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Any manager will know that part of their job is to get the best out of their staff or team, helping them meet goals and targets that drive the business forward. The challenge is that everyone working for you is different. The needs, opportunities, obstacles, and motivations vary based on what they need to do and what they want to achieve. Navigating all of that is difficult, but with the right management strategies, you can see fantastic results.

When it comes to your staff, whether all the employees in a business or the ones in a team you lead, providing the best working environment is a key factor in ensuring they deliver the best results possible. Each business and industry will have a different working environment, such as offices, retail stores, entertainment venues, warehouses, and much more. What staff need from those workplaces will change depending on their personality, preferences and job role.

Some might argue that a paycheck at the end of each month is enough to keep employees happy and motivated. However, the trend of quiet quitting is proving otherwise.

As a business owner or manager, getting the most out of your staff is one of the best ways to meet targets, operate successfully and deliver growth. This can be done in many ways, but staff development is important not only to you, but employees as well, and when everyone is invested, the results are going to be better.

Helping your team succeed is an important part of any leadership role, and there are different ways to achieve their targets. There has long been an argument about leadership and management - and which is the better option for getting results. Recent years have seen a shift in attitudes as our views have changed, and good leadership is taking over as the preferred way to manage employees.

In any business, there are a range of people working in a given team. It brings different values, opinions, beliefs, ideas, and ways of doing things - all of which can be incredibly beneficial. However, some people will stand out over others. They’ll be louder and more visibly engaged, which makes them the most obvious candidates for progression, even if they aren’t the best candidates.

It’s often said that you should never underestimate the importance of people skills, but what exactly are they? And if you’re not sure that your team has the people skills necessary to succeed, how can you set about improving these? Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about people skills.

Conflict resolution is one of the less enviable tasks a manager has to handle. Every business wants to have the best staff working for them, but this can sometimes mean very different personalities, opinions, and ways of working collide. As adults, it’s hoped that we can handle this responsibly, but in some cases, managers will need to utilise their conflict resolution skills to keep everything running smoothly.

There are times when we will encounter tough situations or events, both in our personal and professional lives. How we respond to these events, and what we do to bounce back, determines how resilient we are.

In-person training courses have had to take a backseat in the last few years amid lockdowns and social distancing restrictions, but as the world begins to settle into a new normal, businesses are embracing face-to-face training one again.