Manager Skills Corner – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Effective communication is crucial for project success! 🚀

In the latest episode of the Managers Skills Corner podcast, we dive deep into this topic with Nadege Minois.

We explore what effective communication means in the project space, its significance, and how managers can ensure effective communication in projects. 🗣️

Join us as we uncover the challenges that managers and project teams encounter in this area and gain valuable tips and tricks to enhance communication effectiveness.

Don't miss out on this insightful discussion! 🌟

You can connect with Nadege on LinkedIn

Recruitment is a fundamental part of getting the right people at the right time.

In the latest episode of the Managers Skills Corner podcast, we dive deep into this crucial topic with recruitment expert Maree Herath.

Throughout the episode, Maree shares valuable insights on the recruitment process, decision-making, and employee engagement. We cover everything from understanding the significance of recruitment to the role managers should play, practical tips, common barriers, and the optimal ways to collaborate with recruitment agents.

At Manager IQ we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

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Join us as we chat with Aj Seeto about the importance of having the right conversations with your team members at the right time. With her extensive experience leading large teams and advising managers on various employee matters, Aj has identified a pattern that can help avoid serious formal processes: early conversations.

Aj's expertise in employee relations and HR has given her a unique perspective on the importance of timely communication in the workplace. As the Talent Project Delivery leader at EY and a certified Executive & Leadership Coach, she provides coaching to leaders on transformative leadership, career development, and wellbeing.

Connect with Aj via LinkedIn

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.

Mental health in the workplace is a significant challenge for both individuals and managers. Join us for the next episode of the Manager Skills Corner Podcast, where Nick McEwan-Hall will discuss this topic.

Nick is the CEO and Founder of Mental Health Coach, which provides world-class Mental Health First Aid training, counselling, coaching, and workshops across Australia.

During the podcast, we'll discuss what mental health is, why it's crucial to have good mental health, and how managers can assess their own mental health. We'll also explore warning signs of individuals experiencing a reduction in good mental health, how managers can help their teams be more mentally well, and how businesses can support their people to be more mentally well.

Additionally, we'll cover how managers can assist employees facing mental health challenges, steps individuals can take to build their own mental health, and barriers or challenges worth mentioning. Don't miss out on this insightful conversation.

Tune in to the Manager Skills Corner Podcast to learn more about mental health in the workplace.

If you wish to connect directly with Nick, you can find him on LinkedIn: (99+) Nick McEwan-Hall | LinkedIn

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.

“You can create an exciting, fun, engaging, and achievement-filled life for yourself, no matter who you are, where you are, or what you do. And once you’ve learned it for yourself, you can show your friends, family, workmates, kids, and even your worst enemy – if you have one! – how to do it for themselves”

A big thank you for Daria Williamson for joining me for this episode of the Managers Skills Corner podcast where we discuss leveraging strengths. Specifically, we discuss:

• The benefits of the strengths-based approach for individuals and for businesses

• How we identify our strengths and how can managers help their team members identify their strengths

• What should we do about our weaknesses and how to manage or assist team members with their weaknesses

• How strengths can boost career success

• Overcoming barriers and challenges

As a leader, manager, and coach, Daria has spent years developing a strengths-based approach to help her clients find clarity in their life and work. She approaches leadership from the lens of positive psychology. By digging into a person’s strengths and weaknesses, they can uncover what really makes them tick. Her unique structure helps people uncover how to achieve their goals, live more fully, and align their work with their passion.

Daria created the highly successful Strengths Deck Cards and Matrix and has used them to help countless professionals realign their work lives for the better. In February 2023, she published her book ‘Unleash Your Awesome’, which brings together practical advice and activities to help people go from bored and stressed to empowered and motivated.

Daria believes that working hard doesn’t have to feel like hard work – and that everyone has the capacity to leverage their strengths and neutralise their weaknesses to move forward. Her expertise is in navigating that balance and helping people put it to practice. Find out more https://dariawilliamson.com/

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.

A big thank you for Carley Nicholson for joining me for this episode of the Managers Skills Corner podcast where we discuss how we can help you ease into the holiday period - so you don't collapse into Christmas.

We cover:

• What is happening in the workplaces as people are moving into towards the end of the year

• Where the pressure is coming from

• What can individuals do right now to help ease into their holiday

• What people could avoid doing right now

• What can businesses and managers do to help their people ease into their holidays

• What can individuals do while on their holidays to get the most out of them and rejuvenate

• Tackling the first week back

Grab a coffee or join us while you take your morning walk.

