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How To Prioritise Tasks Effectively – Get A Lot More Done!
September 23, 2021 07:00 - 8 minutes - 6.28 MBKnowing how to prioritise tasks effectively is a daily challenge for all of us at work and becomes even more challenging once you have team members to look after too. I would like to share with you 7 approaches which have really helped me in how to prioritise tasks at work, learnt and used in a 25 year management career. Learning how to prioritise tasks in the workplace and do it well is a key skill to improve if you want to become more and more effective and keep your manager happy. ...
Make Better Decisions As A Manager – A 6 Step Framework
September 16, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 8 MBGood decision making for managers is important to build trust, a reputation for competence, and to progress your career. The decisions made by managers and leaders can quite literally make or break - projects, careers, and businesses. As a result consistent, good decision making at work really does matter. To help increase the quality of the decisions you make, I want to share a really useful 6 step decision making process with you. Good decision making as a manager is significantly i...
How To Delegate Tasks As A Manager – For Results & Quicker Promotion
September 09, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutes - 8.77 MBLearning how to delegate tasks as a manager is vital for any management position. You can’t and shouldn’t do everything yourself. If you don’t learn how to delegate effectively at each management level, your management career will stall. Learning how to delegate work as a manager is not as easy as it first seems. In my first management role, I quickly learnt that just telling a team member to do x, y or z rarely got the result we needed. Learning how to delegate work effectively has more...
How to Influence Your Manager & The Leadership Team
September 02, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutes - 9.34 MBIf you want to enter the management ranks and progress, a big part of your future success will depend on you learning how to influence others at work, how to influence your manager and potentially how to influence the leadership team. Unfortunately, just having an opinion doesn’t count for much – everyone has an opinion. To influence others at work, you need to back up your opinion with evidence that your opinion will lead to improvements or better outcomes. Putting yourself in the othe...
How to Facilitate A Meeting Effectively – 9 Actions To Take
August 26, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 8.13 MBLearning how to facilitate a meeting effectively is a great skill to develop for anyone who runs, organises, or attends a lot of meetings. Facilitating a meeting effectively is likely to make the meeting a lot more useful for everyone - attendees are more likely to solve the problem or make the decision they are at the meeting for. And it is likely to be a much more enjoyable journey to get there for all attendees. In “How to Facilitate A Meeting Effectively” I share 9 meeting facilitat...
20 Ways To Build Trust On Your Team – Improve the Culture & Results
August 19, 2021 07:00 - 8 minutes - 6.22 MBLearn 20 Ways to Build Trust On Your Team. Learning how to build trust is a foundation for team happiness, effectiveness and performance – a key lesson I learnt in over 25 years of managing teams in corporates to SMEs. If you have a good manager, they should be able to teach you a lot about how to build trust in teams. For those of you that don’t have a good manager, this video will get you started with ideas and approaches to help you improve building trust in teams. All 20 ways to build...
How To Set The Right Business Goals And Get Better Results
August 12, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutes - 9.01 MBSet the right business goals and you are much more likely to achieve success, outperform competitors, grow faster, and generate more profits and cash. How to set the right business goals and then achieve those goals is unfortunately not so straight forward. I have a 5 step process to make setting the right business goals and objectives easier and quicker, which also helps deliver better outcomes. Setting business goals must start with the long-term business goals. This provides consis...
30-60-90 Day Plans for Interview
August 05, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutes - 8.93 MBBeing asked about your 30 60 90 day plans for interviews is a make or break question. This interview question separates the great candidates from the good to okay candidates. The candidate’s answer also provides the hiring manager with some insight and confidence into the value that would be created by hiring that candidate. So planning your answer to “What is your 30 60 90 day plan?” or “How would you approach your first 90 days on the job?” is pretty crucial if you want to get that job ...
How To Run A Great Team Meeting – To Deliver More Value & Results
July 29, 2021 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.85 MBIn “How To Run A Great Team Meeting” I take you through 9 tips on how to running effective meetings, saving time, and even more importantly, creating better more useful and valuable output from those meeting. We have all been in meetings that wasted our time and didn’t seem to achieve anything. The average person attends 10 meetings or more per week and spends 31 hours in unproductive meetings per month. How to run a meeting effectively can be learnt quickly and put into action quickl...
