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For much of my career, I have supported leaders and managers to be at the top of their game. Today, I thought I’d share some of the most essential skills I feel every manager should develop if they wish to aim higher…
📌 Emotional Intelligence (EQ) - Gone are the days when a manager could just bark orders! Nowadays, it’s all about understanding your team’s emotions and motivations by supporting and listening to them.
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Got a team that’s more “meh” than motivated? Don’t worry - you’re not alone. Motivating a disengaged team can feel like trying to start a car with a dead battery, but I’ve got a step-by-step guide that’ll have them revving their engines in no time. 🚗
👉 Step 1: Listen Up: The first step is to listen - really listen. Hold one-on-one meetings to find out what’s going on. Are they bored? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Sometimes, just feeling heard can make a huge difference. In my last post, I shared some of my top AI tools! Today, I am going to be sharing the rest of my rest AI recommendations - apps I have used to totally transform my business! 🙌
😎 ChatGPT for YouTube - For YouTube, ChatGPT for YouTube is a huge time-saver if you want a video’s key points and transcription without having to watch the entire thing. 😎 Answer the Public - Answer the Public is a brilliant tool for market research. It helps you discover the questions your target audience is asking about your product or service, making it easier to create relevant content. Over the next few weeks, I am going to be sharing the best AI tool recommendations that have totally transformed my business!
🙌 Gamma.ap - I highly recommend Gamma.app for presentations and slide decks. You can even create an entire slide deck directly from a prompt - no need to write the content yourself. It generates the deck in about 30 seconds, which is incredibly efficient. Or you can copy your text in. (Co-pilot also does this but not as well in my opinion!) 🙌 ChatGPT - For blogs, emails etc. I use ChatGPT for voice-to-text and then ask it to rewrite the content properly in my style, removing all the ums and ahs. It’s 100% AI-undetectable and works seamlessly! I also use it to write professional proposals, track my health and about a million other things! (Also a great tool for tips on how to deal with difficult team members!) A client success story I’m very proud of… Here’s how we increased revenue by 30% in just 6 months!31/3/2025 Who doesn’t love a good success story? This one’s a favorite of mine because it’s about a company that was stuck in a rut and came out swinging - with no less than 30% revenue increase in just 6 months! Yes, 6 MONTHS! 🎉
Meet my client - for this, I’m going to call her Sarah! She is the CEO of a mid-sized company in the tech industry. When we met, her team was talented, but they were just spinning their wheels and not gaining any traction. Revenue was flat, and to be honest, morale was slipping! 😔 When Sarah and I sat down to make sense of things, it quickly became clear that the problem wasn’t the team - it was the lack of a clear growth strategy (something I see often!). To fix it, we worked together and crafted a plan focused on three key areas: Here’s a question that may shed some light…
Are you leading your team or just managing it? If you’re scratching your head trying to answer, you’re not alone. The line between leadership and management is finer than the difference between “affect” and “effect”! 😅 Let’s break it down… Ever wonder why so many business strategies crash and burn?
🚨 Spoiler Alert 🚨 It’s not because the ideas are bad! It’s because they’re poorly executed… The graveyard of failed strategies is littered with great ideas that never made it past the whiteboard. I once worked with a company that had a brilliant growth strategy. In fact, on paper, it was totally foolproof! But here’s the issue - they didn’t communicate the plan clearly to the team! Everyone was working hard wanting the business to do well, but they were all working hard in different directions… The result? Chaos and missed targets! So, if you’re running a business and developing a strategy that you want to ACHIEVE, what can you do differently? Here’s my advice: In my experience, team productivity is an area that most of my clients wish to look at. Is this something that could be improved for you, too❓ Do you want to get your team humming like a well-oiled machine without overhauling everything❓
Well, here are my 5️⃣ quick wins you can implement today to boost productivity: Ever feel like you’re herding cats at work? If your team is more chaotic than cohesive, you might be making the number one leadership mistake…
Micromanaging! 😅 Yep, micromanaging — that thing you promised yourself you’d never do! Trust me, I often see how easy it is to slip into, especially when you care about the details. Unfortunately though, when you hover over every task like a helicopter parent, your team ends up feeling stifled, not supported. 😔 Once upon a time, I was a Head Chef of a prestigious banqueting centre in Bristol (yes, I am a woman of many talents!). I was focused on tasks, deadlines, and making sure everything was running like clockwork. I thought that’s all it took. But then something happened that changed my perspective entirely! 🤔
It was a Monday morning (isn’t it always? 😅), and one of my new chefs — let’s call her Lisa — came to me with a problem. She was overwhelmed, struggling with her transition into a very busy kitchen, and honestly, I was too busy to give it much thought. I gave her a quick solution, and off she went. But a week later, Lisa’s performance was still slipping. |
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