ask them.  To get team members listening to you, one of best a...

Build top delegation skills and you will achieve more in less time than 9/10 managers. To have a successful management career you have to learn how to produce your best work through others. 

 Learn top delegation skills and you will be managing more and more people and they will be doing the work. Don’t learn delegation skills very well and you will be stuck doing a lot of the work yourself as a junior manager. Which appeals to you more? 

 I share 5 great actions to delegate brilliantly

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To assess your delegat...

Conflict in teams create a lot of drama and is a big distraction for everyone. I am sharing 4 powerful actions to prevent conflict in teams

A lot of conflict in the workplace can be prevented, and you are in a brilliant position to minimise conflict. Less conflict means better team performance. Great for your team, business and you

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Every team and organisation suffers conflicts. In the best teams, these conflicts are minor and very short lived. In underperforming teams, b...

 To turn difficult employees into great employees, interdependent steps are needed. Improving beats removing hands down (less effort, faster, less risky & more). Too many managers have not been taught what to do to get improvement. 

 Doing a few actions or taking a piecemeal approach does NOT turn difficult employees into good employees, as most managers find out. 

 Learn what you need to do and why each step is important to building pressure and enabling change and improvement. 

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 In my experience it is very worth trying to turn difficult...

The most visible managers aren’t just “competent” – they display visible, repeatable behaviours that signal leadership potential and business impact. 

 I share 6 differentiating behaviours for mangers to be noticed by everyone AND avoid being average as a manager. 

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The behaviours to stand out as a manager start with building courage. Managers need to be courageous to stand out. For example, it takes courage to speak up when you have a different opinion from the rest of the room. Be brave to stand out. I explain tips to build that cou...

Become a great negotiator at work and get what you want and need to be successful. How well you negotiate defines what you work on; what goals, objectives and targets you have to hit; and the resources available to you and your team to deliver what has been asked of you. 

 Personal and career success is resting on your negotiation skills. 

 I share 6 tried and tested approaches to improve your negotiation skills and to make getting what you want at work so straight forward it almost feels like cheating.

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How to create a hard working team to deliver more is about creating motivating ENVIRONMENTS rather than increasing pressure. More team hours worked often does not move the “value produced” dial much UNLESS you combine it with another important action. 

 I share 4 approaches that motivate your team to work hard because they WANT to work hard 

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 The goals and expectations you set for a team determine how hard they will work. It is like telling a runner they have a race the next day or telling a runner they have a 10k...

 “Work hard and you will get promoted” is a big lie.  I am covering why hard work doesn’t get you to the top and what to do to get promoted. 

 In my career, I was promoted 13 times in as many years, from trainee all the way to board director level of a large company. I share how to be promoted as a high performer. 

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 Firstly, there are three huge reasons why hard workers don't get promoted. Being brilliant at your current job doesn’t mean you will be brilliant at the...

Facilitating high-output meetings is one of the most important tools a manager has to increase team motivation, culture and performance.

 Learn exactly how to facilitate meetings that really drive team performance while saving you a ton of precious time. You can use these group facilitation skills to get the best from any group: facilitate workshops, facilitate groups, facilitate teams at work.

How to be a good facilitator in a meeting starts with being really clear about the purpose of the meeting. Defining and communicating the meeting purpose can easily reduce the meeting t...

I am sharing the best first time manager tactics I know. I wish I had been more aware of and more focused on these tactics from the start of my management career. I would have progressed faster, with a lot less effort and stress. 

 Included are over 30 practical actions that you can put into practice today in this new manager success guide. 

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In this first time manager success guide, we discuss how your new role is more about enabling others to be successful than focusing on doing the work yours...

 Keeping your team engaged through change is not easy. The longer the change takes to implement, the harder it is to implement or the less clear the benefits of changing, the harder it is navigate your team through change successfully. 

 I share 5 ways to keep your team engaged through change & performing well. 

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 Leading a team through change starts with explaining why change is being made. The why reduces resistance, increases acceptance and motivates. Changing takes effort. Explaining the why is essential when taking teams through change. I share a lot of...

To be more visible at work, I am sharing 10 practical senior leadership visibility tips. To stand out at work, to get noticed at work, you need more than hard work. 

 Use these tips to increase your visibility at work by creating a clear and effective plan and put this INTO ACTION.

 This is how to stand out at work, regardless of your current position – trainee all the way through to senior management. 

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Before we talk about how to be more visible at work, it is important to know and...

 How to be confident in work meetings is what we are covering. Use these 5 actions so you become very happy to contribute in work meetings and stand out in work meetings. 

 You will have a clear path to gain the confidence for speaking up in work meetings, with really practical actions you can start using immediately. 

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How to contribute in meetings start with being clear on the value you can bring. There will be a least one or two areas (probably a lot more) that you will know a...

Shout about your team wins at work. Praise your team to your boss. Too many managers stay silent and hope their bosses notice their good performance

If you don’t communicate your team wins at work, you are going to get lost amongst the sea of hard working people. 

Shout about your team achievements and your team progress.

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Some managers shout too often and too loudly about themselves. This creates more problems and creates visibility for the wrong reasons. Instead shout about your team at work. Everyone appreciates manag...

Passive team management is damaging to team performance. In my experience, over 50% of managers are TOO passive, and as a result their teams struggle to reach targets.