How to Set a Meeting Agenda – To Improve Meetings and Not Waste Time
July 22, 2021 07:00 - 9 minutes - 7.02 MBHow to Set a Meeting Agenda to get the best out of the meeting and not waste attendees time takes a little bit of thought. The average person attends 10 meetings or more per week and spends 31 hours in unproductive meetings per month. I have 7 actions that you can take to create meeting agendas that work, keep everyone engaged and produce useful output. These cover meeting agenda best practices and I have tried and tested these in 25 years of working in work class companies through to SMEs...
How to Run Effective One to One Meetings at Work
July 15, 2021 07:00 - 9 minutes - 7 MBRunning effective one to one meetings at work - I think - are one of the most important things to get right if you want to: · Develop your team members · Improve team effectiveness and happiness · Retain your best staff · And get promoted as a manager In “How to Run Effective One to One Meetings at Work” we take you through 9 tried and tested tips to improve the effectiveness of your one-on-one meetings with your team. Learning how to run one to one meetin...
Setting Objectives With Your Manager - make reaching your goals easier
July 08, 2021 07:00 - 8 minutes - 6.44 MBSetting objectives with your manager can be an easy process if you have prepared well or it can be a real challenge if you have not. Learning how to prepare and propose objectives to my manager helped me get better, easier and more useful objectives for me and my career development. It should be no surprise that setting goals with your manager is a lot easier when you are supporting reaching the managers goals or objectives. This, or the company or department strategy was always the fir...
Setting Goals for the Finance Team
July 01, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 8.15 MBSetting goals for the finance team that support the business growth, strength and performance can be a challenge, even for experienced finance professionals. In “Setting Goals for the Finance Team” I provide examples of 7 different areas for goal setting and provide plenty of example finance team objectives. And WITHOUT using lots of financial or accounting terms. Setting finance team goals, like setting any goals, helps create focus for the team and improve the financial management of a b...
8 Tips for New Managers - Make a Great Start
June 24, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 8.08 MBGetting your first management or team supervision role is very exciting and a little scary. Firstly congratulations and welcome to your new career of managing people. In 8 Tips for New Managers I share 8 very useful tips for those new in the manager role. We all have a preconceived image of what a manager should be like and when we start, we want to do a good job. The pressure is on yet we should remember to just be ourselves and not be someone we are not. If I had to chose tips for new m...
10 Great Tips to Manage Your Manager
June 17, 2021 07:00 - 8 minutes - 5.69 MBCreating a good relationship with your manager is pretty vital if you want to be happy at work, get a bonus, get promoted and progress your career. In 10 Great Tips to Manage Your Manager I share practical tips I have used to build and maintain good relationships with wide range of managers and indirect “bosses”. When thinking about how to manage your boss’ expectations, a great place to start is to ensure you are doing a good job or at least average compared to peers. That way, when mana...
How to Set Objectives for the Team
June 10, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutes - 8.56 MBIn How to Set Objectives for the Team, I take you through a tried and tested 5 step approach to set clear, actionable, objectives which have team member buy in. If you are going to put the effort into objective and goal setting, you want to ensure that your objectives help drive accountability and deliver improving team performance. There are many elements that go into how to improve team results. Setting employee goals and objectives is an excellent place to start. Objective setting fo...
Why We Should Set Objectives for Our Team
May 27, 2021 19:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBWhy we should set objectives for our team may seem obvious to some, yet many teams I started working with didn’t have objectives or specific goals to achieve. Why set objectives? Setting objectives or goals is a great place to start improving team performance at work. Setting goals for a team helps everyone. Objectives provide direction and focus, helps create accountability, and I think must be one of your team management techniques. Setting objectives for a team does take time and e...
How to Give Performance Feedback to Team Members
May 20, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBIn “How to Give Performance Feedback to Team Members” I share how to tackle giving really useful feedback – positive and negative - to others on their performance that they will appreciate and that will help them improve what they do. Giving performance feedback to employees can be hard to do. If feedback is negative, we are worried about offending the other person, creating resentment, ruining relationships, and making our own lives harder at work. When we are giving positive feedback, ho...
How to Increase Accountability in My Team
May 13, 2021 07:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBHow to increase accountability in my team is a question that I have been asked many times by clients, team members and colleagues. In this podcast, I explain why many managers find holding team members to account difficult and go through what you should do to make increasing accountability in your team much easier. The benefits you get of increasing accountability in your team in terms of team performance and team morale far outweigh the work to increase accountability. Increasing accou...
