How to balance boss and staff, especially when they have conflicting demands is not easy. For managers to avoid feeling stuck in between these two important groups for your success, I share 3 tactics that every manager should use.

Make you like as a manager more enjoyable and professionally successful by keeping your boss and your team very happy with you!

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How to deliver for both boss and team starts with understand what both parties want. If you don’t find out what both parties really want and need keeping your boss and your team happy is nearly an impossible task.

To balance your boss and your team, without feeling you are being batter from both sides. It is a good tactic to act as a bridge between the two groups rather than being a barrier.

How to balance boss and team starts with expectations. When you set aligned expectations with boss and team, communicate them clearly and repeatedly, you will have the least hassle and disconnect. When the desires of both groups are out of alignment or in conflict, overcommunicate and negotiate balance your boss and your team's demands.

Balancing boss and staff is not easy. It is easy to focus on one, rather than both. The wheels can start coming off the wagon if you do. One of the best ways to balance the demands of your boss and your team is to overcommunicate with both groups. Understanding and appreciate solves lots of problems.

Lastly, for how to balance boss and team members, really work hard at delegating and developing your team. Delegating well gives you the personal space and time to focus on the highest value work you can and gives you time to develop the capability of your team. This enables you to delegate even more, and is essential to progress through the management ranks.

If you have any questions on “How To Balance Boss And Staff – 3 Tactics For Managers To Keep Both Happy”, please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training

Overcome the fears that stop you giving feedback and you open the doors to a ton of benefits as a manager. Giving feedback to help your team member builds trust, increases performance, develops and a lot more.

What stops managers giving feedback – the fears we all have of annoying, upsetting, of damaging relationships. I share a tried and test approach to build your feedback skills no matter where you are in your career.

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What stops you giving feedback to your team are fears that we may upset others and cause ourselves social harm. What stops you giving feedback to your team is fear of what might happen. You have been promoted into a manager position because you have good communication and people skills or good potential in this area. You won’t mess up.

To help you overcome the fears that stops you giving feedback I take you through 8 fears and why they are a barrier in your head only. These 8 barriers to giving feedback are easily overcome with a little practice.

To reduce your fears about giving feedback, I share some really interesting survey findings about feedback. The bottom line – employees are desperate for more feedback – positive or corrective. The mindset you have giving feedback is probably the most important thing.

Then I take you through the practical steps to start giving team feedback in the lowest risk way, building up to being a master at giving all feedback, including corrective feedback.

Giving feedback to your team daily, is one of the most important jobs as a manager or leader because it enables so many other really good management practices. Why no feedback means no manager promotion is because you miss out on encouraging and helping the team perform that much better.

If you have any questions about “Lead With Courage - Overcome The Fears That Stop You Giving Feedback”, please leave a comment below and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training

Build great teamwork fast! I share 6 ways to create great teams quickly. This have been tried and tested with many teams, in top companies and when transforming the performance of the worst team in multiple companies.

Most managers lead a group of individuals, not a team. Groups of individuals typically work alongside each other, doing their own work. There is chat but not a lot of in depth discussion, not much collaboration and little joint problem solving.

Use these tips to build teamwork in any team, no matter where the level of teamwork is in your team today.

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The leader or manager is the most effective person in building a great team culture. I share multiple ways to teach teamwork to your team. Each are ways to increase teamwork so you will see a noticeable improvement within weeks.

The first of my tips to encourage great teamwork is to show you have the team’s back. Trust is one of the most important currencies managers have with their team. Everything you do in front of your team should be to demonstrate you are trustable and have the best interests of the team at heart (rather than you own). I share 6 actions you can take to build trust quickly – essential in building high performing teams.

The next of my tips for great teamwork is to advertise responsibility and accountability. To build a strong team, each team member needs to know what is expected of them AND what their team members will be covering. Make this clear to each team member and advertise responsibilities across the team. This is the first important step to holding team members accountable.

The next of my tips for effective teamwork is to incentivise a lot of communication. Lead from the front. One of the ways to coach teamwork is to demonstrate communication and then help each team member build to build stronger relationships with each team mate. Create the expectation for a lot of talking, discussing and joint work together.

Another of the really important activities to build teamwork is to find goals that scream success. Choose goals that have a story, that are relevant to team members and that the team can get behind. Don’t just talk about goals in terms of financial targets. Common shared goals are a key part of team building and essential to build a strong team. I explain how to start finding valuable goals.

How to build a great team at work is a process that any manager can follow. Chances are you have the skills. You just need to know what to do AND work hard in service of the team.

If you have any questions on “Build Great Team work Fast – 6 Ways to Create Great Teams Quickly” please email me at support@enhance.training and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training