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The Management Centre (=mc) is a consultancy and training agency working worldwide with ethically-driven organisations. Our vision is to be the first choice of ethically-driven organisations worldwide for management consultancy, fundraising consultancy and learning and development.
The Management Centre
2w ago
Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants.
Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature, we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.
This month we respond to a very busy HR manager, who is being pulled in different directions.
What’s the issue
Hello =mc team,
I hope this email finds you ..read more
The Management Centre
2w ago
=mc Director Laura Slater blogs on a the benefits of using the ‘coach approach’ with your teams.
Here at =mc we know that stepping into leadership is a big deal. As you become more senior in an organisation, an exciting aspect of moving up is being able to actually set the direction for your team or department – and the organisation.
However, this is not easy to do. A big challenge experienced by participants on our leadership courses is that they continue to find themselves getting sucked into day to day operational tasks, rather than focussing on the more strategic elements of thei ..read more
The Management Centre
1M ago
Being assertive at work can be really hard, and this is something many people struggle with. Our insecurities, perceived weaknesses, motivations and goals can all stop us from being assertive when we need to be. In this article, Charlotte Scott explains why we need assertiveness, what it actually is, and how to be assertive.
Why we need assertiveness
Assertiveness is a communication skill, and displaying assertiveness is essential to working with others. Being assertive enables you to put forward your ideas, thoughts and opinions by expressing yourself effectively. It also helps to earn others ..read more
The Management Centre
2M ago
In this interview, Rebecca Cooper, Head of People and Development at ACT Training shares her experience of what effective leadership development looks like in action.
ACT Training provides a wide range of fully-funded training programmes for individuals and employers in Wales. Their mission to improve lives through learning stands side by side with our own at =mc, so of course we were thrilled when they got in touch about working together.
=mc: Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us Rebecca, and for sharing your feedback. Tell us about what prompted you to commission training for you ..read more
The Management Centre
3M ago
Online learning was pushed into the spotlight a few years ago out of necessity. Since then, many of our customers still choose to develop their teams via a virtual classroom. Where face to face training has all the known benefits of physically being in the same learning environment, online opens up access to those in different locations, as well as offering many accessibility options. So which is best for your people – online or face to face training?
The answer to which training format is best is… it depends! It depends on what you are looking to achieve with your training – the ..read more
The Management Centre
4M ago
Being a manager means taking on more responsibilities and also letting go of others. However, as much as we know delegation is a good thing – we still struggle to do it well. Delegation provides your team with learning opportunities, development projects, balances workload and gives room for new insights. As a manager though you may be reluctant to overload people, to let go of tasks that you enjoy, or to invest the time in showing someone the ropes.
The price of deciding to do everything yourself because it’s ‘quicker than explaining what’s needed to someone else’ can cause delays in processe ..read more
The Management Centre
5M ago
John Adair’s Action-Centred Leadership is a classic leadership model, first shared in 1973[i]. It’s used widely in management development to help managers get to grips with the multiple responsibilities that they need. A lot has changed over the last fifty years, and the situations we face as managers feel increasingly complex. Is this model still relevant?
What the model says
Adair was one of the first to say that leadership is what you do (the actions you take) rather than a trait or personality quirk. Therefore, anyone, in any role, can learn how to be a great leader.
For managers, this is ..read more
The Management Centre
5M ago
Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants.
Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature, we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.
This month we respond to a very busy manager, in need of some encouragement and techniques to deal with both a marathon and a mountain simultaneously.
What ..read more
The Management Centre
8M ago
Sending your team members on a training course should be a fantastic opportunity: for them to learn new things, for you to see them doing new things, for you to save some of your precious time, and ultimately to enable your organisation to do more, or do better. However, training isn’t cheap – it takes your team member away from their job, it often costs money and expenses, and it can therefore be incredibly frustrating if you don’t see a return on this investment. At best, your team member reports having a great time but that’s it. At worst, the time is chalked up as a waste.
Actually, the ve ..read more
The Management Centre
8M ago
In this blog, Director, Laura Slater looks at common problems with projects, and gives an overview of =mc’s approach to Project Rationale.
=mc’s Systems Model outlines 3 elements in getting your project rationale right.
They are:
Driver: what triggered this project? Why was it initiated? Was this in response to a need (various departments need to find information on our service users), opportunity (a new technology has become available which may support our beneficiaries) up which or problem (staff don’t know how to explain and talk about our research when fundraising)?
Task: what action w ..read more