Keeping your team engaged through change is not easy. The longer the change takes to implement, the harder it is to implement or the less clear the benefits of changing, the harder it is navigate your team through change successfully.

I share 5 ways to keep your team engaged through change & performing well.

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Leading a team through change starts with explaining why change is being made. The why reduces resistance, increases acceptance and motivates. Changing takes effort. Explaining the why is essential when taking teams through change. I share a lot of tips on how to do explain the why at the start of the change process.

To keep teams engaged through change it is really important to find out and understand their fears. Every person in your team will have something to gain and something to lose personally. Find out what these are. This is a really important part of the change management process. I share tips on how best to find their fears.

To successfully create change in the workplace, tackle the teams fears openly and honestly. This part of navigating change at work is daunting. In most cases, this part of managing a team through change is easier than many managers fear. Do a lot listening and you will be halfway to succeeding when making a change at work.

To keep a team focused through change break down every big change into a number of smaller changes. This is psychologically much easier to deal with.

Finally, when managing teams through change, keeping them accountable for the change needed is pretty important. I share how to do this effectively.

If you have any questions on “5 Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged Through Change & Performing Well”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training

To be more visible at work, I am sharing 10 practical senior leadership visibility tips. To stand out at work, to get noticed at work, you need more than hard work.

Use these tips to increase your visibility at work by creating a clear and effective plan and put this INTO ACTION.

This is how to stand out at work, regardless of your current position – trainee all the way through to senior management.

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Before we talk about how to be more visible at work, it is important to know and believe that in general better visibility in the workplace means more influence, more impact and faster promotion.

Creating visibility at work, to be more visible with senior leaders, is about developing specific communication skills. Anyone can become more visible at work. You don’t need to be super confident or have a special set of skills to start improving your visibility. You just need to know what to do and then take action.

To increase your visibility with senior leadership, focus on the work, activities and projects they actually care about. This may seem obvious yet so few managers really put this into practice in reality. Find out exactly what you bosses care about. I share tactics and tips on how to achieve this.

Next in how to build visibility at work, aim to solve your leaders’ problems. This is a brilliant way to be noticed at work for all the right reasons. I share how you should go about finding and solving your boss’s problems.

To become more visible at work, consciously and deliberately educate your bosses and leaders on the work you do and the results you achieve. Be proactive. Plan out how you are going to educate and take action. I share the methods and tactics I have used over two decades and 13 promotions to achieve this. This is great for career advancement.

I also share 10 practical actions that you should be using every week to increase your visibility with senior leadership. Each of these has worked brilliantly for me.

If you have any questions on “Be More Visible At Work – Practical Senior Leadership Visibility Tips”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training

How to be confident in work meetings is what we are covering. Use these 5 actions so you become very happy to contribute in work meetings and stand out in work meetings.

You will have a clear path to gain the confidence for speaking up in work meetings, with really practical actions you can start using immediately.

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How to contribute in meetings start with being clear on the value you can bring. There will be a least one or two areas (probably a lot more) that you will know a lot more than anyone else. When you are clear on the value you will be much clearer on how to be more confident in business meetings. I share 7 questions to ask yourself to find your high value areas to add to work meetings.

Next, I take you through the preparation to be confident in business meetings. Most people don’t or can’t do much or any preparation before the meeting. A little preparation goes a long way as a result. I share 5 more questions you can ask yourself – another of the ways to be more confident in meetings at work.

After doing your preparation, to be confident in meetings, and to impress in work meetings, how you deliver your information is important. A few minutes practice before the meeting will massively boost your confidence in work meetings and develop your speaking skills.

Finally, I take you through 8 important techniques to speak well and demonstrate your confident in work meetings. Do each of these actions and you will present very well even when you are nervous or slightly intimidated by important people in the room.

IF you have any questions on “Be Confident In Work Meetings – How To Speak Up, Stand Out & Impress”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training

Shout about your team wins at work. Praise your team to your boss. Too many managers stay silent and hope their bosses notice their good performance

If you don’t communicate your team wins at work, you are going to get lost amongst the sea of hard working people.

Shout about your team achievements and your team progress.

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Some managers shout too often and too loudly about themselves. This creates more problems and creates visibility for the wrong reasons. Instead shout about your team at work. Everyone appreciates managers shouting about team members.

Very importantly – a manager’s performance is their team’s performance. Shouting about team wins to your boss and others is indirectly shouting about yourself. A much better route to self-promotion.

Create a plan about how to shout about team progress at work and action it. Bosses and stakeholders expect you to shout about your team wins. This is part of good communication in a business. Create opportunities to shout about how your team has done.

I would suggest you communicate wins to boss and team a few times a week. How you do this is important.

I share 5 really important actions to take to carefully and clearly shout about your team wins without coming across as promoting yourself. It is really important bosses and stakeholder LINK actions taken by your team to the success and results they deliver. How you communicate and shout about your team creates those links.

