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In order to keep up the flow of new material, I have created this section of the site, into which I will place a regular flow of unrelated, and I hope valuable items.

 

A 50 point coaching skills diagnostic

 

Loads of powerful issues to explore here.

 

List of 50 coaching Power point slides

Get these 50 adaptable slides from my e-shop for just £5 or all 19 sets for only £15.

More details here.

 

 

An 85 point consultancy skills diagnostic

 

Plenty of specific pointers here to key consulting competencies that can be developed further - all

cited to source as ever.

 

Summary of the units and elements of the Coaching in the Workplace Certificate

This is an excellent way to develop,reward and certificate coaches - if it interests let me know!

 

Value added project brief for Diploma in Management candidates

A project brief that brings genuine return on investment - with a target value minimum of £25,000.

 

10 principles of adult learning

A wonderfully powerful and concise list from Sylvia Downs...I really like this.

 

100 learning points on the management of redundancy

A list of one liners that summarise my learning around the positive management of redundancy.

Help yourself to a free download.

  

Ideal Team Activity

A powerful activity that specifies key positive teamworking characteristics and helps a team position themselves against these.

 

A 75 point Team Diagnostic - one liners on what makes a great team

Produced by asking very capable people to create one liners that describe effective team working.

 

A brief for the above activity - all you need to facilitate a powerful teamworking task

This brief will generate impressive thoughts on what a team does that makes them so special.

 

 

Twenty six key points on and evaluation of learning activities

 

I hope you find this useful - downloadable as ever.

 

 

Leadership resource

 

Click on the link above to get my summary of lists gleaned from reading over seventy articles on leadership...This is a really useful resource for those in need of ideas around leadership - isn't it

good I do the research for you?

 

 

Alphabet Names - a team building and ice breaker activity

 

A two page guide to an excellent activity I use a lot - help yourself and give it a go!

 

 

 

Eight generalisations on meetings 

 

A series of provocative statements that I find generates a lot of powerful learning...help yourself.

 

Eight generalisations on the management of redundancy 

 

Some outrageous (or are they?) thoughts on how redundancy is mis/managed. See the 100

learning points from my research on this topical subject a little further down this page.

 

 

An eight part leadership competence model

 

This is really impressive - particularly the detailed behavioural descriptions behind each - well done

to the authors.

 

 

Six leadership essentials

 

An excellent short list that covers a lot ground - source the Philips Corporation.

 

 

The Business Excellence Model

 

Here are the enablers and outputs that make up this classic quality model, together with scoring weightings. This is a fine tool for measuring organisational effectiveness.

 

 

Ten questions any organisation should ask itself

 

Here is a very versatile activity that can be completed in groups or individually to help clarify

the most important issues for any organisation...have a look and download.

 

Knowledge management

It is quite rightly a key issue nowadays - here are 22 principles of knowledge management.

 

Competency Models

Here are two management competency models - enjoy!

 

Here are eight generalisations

...around training, to prompt learning.

 


12 ways in which we spend our time

Some discussion starters that should generate a lot of learning.

 


Four myths around empowerment

 

These are direct and very interesting.

 


A 50 point time management diagnostic

 

A very versatile tool I use a lot to get thinking about how best to use time.

 


Time management generalisations


Eight discussion prompters to get some discussion
going - help yourself.

 


Reasons for bad decisions


Here are 35 thoughts on why we make bad decisions.

 


Some Generalisations on Appraisal

Always good for a discussion starter.tio

ns on and around appraisal to get some thinking and learning moving

Moments of Truth

A summary of the concise and learning-packed Jan Carlzon book 'Moments of Truth' - explaining

how to get an organisation genuinely customer-orientated.

 

What Motivates?

An excellent list of 44 one line thoughts on motivating people - many thanks to the groups with

whom I have worked that generated this lot.

 

Empowerment Bibliography

Detail of 39 articles I hold, have read, and recommend on this key topic.

 

50 tips for managing time

 

Another discussion starter - and everyone knows they can manage time even a little batter!

 


Twenty development roles for supervisors and managers

 

Here are twenty one line developmental responsibilities and roles for managers of others.

 


Some generalisations about the management of conflict

 

An excellent discussion starter - click to view and download.

 


Some generalisations about recruitment interviewees

 

This always gets people going!

 


Some generalisations about recruitment interviewers

 

Only just tongue-in-cheek!

 

50 signs of an unhealthy organisation

I am sure you will recognise plenty of these. Use it as a corporate diagnostic.

 


50 more signs of an unhealthy organisation

As with the first 50, these are not just made up, they are the result of observing, and all too often,

despairing, of real organisations.

 

Management NVQ Level 3

 

An overview of the units and elements of this key qualification.

 


Management NVQ Level 4

 

As above, but level four is a major undertaking! I assess this via the paperless portfolio - if this interests you then get in touch.

 

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