How to Hire a Successful Team
May 06, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBHow to hire a successful team is a critical task for any manager or leader in a growing business. As a manager of a team your performance is closed linked to the performance of your team. Hiring the right team members can make or break a team. In this Podcast “How to Hire a Successful Team - 7 Tips for Getting it Right”, I share my best tips of how to hire the right people for your team to help you deliver great team performance with a team you love working with. When creating a high-...
How to Manage Expectations at Work - 5 Step Tried and Test Method
April 29, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutes - 9.25 MBHow to manage expectations at work are essential skills to learn and improve no matter what you do. Use these 5 tried and trusted steps do a brilliant job of setting expectations at work. Set and manage expectations well and you will be: 1. Easier to work with 2. Colleagues will like you more because you don’t let them down 3. You are perceived as a. more professional b. a team player ...
How to Motivate a Team – 10 actions to take
April 22, 2021 07:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBHow to Motivate a Team is a question many managers and leaders ask. In this video I take you through 10 tried and tested actions you should take to motivate your team. I always felt that the more that I could do to improve the team, to train and coach them and get them thinking and involved in decisions then their motivation would increase, and this would encourage them to perform at their best. When this happens, everyone is a winner – the individuals, the manager, and the business. How d...
How to Develop Your Best Team Members
April 08, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutes - 9.36 MBHow to Develop Your Best Team Members take you through 9 actions that you should take to get the most from your best team members and keeping them within your team. How to develop your best team members is a pretty tough challenge as a manager. So if you are lucky enough to have one or more star performers on your team, how do you go about managing and developing them? There are lots of options available, as I share lots of tips from my 25 years of managing and leading teams, in corpora...
8 Ways to Improve Managing Teams Through Change
April 01, 2021 07:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MB8 Ways to Improve Managing Teams Through Change shares 8 ways to improve managing teams through change, giving you a list of proven practical steps that you can put into place straight away. Change is constant in today’s workplace, so managing staff through change is also a fairly constant job for anyone managing teams in business. Managing teams is not easy at the best of times and during periods of change, even harder. Use the experience I have build up in over 25 years of managing te...
How to Motivate Team Through Change
March 18, 2021 08:00 - 12 minutes - 8.68 MBIn “How to Motivate Teams Through Change” I take you through 8 factors - that if you get right – make a huge difference in motivating teams through change (and are very useful in day to day management)
5 Steps to Manage Difficult Employees
March 11, 2021 08:00 - 12 minutes - 8.83 MBIn “5 Steps to Manage Difficult Employees” I take you through 5 tried and tested steps to make managing difficult employees easier. ----------------------- In this podcast “5 Steps to Manage Difficult Employees” I explain why, as a manager, doing nothing about difficult employees is the worst option for all concerned. You must take action no matter how difficult it is. Taking action can be daunting and it is certainly emotionally and energy draining. So use these 5 steps to make takin...
How Do I Prepare for a Management Interview
March 04, 2021 08:00 - 11 minutes - 7.66 MBIn this podcast “How do I Prepare for a Management Interview” we take you through 5 key areas you must include in your preparation if you want to get that job offer. ---------------- Take a look at the online resources and courses we offer to job-hunters: https://enhance.training/job-hunting-courses-and-resources/ ---------------- In this podcast “How do I Prepare for a Management Interview” takes a look at 5 key areas you need to consider and prepare for other than just answering al...
How to Combine Pricing Strategies to Maximise Price
February 25, 2021 06:00 - 8 minutes - 6.2 MBHow to Combine Pricing Strategies to Maximise Price takes you through why combining pricing strategies with marketing strategies can produce fantastic results for your business and your customers and consumers. In this Podcast “How to Combine Pricing Strategies to Maximise Price” we go through how to combine Cost Plus, Competitive and Value pricing strategies, how to maximise your price compared to the value that you offer and take a look at why finding the right comparisons to your produc...
Value Pricing: The most profitable way to price your product
February 18, 2021 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.45 MBIn this Podcast we take you through how value pricing can benefit your product and your business. We look at why it is seen as the most profitable way to price your product and whether it is applicable to you. When pricing your product, you really should be value pricing. Pricing can be confusing, and I appreciate it is tempting to add up your costs and ‘just add a bit’ or to copy what someone else is charging. However, while this might be quick, it really is unlikely to be doing your pr...
