Mentoring as a way of developing leadership skills
One very effective way for a manager to continue their development is to identify a mentor. A management mentor is a guide, someone with greater experience and the wisdom that comes with it, someone who can offer impartial advice and support. Many senior managers find their own mentor often someone outside of their own organisation,...
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19 Dec 2014 - 14:41
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19 Dec 2014 - 14:44
Coaching and mentoring as a way of developing leadership skills
Employee surveys plus an analysis of harassment and bullying complaints revealed that many staff thought their manager had poor people management skills. The Directorate set out to improve managers' people management skills stating that all managers should have leadership qualities that is the ability to inspire their...
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18 Dec 2021 - 16:51
Management in 100 words
The England football manager claims he only needs 100 words of
English to manage the team. On the understanding that like the England
team your team understands the basics what would your 100 words be? I
came up with Yes, top priority, well done. After some thought
I added No, not good enough and stay in budget.
If you don’t do the small talk about...
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12 Jun 2020 - 11:06
How high your heels are, how often you change your hair style and how
much your designer handbag cost are not the type of observations you
expect to read about in a serious article about a chief executive of
one of the biggest local authorities . Then again this article was
only masquerading as serious journalism when in fact it was a general
criticism of the pay of chief executives...
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10 May 2024 - 08:51
The President of the association of directors of adult social services (adass) had a go at hospital managers and the cheers could be heard across social services throughout the land. Richard Jones used to be my boss so I know he doesn’t like publicly criticising colleagues in the NHS believing it to be counterproductive. So what provoked him to stick the boot in via a national news paper...
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21 Mar 2020 - 17:29
The announcement that Steve Jobs is to step down as chief executive
of Apple for health reasons had an immediate impact on share prices
and has prompted discussion about whether it is good for a company to
be so identified with one individual. The so called cult of the chief
executive is also recognised in the public sector. These are
individuals who are credited with turning around...
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