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Great Managers® MasterClass with Sandra Wood
by Great Managers
Leadership and People Management advice from Great Managers® expert, Sandra Wood.
Episodes
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POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH: How to Build the Resilience of a Soldier in 5 Steps
Sometimes life throws you a curveball; something that knocks you for six, that makes you wonder whether life will ever be the same again… Exposure to traumatic events can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. (There's been quite a lot in the press about that lately). Several recent developments...
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The 6 Essential Skills for Effectively Managing REMOTE TEAMS
Having Virtual or Remote staff is not a new concept. Many organisations have had teams working remotely for a very long time. But today, this is no longer just a trend, it’s a necessity! As a leader, it is vital you adapt quickly to this change and take advantage of its benefits… whilst…
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6 Personal Habits For Building Resilience and Staying Resourceful... Even Under Intense Pressure
Keeping up with the relentless pace of change is part of our world and organisational life today… and it’s not going to slow down any time soon. This fast pace can take its toll on everyone, so it makes good business sense to develop yourself and your people in a way which strengthens them from…
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How to Deal With Defensiveness
Sometimes the hardest thing about managing people, particularly in relation to performance conversations and providing feedback, is dealing with defensiveness… the other person’s and your own! While defensiveness is a ‘normal’ human behaviour it can get in the way of our ability to communicate…
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How to Make Better Decisions in 4 Simple Steps
What tough decisions do you need to make right now at work or in your life? How are you going to make them? Every day, whether we like it or not, we have to make many decisions. We have to make choices that can impact ourselves, our organisations and others. Our choices have consequences....
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How to Become a Great Coach with 3 Clever Coaching Questions
Starting from today, you can be significantly more effective as a manager by asking the right coaching questions to your team members. Great Coaching is one of the best ways in which leaders can increase the capacity and capability in their team, and help individuals and organisations reach their...
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5 Ways to Develop a High Performing Team
Successful teams are not formed overnight, nor are they achieved in a seminar or weekend retreat. Teams that are pieced together with little planning, few resources, and little support are going to be high-maintenance rather than high-performing and will not result in any organisational…
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How to Build a Compassionate Workplace (Dealing with Grief and Loss)
It’s likely that you, or someone you know has experienced grief and loss. Death, illness and challenging times are a part of life, but many of us are not equipped to communicate skilfully with others at these times, particularly in the workplace. Let’s face it, having conversations about death,...
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How to Build Courage in Teams
Leadership is not a place for the timid. Leaders must summon their will to deal with a whole range of complexity and unknowns, and create workplaces that are motivating and safe for others, even in changing and turbulent times. They must summon their will to take risks, and face things the…
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How to Say NO... 2 Techniques to be More Assertive
Many people have great difficulty saying NO to others. Even people who are quite assertive, in some situations might find themselves saying yes to things that they really don't want to do! Listen to this MasterClass for 2 techniques to be more confident saying NO.
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How to be More Assertive - Assertion Messages
The goal of Assertion Messages is to change behaviour which is intruding on or upsetting you. Learn these 3 key components of Assertion Messages and instantly become more Assertive as a leader.
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Overcoming the Struggle of Perfectionism
Perfectionism can lead to physical and emotional stress, both personally AND organisationally. If you want to move from the STRUGGLE of Perfectionism to STRIVING for excellence, here's how to disrupt your damaging thinking, language and behaviour patterns.
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Leading in a VUCA World - How to keep your high-performing brain active, even under intense pressure
How would you like a breathing technique that allows you to stay in positive performance mode, with the 'clever' part of your brain working for you, even under intense pressure?
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Learned Optimism - Upgrade your Thinking System with a Proven 5-Step Model
The ABCDE Model is a method for building Optimism by recognising and disputing pessimistic thoughts. This model is a proven method of upgrading your Thinking System and if you practise it, will not only make you a more inspiring leader but will significantly improve your personal life too!
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Celebrating Success - The Winning Formula to Stop your Talent Drain
In our super busy world, it’s all too easy to focus on the next task at hand, rather than to stop and acknowledge what has been achieved. This MasterClass will give you a Winning Formula to avoid making that mistake!
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Meet a Great Leader - Top CEO Shares her Fundamental Must-Do's for Success
Great Managers founder, Sandra Wood, conducted an interview with top Australian CEO who reveals her fundamental MUST-DO's for every successful leader. In this extract of the interview, Kim Anson shares these two invaluable tips.