Value Pricing: The most profitable way to price your product
February 18, 2021 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.45 MBIn this Podcast we take you through how value pricing can benefit your product and your business. We look at why it is seen as the most profitable way to price your product and whether it is applicable to you. When pricing your product, you really should be value pricing. Pricing can be confusing, and I appreciate it is tempting to add up your costs and ‘just add a bit’ or to copy what someone else is charging. However, while this might be quick, it really is unlikely to be doing your pr...
How to Prepare for an Interview
January 13, 2021 20:00 - 12 minutes - 8.35 MBInterviews are competitive - sometimes very competitive – so the right preparation is a must if you want to get that job offer. And the higher up the career ladder you do, the competition gets tougher because there are less jobs and the competition is better and just like you. In this podcast, I talk about how much preparation you should do for professional level jobs and above, the four key factors that will decide if you pass or fail, and I give you nine key tips for preparing for your ...
Why Improve My Interview Technique
January 05, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes - 6.37 MBWhy should you improve interview technique may seem like a no-brainer to some of you thinking about getting a new job. And to others you might be asking how my does interview technique really matter – surely I will get a job based on my skills, experience and attitude not how brilliantly I answers questions. Which approach is right? In this podcast we set out 9 key factors that go into interview technique, how much interview technique really matters in an interview and at the end of the p...
Competitive Pricing Strategy - An Introduction
December 29, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes - 7.42 MBIn this podcast we take you through competitive pricing and we show you why copying isn’t always the best answer. When you don’t know how to price your product, it is tempting to look at the competition and use their prices as a basis for yours. But what happens if you end up copying the wrong answer? Or what happens if your competition reacts to your price; what should you do then? It is said that ‘Pricing is either your most powerful weapon or your worst enemy.’ We have created this ...
2020 Lessons
December 21, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes - 8.35 MBIn this podcast we take you through business lessons learnt from 2020. We have surveyed colleagues and clients, leaders and directors in multi-national companies and small businesses about what they have learned in 2020. We have discussed the major impacts and the key business lessons that we should take forward. These have been grouped these into 7 main 2020 lessons for you. 2020 has been a challenging year but rather than simply banishing it from memory let’s learn from it. Let’s learn ...
Cost Plus Pricing - Too basic or the way forward?
December 15, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes - 6.99 MBIn this podcast we take you through the method that 80% of businesses use as part of their product pricing. Cost plus pricing. It is one of the founding pricing methods but is it too basic or can it still be key to business success? It is said that ‘Pricing is either your most powerful weapon or your worst enemy.’ We have created this product pricing series to provide tips to help you make pricing work for you and certainly not be your enemy! In this first episode we look at what cost p...
Succession Planning and 4 Reasons Why it Helps You
December 08, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes - 8.37 MBSuccession Planning is absolutely in your interests if you are a business owner or a person seeking promotion. It can also be very useful to attract and retain great employees, increase the value and performance of a business and reduce the stress when one of your team moves on. Find out why in this video as we share tips on how to set up effective business planning and discuss why many people worry about putting succession planning in place.
Why Business Planning is Still as Relevant as Ever
December 01, 2020 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.81 MB2020 has been an unforgettable year with massive changes in business environment. Business planning remains essential for those business looking to outperform through these turbulent times. This podcast gives you ideas and 4 steps to make your planning flexible and adaptive to rapidly changing situations and events, thus keeping your plan useful and relevant. “An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing”. A quote from Dale Carnegie sums up planning brilliantly.
How to Write a Cover Letter
November 17, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes - 7.13 MBLearn how to write a great cover letter with the tips and examples within this podcast. The purpose of writing a good cover letter is to make your application stand out and improve your chance of being invited to interview. Too few job applicants write a covering letter or if they do, they waste the opportunity with a generic or poor covering letter. In this podcast, we take you through how to structure your cover letter, what to include and what not to, and we provide you examples for ...
What is Working Capital
November 10, 2020 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.62 MBWorking capital – what is it and why should I care about it? Working capital is the biggest investment most businesses make, sometimes without realising it. Don’t manage your working capital well, and your business could fail. In this podcast we explain exactly what working capital is using every day language and share some simple examples. Working capital is an a essential part of running any business from start ups to global corporates. Listen to our podcast to find out why.
