Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. Wealth Management vs Asset Management Many people interchangeably use the term asset and wealth management.

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Banking Management Real Estate Insurance 78

The Management Centre

MARCH 31, 2020

Managing a remote team of people – who are not sitting anywhere near you and may not even be in the same time zone – can be a huge challenge. Yvette Gyles, Director of =mc, looks at how to manage effectively at a distance. Avoid making your contact simply about exchanging business information – going through reports or giving updates.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 30, 2020

Next, you need to DEVELOP those ideas, insights, resources, and connections into something useful. Let me give you a scenario: You’re meeting with a client to share some ideas they can use to work with their employees virtually. And you then follow-up to get more client meetings and expand on the ideas you’ve shared.

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PM Alliance

APRIL 22, 2022

If your early schedule development efforts are too vague or too ambitious, you don’t give your team the right foundation for success. But tasks that don’t have an “owner” to develop task durations or monitor their status and report on their progress are at risk of delays. Assign every task.

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The Management Centre

MAY 2, 2023

In this blog =mc Director Yvette Gyles looks at 7 key questions to help you work out how best to manage behaviour at work. In =mc training programmes we are often asked for tips and techniques to support managers dealing with staff issues. For example, is Alex writing high quality reports, but they are late? What don’t you know?

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous other documents. Read more: A Business Case in Project Management: Why Start a Project? Read further to get a handle on them.

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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. In this article, we will look at how to conduct what is called ‘ customer development ’ – the process through which a business comes to understand the needs, pain points, and behavior of potential customers through direct conversation and feedback.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Pressures Faced by Sales Managers Are Unique to Their Role A sales leader’s average tenure is less than two years, which is far shorter than the tenure of most other managers. In fact, a recent survey by PayScale uncovered that 73% rated the role of sales account manager as “highly stressful.”Unlike Why is this?

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Epicflow

AUGUST 19, 2022

Every project management activity doesn’t exist in isolation – they are all related to and dependent on each other, may have competing requirements and/or shared resources. To make sure that the process of orchestrating projects across the whole environment runs like clockwork, project integration management should be applied. .

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Peter Stark

MARCH 7, 2023

One of the most common mistakes that managers make is not having one-on-one meetings with their direct reports or not holding meetings with any kind of consistency. That should be enough for any leader to jump on board with wanting to hold one-on-one meetings with their direct reports.

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LSA Global

JUNE 20, 2023

New Managers Struggle – The Most Important New Manager Communications to Get Right We run into the same issues when we’re called in to assess people manager performance and potential at companies. Sadly, research from CEB found that 60 percent of new managers underperform during their first two years.

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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.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 6, 2021

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. 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. Hello Management Centre, I am hoping you can help me.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

So, the importance of risk management cannot be overestimated – it’s better to stay ahead of all possible threats to your project. . What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Project management risks. developing a poor project plan), Executing (e.g.,

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2023

A Sales Meeting with an Executive is Always High Stakes Solution sellers who get a sales meeting with a target company’s executive consistently close more complex deals than those who sell at lower levels. Use their website, their annual report if they’re public and any press releases.

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Epicflow

MARCH 16, 2023

According to Gartner , by 2030, 80% of project managers’ tasks will be run by AI, powered by big data, machine learning (ML), and natural language processing. This statement was perceived as a threat to project managers, whose job was supposed to be undertaken by AI-driven project management software. But is this really so?

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. Workers with great managers tend to perform well and experience higher positive affect.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.) My peers and I were reacting to the ideas in the report.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 31, 2020

Managing a remote team of people – who are not sitting anywhere near you and may not even be in the same time zone – can be a huge challenge. Yvette Gyles, Director of =mc, looks at how to manage effectively at a distance. Avoid making your contact simply about exchanging business information – going through reports or giving updates.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Before committing to a new location, developing the move schedule, and finalizing the project plan , you should conduct a site assessment to identify any changes that need to be made to meet your needs and be ready for move-in. In many cases, a property manager or landlord can provide important details about the building and grounds.

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Makarios Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

One of the most difficult and painful positions you can find yourself in as an experienced and capable leader is needing to “manage up” because your boss does not have your back. Let’s consider an all-too-common scenario: you lead a team and report in to a vice president (VP). What does your boss need to manage his own boss?

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Makarios Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

One of the most difficult and painful positions you can find yourself in as an experienced and capable leader is needing to “manage up” because your boss does not have your back. Let’s consider an all-too-common scenario: you lead a team and report in to a vice president (VP). What does your boss need to manage his own boss?

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A good manager brings out the best in people. Good Managers Help, not Hurt. Good managers are employee focused. A good manager will take the time to coach an employee through their mistakes, sub-par performance or life challenges. Too many managers lack humanity. Good Managers Partner with Employees.

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

Travis Bradberry, author of the bestselling book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 , reports that 83 percent of people with high self-awareness are top performers, while only 2 percent of bottom performers display this trait. Rip invited me to attend one of their monthly meetings which he was facilitating.

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

Travis Bradberry, author of the bestselling book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 , reports that 83 percent of people with high self-awareness are top performers, while only 2 percent of bottom performers display this trait. Rip invited me to attend one of their monthly meetings which he was facilitating.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Are Your Managers Good at Conducting Effective Meetings? Conducting effective meetings is a fundamental management skill that has a direct impact on performance because people spend so much time in meetings. According to recent research by Bain, Organizations report spending more than 15% of their time in meetings.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Truly Great Managers Ask Great Questions. The best managers encourage their employees to reflect, learn, and grow. They do this by asking great new manager questions that show their interest, their support, and their confidence in the employee’s ability to find solutions. A Proven Method. What Difficulties Are You Facing?

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 5, 2023

News of layoffs or companies reporting the deferment of hiring decisions until mid-January. Indeed reports that hiring has cooled significantly. Job seekers report on peer-support calls and during networking meetings that they have had their interviews postponed or canceled. Compilation videos of holiday decorating fails.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Going From Colleague to Boss Creates Common New Manager Challenges Not surprisingly, most new managers struggle to make the transition from the role of individual contributor to the role of people leader. 98% of new people managers feel they would benefit from new manager training. Sadly, many are inadequately prepared.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Excellent organisation and communication skills are at the core of great project management.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Are you aware of your performance management blind spots? In a complex and fast-paced workplace, leaders need to be able to recognize and avoid the performance management pitfalls that come from common organizational dysfunctions and cognitive biases. Why recognizing performance management blind spots matters.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Since I’ve shown a little grey in my beard, I can verify from my experience that some hiring managers do not look favorably on older workers, especially job seekers. After five or so interviews, the hiring manager stated that they wanted a “digital native.”

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 17, 2021

You’ll likely be introduced to clients you may otherwise never meet. You may need to do some admin (busy work) like file status reports or do verbal check-ins with the client relationship/engagement manager. Agencies involve people in the matching process, to oversee projects, and to “manage the client relationship.”

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Excellent organisation and communication skills are at the core of great project management.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble. Fair and robust talent calibration meetings present a meaningful solution for identifying the right leadership. These meetings create an intentional space for leaders to discuss and align on the performance and potential of the talent in the leadership pipeline.

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Halo Psych

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Based on my own experience of working with hundreds of managers over the years, I’m pretty certain most are more afraid of having a tough conversation with a colleague than anything else! In fact, I went on my own journey with having challenging conversations when I was a line manager, getting wrong more often than right!

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore the multifaceted areas in which business consultants contribute to the seamless development of a skin care brand, from product formulation to packaging design and beyond. Statistic: The Packaging Digest reports that 72% of consumers believe that packaging design influences their purchasing decisions.

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