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Why the World's Highest Performing Managers Talk Less and Listen More
Shona Garner explains why, before you get on your soap box in your next meeting, or your next conversation with an employee, you should take some tips from the world's most successful managers, and you'll not only get better performance from your team, you'll make your own life easier in the process!
Keywords: Shona Garner, high performance, management, manager

The 3 Secrets to Motivating your Team
Shona Garner reveals 3 simple, but vital actions you need to take if you're to improve the teamwork and motivation of your employees.
Keywords: Shona Garner, motivating your team, team, team leadership, power of praise

Why Managers with Great 'Soft-Skills' are essential in 'Hard Times'
We are in a 'credit crunch'. Times are hard. It isn't the first time; and it won't be the last. People tighten their belts and do their best to weather the storm, and businesses focus an even more critical eye on their spending.
Keywords: Shona Garner, Business, training, team building

Why Many Appraisals Don't Do What They Were Designed To Do
'Tis the season for annual reviews! As end of year looms ever closer, and planning how to ensure hitting targets becomes a top priority, most managers and staff are being asked to also find the time to complete individual performance appraisals.
Keywords: Shona Garner, Business, training, team building

How to Successfully Manage your Boss (And increase your chances of promotion)
Two critical skills which the highest performing managers have in spades are the ability to influence and persuade. The most obvious targets for your powers of persuasion are your team, and sometimes your peers in different departments;
Keywords: Shona Garner, Business, training, team building

How to Maintain Motivation through Unsettling Change
As a manager you need to get good at motivating others - but never more so than when your staff might be worrying about their jobs, about restructuring or other major changes to their work.
Keywords: Shona Garner, business, team development, management skills

How Honing Four Critical Skills Can Make You A 'Great' Manager'
Your skills, knowledge, experience and talent have likely played a large part in helping you carve out your path up the promotion ladder, and you may well have your eyes on the higher rungs too.
Keywords: Shona Garner, coaching, team, management skills

Can a Manager Create a Motivated, Conflict-free Team?
I find managers often talk of feeling frustrated or uncertain about how to deal with conflict or apathy and underperfomance on their team. As a coach, it saddens me that, quite frequently, I'm brought in to coach someone where tension, conflict and disengagement have already reached quite serious levels, and are negatively impacting individual or wider team performance.
Keywords: Shona Garner, coaching, team, management skills

How To Select The Right Person For The Role 5 Top Tips For New Managers
From your perspective as a manager, at best, this can cause tensions and lack of focus within the team and is almost certainly going to negatively impact overall performance - at worst, it can swallow up some of your already precious time, trying to sort out or find ways round the issue.
Keywords: Shona Garner, coaching, team, management skills

How managers can reduce gossip, politics, blame and moaning in their team
Do you ever think if your staff put even half the same energy into more productive and focused discussion and behaviour you'd be getting a darned sight better results?
Keywords: Shona Garner, business, coaching, team building

How to manage change effectively
A recent CIPD/ACAS report in June this year simply reinforced what I am finding in my own practice. As we find ourselves in the rather quiet period over the summer break, I'd like to share some of their findings because this is I think, quite a good time to reflect on and plan your strategy for the final quarter of 2009. You're busy, so for ease, I'll bullet some of the main points from the report which particularly struck a chord with me.
Keywords: Shona Garner, conflict, line managers, management development, manager, motivate, productivity, recessionary times, tension, training, work

Why increasing your emotional intelligence will increase your success as a manager
Getting the best out of people does not require the logic and reasoning of IQ. Getting the best out of people requires another form of intelligence entirely - what psychologists call EQ or emotional intelligence - and we all know emotions are generally anything but logical or rational!
Keywords: Shona Garner, management, what is emotional intelligence, team building exercises

People skills training for managers - can you afford not to?
As a coach, I know it's more about asking the right questions, to help you come up with better answers! So ask yourself what you can do to support your managers in the next 3 months and see what you come up with!
Keywords: Shona Garner, people skills, traiing, management

Emotional Intelligence And Leadership - Part Two
We all do it sometimes: when we are under pressure we can often feel frustrated, upset, annoyed or some other such negative emotion. As a result, we may say or do things in a way which have a negative impact on others.
Keywords: Shona Garner, management skills, self awareness, workplace motivation, intelligence skill, chain reaction

Creating Positive Corporate Culture Change - Why The Manager's Role Is So Critical
High performing companies do believe in agreeing values and behaviours; there's often much time spent deliberating and agreeing what those standards are going to be; and even much time and energy into finding ways of communicating this across the whole organisation - which is great. You're defining your corporate culture.
Keywords: Shona Garner, Management, management development, manager, motivate, productivity

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