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How to select the right person for the job
Have you ever recruited someone who looked good at interview only to find out when they started that they “Were not up to it” or, “They just didn’t seem to fit in”. Most of us have made these mistakes (if you haven’t, then you are probably new to management). Why is it so difficult to select the right person? Find out how to select the right person …
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The secret to team engagement
Does “team engagement” mean asking your team to sign a formal document, or have them all stand and sing the company song?
Hardly (although I have heard of organisations doing just that). What “team engagement” does mean is getting your team members on board by being attuned to their values and motives and aligning these with your team direction. How do you do this?
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Who do you need to influence the most?
Do you need to have:
- Your manager give you more credit for the work that you do?
- Your partner acknowledge that your ideas are really worth listening to?
- Your children accept more responsibility?
- Your friends take you seriously when you really mean it?
- Your customers buy more from you?
- Your suppliers meet your quality standards?
- Your team become more energetic?
Four simple skills; when and how to apply them …
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You’ve just been snubbed . . . What now?
We all have those moments or occasions when we feel “down”. How do we get out of these troughs and get back on track again? Here’s some quick advice on how to work in the three key areas – mind, body and emotion.
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A Leadership Lesson from the Olympics
by Andrew O’Keeffe, Hardwired Humans ©2013
Lately we’ve had a lot of horror stories about sport – drugs, cheating, fighting and so on. Rarely do we hear some of the good news stories. Andrew O’Keeffe of Hardwired Humans, draws some good leadership lessons from a recent conversation he had with Sandy Hollway, CEO of the Sydney Olympics. See what simple principles Hollway followed to make the games so successful.
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The value of headlines – What will your first 7 words be?
By Andrew O’Keeffe ©2013 Hardwired Humans
Andrew O’Keeffe argues that with good personal headlines, we can dramatically improve our powers of persuasion. See what he means by “headlines” and how you can develop them.
All that glitters is not gold
After years of near-domination in the pool, Australia’s swimmers have seen their success evaporate over recent years, a sporting decline which Bob Selden argues is a direct result of a failure of management.
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Can you really work from anywhere?
Google’s Chief Financial Officer ruffled a few feathers recently when he said that he believed working from home is not the best way to generate ideas and innovation. But is he right?
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When to Manage and When to Lead
By Thomas J. Lee © 2013 Minding Gaps
All too often the terms leader and manager are used interchangeably. Is there a difference? Most importantly, does this difference have an impact on management performance? What does it mean for the everyday manager?
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How green (really green) is your office?
by Andrew O’Keeffe, Hardwired Humans ©2013
A recent study investigated the academic literature to assess the link between office environments that reflect our ancestral setting of the savannah plains – including sunlight, greenery and physical movement – and found a positive influence that these factors have on employees’ physical and psychological health and on productivity..
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