Carley is a seasoned business leader - with a background in business ownership, adult teaching, effective communications training and resilience coaching, she brings a unique blend of expertise to the table. She's passionate about empowering individuals and improving workplace dynamics, and she believes in the power of long-term positive behavior change.

Her Peace Under Pressure program offers practical strategies for coping with workplace pressure and fostering a safe, healthy, and thriving environment. https://carleynicholson.co.nz/

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.

“Productivity is a game. Good busy team leaders know the rules of the game, they know how to play and win the game.” Kate Sotsenko

A big thank you for Kate Sotsenko for joining me for this episode of the Managers Skills Corner podcast where we discuss productivity.

In this episode we discuss:

• What specifically is meant by manager and team productivity?

• What does it look and feel like to be a good busy versus a bad busy?

• Why is it important to be productive/ good busy?

• What are some barriers to being productive/ good busy?

• Tips and tricks to get to a good busy

• Places a business can access templates or best practice ideas

Kate has had 15 years’ experience in the retail and hospitality industries, working for company’s such as Levi, Gucci, IWC Shaffhausen and CPR Vision Management and has experienced what bad busy was like and recognised how it was impacting her ability to focus on those things she enjoyed to do. Such as developing her coaching skills and spending time with family and enjoying the beach with a good book.

Kate is on a mission to create good busyness in the workplace. Because everyone deserves time for what truly matters to them. Using Kate’s techniques, leaders are able to reclaim 30% of their time. She provides consulting services, team and group workshops and trains and coaches individuals. https://thegoodbusy.com/

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.

“Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.” Greg Anderson .

A big thank you for Michelle Keenan for joining me for this episode of the Managers Skills Corner podcast where we discuss workplace wellbeing. This is the second episode in a two part series.

In episode two we discuss:

• How can an individual build/improve their own wellbeing?

• Setting your boundaries

• How can a manager help their teams to be more well?

• How can businesses help their people to be more well?

• When is a person having some challenges how best can a manager assist them?

• Return of Investment when implementing wellbeing programs

• Co-creating your wellbeing programs with your team members

• Any barriers or challenges worth mentioning?

Grab a coffee or join us while you take your morning walk!

Michelle is a Workplace Wellbeing Strategist and is helping business owners look after their most valuable assets, themselves and their people. Michelle has had over 30 years’ experience in the health industry and has helped 1000’s of people with their health and wellbeing.

Michelle is the founder of Michelle Keenan, where she helps her clients in multiple ways - her services included a 1:1 wellbeing coaching, online yoga and Pilates classes and she works with small to medium sized businesses to create and implement meaningful wellbeing strategies, so both people and businesses can thrive. https://www.michellekeenan.com/

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.

“Good health is the foundation of a productive workplace.”

A big thank you for Michelle Keenan for joining me for this episode of the Managers Skills Corner podcast where we discuss workplace wellbeing.

This is a two-part series. In this episode one we discuss:

• What is workplace wellbeing?

• Why is having a good workplace wellbeing important?

• What are the components which support wellbeing in the workplace?

• How can a manager assess how well they are?

• When a manager is taking a deep look at their team and consider how well their people are, what are some of the things that would signal their team are well?

• On the flip side what are the warning signs of individuals who are experience a reduction in wellbeing?

Michelle is a Workplace Wellbeing Strategist and is helping business owners look after their most valuable assets, themselves and their people. Michelle has had over 30 years’ experience in the health industry and has helped 1000’s of people with their health and wellbeing.

Michelle is the founder of Michelle Keenan, where she helps her clients in multiple ways - her services included a 1:1 wellbeing coaching, online yoga and Pilates classes and she works with small to medium sized businesses to create and implement meaningful wellbeing strategies, so both people and businesses can thrive.

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.

“Continuous Improvement is not about the things you do well – that’s work. continuous Improvement is removing those things that are getting in the way of you doing work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that’s what continuous Improvement is all about” – Bruce Hamilton.

Thank you, Manager IQ community, for sharing your feedback with us. A reoccurring question we get is how a manager can build a continuous improvement culture in their team. Alexis Donachie our CEO and Founder has shared her knowledge and experience on this weeks Manager Skills Corner podcast.

We share with listeners:

- What is a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture and what does it look like in the workplace

- Why it is important for managers to create a CI culture

- How to access how close your team are to having a CI culture

- Tips to create CI culture in your team

- What are the barriers to creating a CI culture

- How can an individual work towards having a CI mindset

This podcast is brought to you by Manager IQ, we work with Managers to build teams who have a relentless focus on business goals using our Engage, Empower, Evolve model. 

Want to brainstorm how we can help you and your teams? Book in a time to chat.