If you have any questions or comments on “Shout About Your Team Wins At Work – Praise Your Team To Your Boss”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you

Jess Coles

enhance.training

Passive team management is damaging to team performance. In my experience, over 50% of managers are TOO passive, and as a result their teams struggle to reach targets.

I share 5 actions every manager should do well to improve team performance and be show active team management.

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Many passive team managers feel like that are adopting a hands off approach to empower the team yet their passive behaviour leaves the team confused, unsupported and disengaged.

I have worked alongside plenty of board directors that display passive leadership and a very passive management style whose teams struggled to improve in any meaningful way. My point – passive team management happens throughout the management ranks. There are too many passive managers, in part because they have not been taught what good active management looks like.

I share 10 signs that you might have too much of a passive management style. By reducing these behaviours you join the group of more active team managers.

There are a lot of dangers of passive team management, such as lower co-ordination and teamwork. These dangers stop your team performing nearly as well as they might. Active managers avoid these dangers by having a much more involved team management approach.

Finally, I take you through 5 actions you should do more of right now for better active management. These actions are a great starting point and ANY manager can do them. The better you do these actions, the more likely your team will beat targets.

If you have any questions on “Passive Team Management – Why Your Team Is Struggling to Reach Targets”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training

I share 3 methods to improve strategic thinking skills for managers. Demonstrating strategic thinking skills, as a manager, opens doors and elevates you in your boss’s eyes. You can help them solve some of their biggest problems.

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The first of the methods to build strategic thinking skills starts with the patterns around you. The more you work to understand the context of the team, function and business that you are in – big picture thinking if you will – the more equipped you will be for how to improve strategic thinking skills. Think about your company strategy and how it fits into this landscape. Does your company strategy enable the company to win? Does it provide clear advantage? How do you and your team help support and implement the company strategy?

The second of the methods to build strategic thinking is all about your mindset. The more curious and open you are to others ideas, views and outlooks the more equipped you will be to deal with the uncertainty and ambiguity of strategic thinking. How to improve strategic thinking is in part how to improve your openness and willingness to see the world through different eyes.

Lastly, in how to think strategically, and to actually influence and impact company strategy, structured thinking and problem solving is pretty vital. You have to bring a lot of people with you. Creating clear structure to your thinking and to the build up of your strategy ideas and direction will massively help you get agreement and alignment behind your ideas.

If you have any questions on “3 Methods To Improve Strategic Thinking Skills For Managers”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you

Jess Coles

enhance.training

I am sharing 5 proven practical ways to build collaboration in your team. The higher the collaboration in your team, the higher the team performance. There is a lot you can do to build team collaboration.

I take you through the actions for cultivating collaboration in teams.

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If you don’t have trust, you don’t have a team. To create team collaboration you first have to build trust. I share 8 proven ways to build trust in teams to get high levels of team collaboration. The leader of the team has a huge influence on the levels of trust in a team.

Next, to improve team collaboration and get great team collaboration you need a lot of communication. Without communication there is not collaboration. Show the team how to communicate. Demonstrate what you expect of them and keep encouraging high levels of communication.

The next of the actions to improve collaboration in teams is to help or persuade the team to work together. Create lots of opportunities for team members to work with each other. Ge them talking, problem solving, planning etc.

The next of the actions to build collaboration in teams is to build a helping team culture. There is a process to achieve these which needs a bit of work and discipline. Creating a helping team culture is one of the best ways to build collaboration in your team.

The final of the actions to encourage collaboration in teams is to remove conflicts in teams quickly. Conflict stops collaboration in the team. Step in to resolve conflicts quickly.

If you have any questions on “5 Ways To Build Collaboration In Your Team To Step Change Performance”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training

Top managers create clear direction in their teams to be able to consistently beat team targets. How top managers create clear direction is exactly what I am sharing today.

As I am sure you have worked out, creating clear direction in teams in not straight forward or easy. It takes work to set clear team direction. What you get back in improved performance is worth every single minute spent.

Learn the top six ways for how top managers create clear team direction

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How top managers create clear team direction starts with choosing one way (or less than 5) to measure or define direction. Most companies have a lot of data. There are so many different ways of measuring progress, it can be tempting to follow lots. Don’t. To create clear team direction choose one.

Next for how the best managers create clear direction, managers translate company strategy into simple language. People don’t follow what they don’t understand. Jargon or corporate speak is not useful. Make sure each individual in your team has targets and goals they can relate to aligned to company and team direction. Essential for setting team direction.

In communicating clear team direction, you can’t say your message once and expect it to be enough. People lead busy lives and there are a ton of distractions every single day. Keep repeating your message to set clear direction and for instilling team direction

Next in giving direction to teams work to foster engagement and buy-in from the team. I share really practical tips on how to achieve this fairly quickly.

Always keep your direction and any KPIs you use visible. Keep reminding the team every day and week about progress and the goals.

If you have any questions on £How Top Managers Create Clear Direction To Consistently Beat Targets” please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training