Helping Line Managers become successful Talent Managers...

You have a difficult conversation coming up which you are not looking forward to. You need to discuss poor performance with a highly talented member of your team. Preparing in advance will be critical to success.

Whether we like managing people or tolerate it as part of the job, all of us will meet personalities we will struggle to like and deal with. Rather than seeing this as a drain on your time and energy why not reframe the situation and consider the development opportunity it offers you?

You want to work with your team to make best use of all their styles, abilities, strengths and working preferences. Could you make use of team diagnostics to get the team pulling together and ensure everyone is playing to their strengths?

You’ve probably heard of the book The Peter Principle, which states that everyone in an organization keeps on getting promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. Do you want that to happen to you?

You want to hold a meeting to get everyone’s ideas – but some people always dominate the discussion while others are crowded out and contribute little. How can you get a full contribution from extroverts, introverts, senior and junior people?