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