Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the previous article , I introduced the concepts of boss and lead management, and it seems clear-cut that the latter is superior and preferable. In this article, I explore why managers might struggle to implement lead management and fall back into the bad habits of boss management. What’s wrong with him?”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

When you’re part of a company’s management structure, there will be moments when you’ll have to represent a decision your bosses made that you don’t agree with to your team. Carrying the proverbial flag on behalf of the powers-that-be won’t feel good, but that’s part of the job.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Being assertive enables you to put forward your ideas, thoughts and opinions by expressing yourself effectively. It also helps to earn others’ respect and boost your self-esteem. I’m not ok means I don’t feel able to express myself or my ideas. You’re not ok means I’m not respecting you, and don’t value your ideas.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” I complied; he didn’t. Not necessarily.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I said that if the coach wanted to move up the hierarchy in the organization, the coach needed some form of management experience. Experience helps us see and feel the pressure our clients have. As a coach, you might represent others to your client.). While everyone might feel the pressure of “do more!!!

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The Management Centre

MAY 8, 2023

In this blog, =mc Director Charlotte Scott shares practical advice on how to motivate your teams. I want my team to feel motivated in their roles – what can I do? It’s generally agreed that motivation is a good thing – and a topic all managers think about at some point. Your motivation is also important.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We may feel “stuck” in anger, anxiety, and confusion. But, we want to demonstrate resilience to our team and we want to maintain a good relationship with management. In our work, there are times when we lead but there are also times when we must follow — and we may not always agree with the path we’re told to follow.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Yes, you’re stretched thin and you’ve got a lot on your plate, but when you come across as too busy for your employees, you make them feel as if they don’t matter. So how can you be a supportive manager if you manage a large team? It comes down to giving your team members agency and autonomy.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As managers, when we offer a job or a promotion, those emotions tend to be happy. If we try to bury those feelings, we might appear as if we don't care. And if we feel very bad, we might placate the other person and apologize. (See I start by acknowledging my feelings. Start with Your Feelings. But layoffs?

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Halo Psych

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

6 ways impostor feelings manifest It’s sheer luck that you’ve got to where you have. Focusing on failure and ignoring your successes. Things to pay attention to Not putting everything at the door of the individual – is it systemic issues leading someone to feel like they’re not good enough or that they don’t fit in?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The answer largely depends on whether you’re feeling anxious about the social interaction. Most of us — even the most socially confident — have moments when we feel a bit more socially anxious than usual.

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Halo Psych

JANUARY 8, 2024

We talked about things people can do if they’re feeling anxious about going back to work after the Christmas break. Here are my five top tips: Understand the root cause of any anxiety you might be feeling Talk it through with someone, or write those thoughts down on paper. I’d really appreciate it.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Our Management Tip of the Day newsletter continues to be one of HBR’s most popular newsletters.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

As work and non-work activities become increasingly blended, having a clear purpose and creating your own definition of work-life balance will be critical to a sustainable career. Know where you spend your time. In order to manage your money, you need to know how much is coming in and where it is going. Networking.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 9, 2024

Are you an aspiring manager? Do you feel the pull towards leadership? In this article, Petia Tzanova, =mc Learning and Development Consultant draws on her extensive career to outline key considerations when taking your first step into management. Believe you me, your future team and self will thank you for it.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

How can you prevent an overstuffed backlog, roadmap, or all those great ideas from interrupting your team from finishing its work? Change your language. Implement or Fix Customer-Facing Problems When customers report problems, how does your organization react? That means you have options, not a backlog, for your products.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 8, 2024

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. This month we respond to a very busy HR manager, who is being pulled in different directions. The thing is, I know our managers are busy too and they genuinely appreciate me. I totally feel you!

