The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Being assertive at work can be really hard, and this is something many people struggle with. Our insecurities, perceived weaknesses, motivations and goals can all stop us from being assertive when we need to be. It’s a useful skill we should all aim to develop.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Every action they take is driven by their mission to help people live their best lives. Greater social impact is very much in our hearts too, so we were delighted when Calico reached out to see how we could support their managers. mc: Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us Chris, and for sharing your feedback. =mc:

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most of us never consider how culture shapes our expectations and assumptions about relationship building. But research shows that our cultural upbringing influences how we form and maintain connections with others — often quite significantly.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 24, 2023

Managers of the future will have the people skills to lead highly productive and engaging hybrid work teams. Their priority will be people-first. The #1 reason people quit a job is they hate their boss. In the US,CEO pay is the highest in the world 351 times more than the average employee. We need people-first focus.

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2022

.” We cannot get further from where we have been unless we are willing to confront our fears to move past where we are. Let us just take a minor rewind of life. Now, there are some of us who could not wait to break free of our parents and stay up late, playing pranks on our fellow camp peers. What Fear Means.

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Rick Conlow

JULY 20, 2022

Let us help you elevate people. As a result, let us reach for reach for 100% employee engagement and accelerated high performance. As a result, let us reach for reach for 100% employee engagement and accelerated high performance. GIVE US A THUMBS UP AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. THANKS FOR COMING!

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Chad Barr

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Encourage sharing with, “Discover how [Client Name] revolutionized their digital strategy with us!” Invite participation with, “Share your success story with the world on our podcast!” Promote with, “Share your #DigitalEmpireSuccess story and inspire our global community of digital innovators!”

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Action Plan

APRIL 8, 2024

I love speaking to people I don’t know. One of the key principles I always advocated for my clients is the value of initiating conversations with unfamiliar people. Last week, I spoke to a past client about this and encouraged him to speak to more people in this field. I agree, that doesn’t really work.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2024

People are feeling more stressed than ever, and it’s affecting our well-being. Many of us dwell on stressful situations, which only serves to compound the uncomfortable feelings that stress brings. The good news is that you can exit the headspace of stress.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

All of us consultants can do the same. And I argue, those of us who are successful consultants—that's the point of our IP. We help our clients pre-sell themselves on us, based on our IP. Articles on other people's sites. Your IP helps people trust you. That makes so much sense.

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Action Plan

APRIL 1, 2024

Yesterday evening, my wife and I had dinner with our friends Ann and Peter Young at their home in Ben Lomond. They are both wonderful people who I initially met while walking my dogs in a nearby park during the pandemic. But like many people, she doesn’t see herself as an Ordinary Visionary despite all her impressive accomplishments.

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On the Brink Podcast

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Hear how understanding someone's culture can improve lives I was so excited to have the opportunity to speak with Britt Titus on our podcast. The two of us are crazy about behavioral sciences, so it was such a joy to share our fascination with the difficulties people have understanding others who differ from them.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. ” Metaphors do help us make sense of the world and of our role in that world. But these metaphors no longer serve us. I'm a woman.

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The Management Centre

JULY 28, 2023

Was this in response to a need (various departments need to find information on our service users), opportunity (a new technology has become available which may support our beneficiaries) up which or problem (staff don’t know how to explain and talk about our research when fundraising)? Why was it initiated? In order to…?

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CaseInterview.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

It is the skill (or lack thereof) to discern which people you want to associate or spend time with. It’s an important skill because the quality of your life is directly related to the quality of people around you. However, many people never develop this skill. For some of us, we don’t choose our friends.

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The Management Centre

MAY 29, 2021

Project management is an essential skillset, helping people to scope, plan, deliver and evaluate their projects. On our popular Project Management programme we get a lot of questions about results, especially when scoping a project. Our outcomes are the real reason for running our project. People make different choices.

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The Management Centre

JANUARY 25, 2024

In this interview, Rebecca Cooper, Head of People and Development at ACT Training shares her experience of what effective leadership development looks like in action. Their mission to improve lives through learning stands side by side with our own at =mc, so of course we were thrilled when they got in touch about working together.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 10, 2024

As I packed up the car with my gear under crystal clear skies as the April Cleveland temps were soaring into the seventies, we saw our neighbors lining the streets, walking their dogs, introducing guests that had come from out of town to witness this incredible moment. And then it all changed.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2023

To be successful, researchers at the Neuroleadership Institute have found we must excel across three core domains of great leadership: being future-focused, being good with people, and being able to drive results. And yet, as we develop as leaders, our brains evolve in ways that challenge our ability to excel in these areas.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Now, we have at least these: Low code environments so people can write their own code. I won't address our need for personal silver bullets in this post, but they certainly exist, too.) What People Do in Product Development If you are a part of a product development team and you work alone, consider this experiment.

