tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89932002341750788542011-11-28T00:01:16.397ZThe Silent Motivator System was developed by Yvonne Bleakley to help turn frustrated managers and business owners into effective leaders who are able to get the most out of their team. With these skills you will have happy, passionate staff who are able to think for themselves.Yvonne Bleakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166568351321862408noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993200234175078854.post-36910929963118106682009-08-28T09:36:00.002+01:002009-08-28T09:39:11.057+01:00

How well do you think you are doing as a leader? How do you know how well you are doing and what you need to be doing more or less of. The best feedback you can get is from the people you lead, but how many of us ever think to ask them?These questions provide a great tool for leaders to "check into" the true experience of their employees. If you are honest with yourself, you’ll recognize areas

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These days we all have so much to live up to. We try to be perfect parents, perfect partners, have the perfect social life! Something has got to give or stress starts to creep in.Do you take the time to listen to your staff member’s problems or issues? Do you show them that you understand, show you care? You may think that it is not your place to care, that they should leave personal issues at

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I just had to share this with everybody! We are all celebrating today in the Bleakley household. Alex, my eldest son, has been counting down the days, hours and minutes to get his results. We were up at midnight to find out his results online for his STEP exams (these are extra exams he needed to get his place at Queens college, Cambridge). Phew, he passed. Then we were up at 6.30 this

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The deadline is the most underappreciated part of delegation. Too many leaders give people tasks without asking what else they have on their “to do” list. This is a motivation killer. Not only is it disrespectful to the recipient, it is disrespectful to anyone who is depending on the person you just delegated to. Most people are trained to never say “no.” They have been wired to say “yes,” even

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Management and leadership is all about motivation. There have been many books written about how good leaders are born and are down to personality traits. In my experience, once you learn the secret to motivating others, then it really doesn't matter what your personality type is. Yes, motivation can be learned.So what is motivation? Motivation is certainly more than a motivational speaker who

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The role we as managers adopt as coach can probably be best understood by the old adage "give someone a fish and feed them for a day, teach them to fish and feed them for a lifetime." In practice, coaching is about asking questions and never being the next person to speak! It is about helping individuals and teams to achieve their agreed objectives by maintaining or improving their own

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Getting constant interruptions from their staff is one of the biggest complaints I get from my clients. You have just planned your day, written you tasks to be completed on your to-do-list and you are all set to tackle your list and have a productive day when one of your team members complains that they are not sure what to do with their task. Do you explain it all again to her for the fourth

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Lack of performance in a member of your staff can be attributed to one of two things. Either they have a competence problem, a commitment problem or both.Competence is relatively easy to deal with. Once you have identified the issue, you can set about producing a training programme to help develop their skills, spend some time supervising them until they become competent, allow them to observe

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As a manager, obviously a huge part of your role is to be able to manage your team effectively, take responsibility for their development and wellbeing and get them onside to working towards a common goal. This of course starts with managing yourself. Effective leaders are first of all effective in managing themselves, their time, their focus and their emotions. But if you are in middle

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Being an Executive Assistant isn't about money or glamour. It's about providing valuable support to a person and an organization you believe in. Being an EA is a unique position and it takes a unique set of skills to achieve long term success. It isn't easy and it isn't always fun. It takes commitment and a drive to succeed. Having said that, it can be extremely rewarding and give you a great

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We humans are very lazy. We let projects slip and make unfulfilled promises. We get easily distracted, come up against obstacles and always manage to find more interesting things to do, rather than what we should be and have committed to doing, even though these things will take us toward our goals.So, you have recognised a need for training, you have found the right course, but how is the

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If you don’t know what you’re doing, where you’re going or what you want then you can’t expect anybody else to? What do you want out of your role as a manager? What do you want out of your team? How do you want to be seen? How would you like to come across? How will you know when you have achieved it?Set yourself some goals. This is so important, I can’t stress this enough. If you are not

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Do you end up solving the problems that your team members are supposed to?Do you finish the unfinished or half finished work of your team members?Do you allow your team members to delegate their work upwards to you?Do you check for or chase for progress of work every few minutesDo you end up saying, "Never mind, I will do it myself."If you were to watch many managers at work, you may begin to

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Stress, simply put, is a person’s natural reaction to the demands and pressures of everyday life, both in the workplace and in our personal lives. Appropriate amounts of stress can stimulate and motivate all of us into action. This in itself is not a harmful or dangerous thing; indeed it is quite necessary.However if the demands and pressures we face are too great, or are prolonged, the stress we

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When something goes wrong, most organisations and managers need someone to blame and almost instigate a hunt to put a name to the culprit without ever thinking of the impact that this has on employees. If this is what is going on in your organisation then all employees will do is try to cover up mistakes and hide problems hoping that no one will find out. Genuine mistakes may go unnoticed and

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Most managers will do almost anything to avoid having a "difficult conversation" with an employee, because they simply don't know how to do them!Why? Well, most good managers were promoted into management because they almost always did the right thing - without being told. They had initiative. They produced results..Every manager in their career stumbles across a challenging employee….one who

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Have you ever noticed that great leaders are also excellent delegators? Delegation saves time, develops and motivates people, and makes an organization more productive. Therefore, it is fair to say that this is one of the most critical skills for any leader or manager to acquire. For this reason, I encourage every leader to become a master delegator.On the surface this seems like an easy task.

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Most of us start at the bottom of the career ladder and work our way up. We become so proficient at our job, earning respect of the management and becoming a valued member of our team. Eventually promotion is offered, usually within the same team and we can find ourselves leader of the team we were once part of. This does have its advantages, however, doesn't come without its problems. There is

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Happy new year to you all!What goals have you set for yourself this year? How determined are you to achieve them? Here is a reminder of the criteria we use to set powerful, achievable goals.Did you know that 70% of people who set new years resolutions will have abandoned them by the 3rd week of January and of the 30% that don’t, 90% of them will have given up by June?SO……..what can you do now

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The season of good will is upon us, and for many people, this will be the first time that they have taken a complete break from their business or job for a few months. Make the most of this and promise yourself and your family complete down time. Do not start preparing reports or proposals, sorting out your office or anything else that is work related or takes mental effort. Let your mind relax

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Well actually you don't get respect, you earn it.Respect is earned by words, and by actions. Things like keeping your promises or proactively providing service. Things like becoming more personally involved with the success of your customer, or taking responsibility when responsibility is not really yours. It's the extra effort. It's the extra mile.One of the keys to respect is the word personal.

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The 80/20 rule was discovered by Vifredo Pareto in 1895 who observed that 80% of the wealth in Italy was owned by 20% of the population and it followed that 80% of income was received by 20% of the people.It has since been discovered that this statistic can be observed in any area of your business or life. For example, 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers or 80% of your sales is

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What is this stuff we call money?Many people say things like “I don’t care about money” or “money isn’t important”, but I bet their bank doesn’t say that or their car dealer or anybody else they deal with. In a civilized society it is impossible to live without money so to say that you don’t care about it is ridiculous.However we must remember that money is our servant and not the other way

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When you run your business and work from home, the day really does just seem to go nowhere and the weeks even faster. It is so important to keep your focus and not get distracted. This system is as effective for sole practitioners as well as business owners and managers. It really is so simple, as all the best systems are. The important thing is that you USE IT!Spend a few minutes thinking about

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