I share 5 actions every manager should do well to improve team performance and be show active team management.

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Many passive team managers feel like that are adopting a hands off approach to empower the team yet their passive behaviour leaves the team confused, unsupported and disengaged.

I have worked alongside plenty of board directors that display passive leadership and a ve...

I share 3 methods to improve strategic thinking skills for managers. Demonstrating strategic thinking skills, as a manager, opens doors and elevates you in your boss’s eyes. You can help them solve some of their biggest problems.

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The first of the methods to build strategic thinking skills starts with the patterns around you. The more you work to understand the context of the team, function and business that you are in – big picture thinking if you will – the more equipped you will be for how to improve strategic thinking skills. Think about yo...

I am sharing 5 proven practical ways to build collaboration in your team. The higher the collaboration in your team, the higher the team performance. There is a lot you can do to build team collaboration. 

 I take you through the actions for cultivating collaboration in teams. 

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 If you don’t have trust, you don’t have a team. To create team collaboration you first have to build trust. I share 8 proven ways to build trust in teams to get high levels of team collaboration. The leader of the team has a huge...

Top managers create clear direction in their teams to be able to consistently beat team targets. How top managers create clear direction is exactly what I am sharing today. 

 As I am sure you have worked out, creating clear direction in teams in not straight forward or easy. It takes work to set clear team direction. What you get back in improved performance is worth every single minute spent. 

 Learn the top six ways for how top managers create clear team direction 

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I am sharing 7 great ways to handle employee push back on ideas, solutions and requests. 

 It can feel like a massive drag, difficult and even undermining when you get challenge from employees. Team member push back sucks up your energy and time. Turn what could be a hassle into incredibly valuable feedback that can easily double the value you create as a manager.

 I share the best ways to deal with team member push back – constructive AND undermining 

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How to deal with team member push back starts with th...

 Every time you speak at work, people judge you.  By getting into these habits for clearer communication and improving the confidence you display EVERY TIME you talk, you change and improve their perceptions of you 

 I share 5 habits for clearer speaking, teaching you how to express your thoughts clearly.

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The first great habit for clearer communication is to say less. A lot of people say too much. They write or speak what is their head without organising it first. For clearer communication just think about th...

Learn exactly how to sound assertive at work. When you speak confidently and assertively, you are more likely to communicate clearly, constructively and get your message heard, taken in and understood. 

 To help you sound assertive quickly, I am sharing 11 tips to speak confidently at work.

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How assertively you speak at work has a direct impact on everyone’s perception of you. The more confident and assertively you speak and communicate, the more willing others will be to do as you ask and follow where you lead. ...

 How to establish authority as a manager quickly and effectively without annoying, alienating or upsetting. The more manager authority you have, the quicker you get work done, the quicker others do what you ask, the less push-back you get and more able you are to influence and impact team performance. 

I share 5 super important approaches to how to earn authority as a manager quickly, regardless of your job title or confidence levels. 

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 Why increase authority as a manager? In short – it enables you to do a much bet...

 Every team has a worst employee. When you improve your worst employee, you increase overall team performance, usually by a lot more than the contribution of one person. 

 Any manager with people skills can improve their worst team member. You just need to know what to do and take action. 

 I share 7 practical proven actions to improve your worst team member quickly 

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 One of the most important tactics to handle your worst employee is to not ignore the problems, especially when they are relatively minor. Pr...

Staff who do not take the initiative are very frustrating and time consuming to manage. There are a number of reasons that stops staff taking the initiative. The manager is in a great place to remove these reasons and encourage staff who don’t take the initiative to be a lot more proactive. 

 I share 4 powerful ways to energise employees who do not take the initiative 

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 Staff who don't take the initiative are a real anchor on team performance. As a manager you can almost see your bonus shrinking.  There are...

 I am sharing 5 proven actions to transform poor teams at work quickly & effectively. That is take the WORST team in a company and transform it into one of the BEST teams. 

 Any manager with people skills can implement these actions to significantly improve team performance. I share lots of practical tips that you can put action straight away. 

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 How to transform the worst team in a company? It has to start with building team trust in you, the leader. In your capabilities and how you are going to help the team...

Struggling with Boss? I share 3 vital approaches to transform your most important work relationships 

The worst mistake in boss relationships is to do nothing or try to ignore the situation. Taking the right action will transform their perception of you. Want more respect, more appreciation, more praise, better development opportunities, a bigger bonus, a promotion … take these actions to transform your most important relationship at work. 

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 When you are struggling with manager relationships, the first vital approach to transform the relationship is to be perceived as good at...

Managing effort or managing outcomes – which is best? Get it right and you get a ton of benefits – better team performance, happier staff, more time plus more. Get this right more than you peers, and you will enjoy better team performance, better pay and bonuses, higher status and more. 

Get it wrong and team performance suffers, you have unmotivated staff and you have a lot less time available personally. 

I share 7 factor and approaches to maximise the benefits you get from getting a better balance between focusing on effort or outcomes. The best...

Having better work relationships makes being at work a lot nicer, more enjoyable and certainly a lot more rewarding. I share 5 tips to have better work relationships, to increase your likeability, confidence and influence. 

Take actions today to create better work relationships! 

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 The first action to build better relationships at work is to think about other people and not yourself. We all have very busy lives and spend a lot of time focused on ourselves. You cannot think only about yourself for how to create positive relat...