30-60-90 Day Plans for Managers and Leaders
November 03, 2020 08:00 - 13 minutes - 8.99 MBStarting a new job is an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming. Creating a clear 30-60-90 day plan can help you adjust to your new position quickly and effectively. In this video, we discuss a 30-60-90 day plan for managers, explain how to create the 30-60-90 day plan and provide useful tips to help you get started on your own In “30-60-90 Day Plan for Managers” we cover what is a 30-60-90 day plan and take you through why creating a 30 60 90 day plan as early as possible is absol...
What are your Strengths - Interview Question Answer
October 29, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes - 7.27 MBWe take you through how to create a great answer to “What are your strengths”, the classic interview question. This question or a variation is expected by all interview candidates, so to beat your competition you need a better answer than they give. We provide lots of tips for you to decide on your strengths, we talk through what the interviewer is looking for and provide example answers
What is your Management Style – Interview Question
October 22, 2020 07:00 - 8 minutes - 6.05 MBWhat is your management style is a frequently asked interview question and preparing a good answer is a must. In this podcast, we take you through what the interviewer is looking for, how to structure your answer and give you example answers for junior and senior manager positions
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Interview question answered
October 15, 2020 07:00 - 8 minutes - 5.86 MBIn this podcast we take you through how to answer the “Where do you see yourself in 5 years” interview question and talk you through five pitfalls to avoid. This interview question seems fairly easy to answer yet it can be easy to talk yourself out of a job with this question. This make this interview question tough to answer well and it definitely pays to plan out your answer in advance. Use this podcast to understand what is being asked and learn how to structure a great answer. We hav...
Why are you looking for a new job? Interview Question Answered
October 08, 2020 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.31 MBWhy are you looking for a new job is asked during every interview process and it may even be asked in each interview you attend. Say the wrong thing and you can quickly be out of the running for the job - so it is important to plan your answer to this question. In this podcast we are going to take you though what the interviewer is looking for and how to structure your answer. And we have lots of tips and examples throughout the podcast.
What is Value Pricing?
August 26, 2020 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.58 MBWhat is Value Pricing and when should I be using it? Anna, with over 15 years working in top FMCG companies like Cadburys and SAB Millar, takes you through what Value Pricing is and when it should be used. Get great tips and learn the basics of value pricing. Your business will thank you for it.
Pricing Strategy and 5 eye opening reasons to have one
June 23, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.42 MBIn this podcast on pricing strategy, we are going to explore five eye-opening reasons why your business will thank you if you give pricing strategy the attention it deserves. Five reasons that will make you want to get your pricing strategy right. Pricing is one of the classic “4 Ps” of marketing (product, price, place, promotion) and whilst we love pouring over the other 3, pricing often gets left out or left until last, almost as an afterthought. In this podcast we let you discover why a...
How to Price a Product for Retail
June 10, 2020 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.68 MBHow to price a product for retail? First you need to put yourself in the retailer’s shoes. Imagine you are the retailer. What do retailers want? Retailing is a tough environment. Even before COVID-19 hit us, retailers have had to work hard to juggle declining footfall, increased competition from online and increasing costs. However, they hold the key to your consumers, to the people you want to sell to. To get your products to more people, you need retailers. To grow your business, you need ...
How to Write a CV
June 07, 2020 11:00 - 12 minutes - 8.86 MBGetting a new job can be a stressful and time-consuming process. It can be disheartening when you are sending your CV to companies and not getting interviews. Or you might be getting interviews but not at the companies you want. Reduce the frustration by working on improving your CV using the tips in this podcast. Jess Coles shares his experience of reviewing 1,000’s of CVs while a hiring manager for over 20 years of his career. Jess has recruited CEOs to junior staff and has worked at top ...
How to Succeed at Interview
June 07, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutes - 9.99 MBGoing to interviews can be a stressful nerve-racking experience, even for those with plenty of experience. The nerves, worrying about what interview questions are going to be asked and will you have a good answer for them. Being in the spotlight and quizzed on your experience, what you think and have done is not most people’s idea of fun. Interviews can be a fun challenge, a duel between you and the interviewer. You want to talk about all the good stuff; the interviewer wants to know about...