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Henry DeVries

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“We need to approach our video meetings with the same level of care and intentionality as we do our in-person meetings,” says Patrick McGowan, who works with people who want to level up their video presence. How we show up defines us and defines our personal brand.”.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 19, 2023

Recently, I had the opportunity to run an “Impact Workshop” that aimed to reflect on our role as advisors (“consultants”), explore our individual motivations, and agree on behaviors that reflect our role. It is typically in our DNA to focus on this part of the process. Pillar 1: It’s on us, but not about us 1.1

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But for many people it was seen as a useful add-on to consider when planning rather than an essential skill we all need to master. For all of us, project planning in 2020 has been dramatically different. We have had to adapt our projects, change the results we were aiming for, or in some cases put entire projects on hold.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 26, 2021

On our management programmes we regularly discuss what it means to be a great manager. When we ask people what they themselves want from their managers we continually hear the five key themes: direction, openness, modelling, trust and challenge. We want our managers to provide us with a sense of direction.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 7, 2024

A big challenge experienced by participants on our leadership courses is that they continue to find themselves getting sucked into day to day operational tasks, rather than focussing on the more strategic elements of their work. If we go back to our earlier example, using a coaching approach you would: C. Want to know more?

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Life has the habit of wearing us down. Will positive thinking really help us in defeat? Most of us do try positive thinking to get through it all. I have discovered that all of us are engulfed by insidious enemies more challenging than life’s ups and downs. Our Inner Voice and Positive Thinking. Frustration?

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. And we go to a conference to meet people and connect, and then spend most of our time hoping someone else will see us and care enough to meet us and connect. 3,000 students go to the football game to watch 20 of their peers play.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 6, 2021

People who want a pet that barks should not get a cat. People who want a pet that meows should not get a dog. However, somehow, what seems so obvious about pets doesn’t seem to apply as easily to us as humans. In many cases, people who were “dogs” were trying to be “cats” and vice versa. First Name *. Email Address *.

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

One way to think about this is to consider whether you are working at full power in each of the eight key energy areas, which keep us fulfilled in life: Relationships: how satisfied are you in your relationships, the people in your life who are on your side, your version of family? What’s next? The post Need an energy boost?

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Rick Conlow

JULY 4, 2022

The study wanted to identify optimism and pessimism tendencies in people. The results proved that, on average, pessimistic people die 19 percent earlier than optimistic individuals. In other words, optimistic people live 13-14 years longer, suffer less illness, and experience a better quality of life. Self-Satisfaction.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 8, 2024

Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. In this regular feature, we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them. The thing is, I know our managers are busy too and they genuinely appreciate me.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

Cluster teams have people in several locations, with collocated people in some locations. Two people sit together in the Cambridge office (location 1). In Waltham, two people sit together (location 2)—except when one of them is in the lab (location 2a). Eight people. One person works in Andover (location 5).

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The Management Centre

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As a result, we overhauled our approach in 2021, and made some further tweaks this year. We are half-way through our current process – having advertised, shortlisted and interviewed. Here are five steps we have taken to improve our process and what we have learned so far: 1. We are looking for people who take care to prepare.

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Leadership is about people-first. These leaders focus on their selfish wants and needs and not people-first. Unfortunately, daily they are harmful to as many people as Covid19. Leadership is about people-first, not profits or your personal paycheck. The gap between leaders and the people is way out of line.”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

However, very few of us know everything we need. People smiled at me. I love to support people.” People live up or down to our expectations of them.). Most juicy problems require several people's collaboration to solve. Who doesn't want to support or assist other people? You might feel weak.

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Chad Barr

MAY 24, 2023

Our ability to continuously improve and provide added value directly impacts our success and our clients’ outcomes. Here are nine compelling reasons why we must prioritize self-investment: Gain a Competitive Advantage: Investing in ourselves sets us apart from others by enhancing our knowledge and capabilities.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 24, 2023

Receiving feedback is vital for all of us. It lets us know what we are doing well. It also provides us with areas of development, improvement and stretch. So, what is stopping us from sharing feedback with our colleagues? Four reasons why giving feedback is hard: 1)I’m worried it might harm our relationship.

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