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. The managers worry that the teams can't finish “anything on time.” That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. One of these managers said, “I have so much uncertainty and ambiguity. I feel as if I can't make a good, final decision.” However, managers don't create features as agile teams do.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. Research has shown that people’s ability to know their own true feelings and to predict their own behavior is not reliable. Ask them how that felt, and how they managed to work around the problem.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2023

Has your team lost sight of its purpose and the goals you’re working toward together? Or, maybe your team just doesn’t feel like a team anymore? Maybe team members feel disconnected, invalidated, or frustrated, and even minor issues are creating friction?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 26, 2021

A senior manager, SM, receives an estimate the SM doesn't like. SM asks a “lower” (on-the-hierarchy) manager/leader, LM, to change the estimate. What does that “lower” manager do? You might choose different words, but the idea is you, as an LM, support your team. Feelings change people's minds.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 2, 2023

I find it really hard to say no to colleagues’ requests – never mind my manager – and I feel like I’m drowning at times. One of the biggest challenges participants talk about on our management training courses is ‘I just don’t know how to say no.’ What we can do, though, is to actively manage these requests.

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Nash Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Evaluating Your Team's Psychological Safety In teams with high levels of psychological safety, you can observe certain behaviors and attitudes that contribute to a positive and productive team environment. Take a look at the following list, and maybe consider engaging in an evaluation of your own team. But this isn’t so!

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And whether or not you’ve been away, the effects of the days getting shorter and nights getting longer can leave you feeling drained. Do you feel like you aren’t working at full power? Then take these two steps to boost your energy…. To boost your energy you need to focus on the right things for you.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Pain does not feel good. Suffering does not feel good. How to Live an Amazing Life – Sign Up for Free Tips and Strategies for your Career and Life. This form collects your name and email so that we can add you to our email list that delivers the free resources you are requesting. We’ll never spam you or share your email.

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The Management Centre

AUGUST 2, 2021

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. This time, the issue comes from a manager with a very common challenge: holidays and the impact they have on workload. I am good at my job and most of the time feel good about work. Hey there =mc.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The challenge with failure is it feels just awful. And when you feel awful, you’re hardly in the mood to learn. You’ve just paid your emotional tuition. The only question is whether you open your eyes, look for that lesson, and learn from it. We’ll never spam you or share your email. First Name *.

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The Management Centre

JULY 28, 2023

mc’s Systems Model outlines 3 elements in getting your project rationale right. For example: In order to have all critical information available in one easy to access place; in order to better understand how the technology will enable our work; in order to ensure our people feel confident talking about our research. The solution?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Angry, Dan fires two people: The person who made the bad deployment and that person's manager. Dan fires that person and the manager, too. Who wants to work somewhere where the senior management fires you for making a mistake—especially when you're overworked and tired? Dan and his peers feel the pressure.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. Picture a fall Friday morning in a downtown office.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But managers often limit their definition of curiosity to simply a way to get information. We need to move away from “shallow curiosity” and embrace “deep curiosity,” where you unearth stories, values, experiences, and feelings. Curiosity is a powerful practice to infuse into a company’s culture. But they need to do so intentionally.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2022

The more you write and publish, the less you allow your Imposter Syndrome to win. Write More, Especially When You Feel Fear. Other times, I need to go meta, to write about why I feel fear. Use Your Writing Tools. Manage Your Imposter Syndrome. Fool your Imposter Syndrome.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Work was a place where you did your job, and home was a place to air your dirty laundry – literally and figuratively speaking. To share negative sentiments at work was deemed unprofessional and could put your career in jeopardy. This can leave many people feeling worse rather than better.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s difficult to manage your feelings when getting feedback that feels too harsh, overly nice, or somehow dishonest. We all struggle with feedback, so extend a little grace to yourself for having strong emotions, and to the other person for initiating a difficult conversation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2023

It leaves your team feeling valued, affirmed, and connected emotionally with you. Rushing from meeting to meeting leaves most leaders feeling trapped with little time to listen. The good news is that exploring, developing, and applying active listening can elevate your employees and grow your business.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Historically stable jobs such as those in software development, information management, and mathematics have seen some of the most dramatic drops in the workforce , with reductions in hiring of as much as 50% in some sectors and layoffs reported by watchlists on TechCrunch and other sites. Perhaps a consultant can help.

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