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Upgrade your Culture with Tribal Leadership
This is the second in our 3-part "Building a Great Place to Work" culture series. In this MasterClass we are going to delve into the principles and “how to’s” of “Tribal Leadership” and how to use them to upgrade your team culture. Everybody loves an upgrade, right? A tribal leader is someone…
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How to Build a Great Place to Work: A 6-Step Culture Building System
Improving your culture can deliver huge benefits to your business: • Financial – the better the culture and employee engagement the better the bottom line results • You’re more likely to attract and retain talented staff • Morale is higher – staff are more energetic & enthusiastic •…
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Emotional Agility: Overpower Stress with 4 Simple Steps the Greatest Leaders Follow
Emotions play a big role in stress management. So, let's talk about the skill of emotional agility. Emotional agility is about knowing yourself and developing a greater level of control over your feelings and reactions. With greater emotional agility, you can maximise your confidence. You can…
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6 Steps to Pain-Free Performance Conversations
Performance conversations aren’t easy. They are probably one of the most challenging parts of your role as a manager. Our third and final installment of the Painless Performance Conversations series is a 6 Step Performance Conversation Model to build your tool kit of skills and put them into action.
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How to take your Performance Conversations to the Next Level
Part two in our Painless Performance Conversations series is about taking your conversation skills to the next level... Self-awareness is your key to growth. You need to know your style when it comes to performance conversations and be honest with yourself. There are 2 very common patterns when…
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Painful Vs Painless Performance Conversations – What You Should Know
We all know that quality conversations about work performance lead to better results; however, far too often, things like our emotions or procrastination and getting tongue-tied or talking too much, all of these things get in the way of us having the type of skillful conversation that we really...
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5 Ways to Build Appreciation in your Workplace
Communicating sincere appreciation and encouragement to your staff and colleagues is a powerful way to create a positive work environment. Appreciation can increase loyalty and engagement and that's the topic of our latest Great Managers MasterClass! In this Masterclass Extract Sandra will share...
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How to Build a Growth Mindset
Learning about and building a Growth Mindset will increase your level of achievement, increase your self-esteem and confidence, improve your relationships and lower your risk of depression. Would you like any of those things? I know I would! Well in this MasterClass Extract Sandra will: Take you...
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How to Influence Upwards | Great Managers® MasterClass
Have you ever been in a situation where you feel like you just can’t get through to your boss? One of the key challenges facing many leaders today — at all levels — is how to influence people more senior than themselves, including their bosses and boards! Being able to get your point across and...
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Breaking Bad Habits 2 - Teams
In our previous MasterClass Extract we discussed how to Break Bad Habits that can kill your career as a Manager. This month we’ll extend our discussion to the habits in your team. That’s right, this month’s Masterclass is all about “The ‘A Team’ Formula – Breaking Bad Habits That Are Killing...
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The Habit Loop - Breaking Bad Habits Before They Kill Your Career!
Now I know our Star Wars fans might disagree :), but did you know that BAD is stronger than GOOD? You might do 99% of your role fabulously but your habits, your bad ones, can dilute your efforts and kill your career/reputation. Have you ever worked with someone who had a bad habit that overrode...
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Recognition: How to Increase Productivity in 60 seconds with these 3 Simple Steps
“Have you ever wished you knew a better way to motivate staff? You’ve tried lots of different things but just cant seem to nail a sustainable system of motivation that creates an engaged, high performing workplace? Then its time to get crafty with RECOGNITION! This Month’s Masterclass is all…
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Emotional Tone: How your level of Positivity impacts your success!
Have you ever worked with a person who was always in a bad mood or negative? What impact did that have on you? Can you describe the impact it had on the rest of your team…..and what about the impact it had on your results? Emotions play a huge role in our daily lives and they are so infectious…
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Four Fabulous Tips To Build Your Inner Strength as a Leader | Great Managers® MasterClass
Inner strength is what you need to stay resilient and resourceful and to bounce back if you get knocked over. How many times have you wished you had more inner strength, willpower or self-discipline How many times have you lacked the persistence and inner stamina to follow through on your goals…
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Successful Networking....Even if you HATE Networking! | Great Managers® MasterClass
How to be successful at Networking - even if you really hate networking! Do you LOVE Networking? Whether you love it or hate it, Sandra Wood from Great Managers® will give you some tips in this MasterClass excerpt that will make you more confident AND competent when you head to your next…
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How to Manage Different Generations at Work | Great Managers® MasterClass
How to Manage Different Generations at Work - Join Sandra Wood from Great Managers® as she explores the different needs, values and work styles of the different generations in the workplace and how you as a Manager can provide what they need so you get the best from each.
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How to Build Emotional Intelligence in Teams | Great Managers® MasterClass
How to Build Emotional Intelligence in Teams - Join Sandra Wood from Great Managers® as she shares why Emotional Intelligence is a major factor in the levels of success we achieve individually and in teams.
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How To Build Trust in Teams | Great Managers® MasterClass
How to Build Trust in Teams - Join Sandra Wood from Great Managers® as she shares the 5 Building-Blocks you need to Build Trust in Teams - A High Performing, Successful Team that trusts you AND each other - in an excerpt from The Great Managers® Academy MasterClass at www.greatmanagers.com.
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Making Change and Learning Stick | Great Managers® MasterClass
If you've ever had to manage change or learn something new, you may have experienced some discomfort going through that process. In today's Great Managers® MasterClass Sandra will cover; rediscovering your most successful learning style, why change can be hard and what to do about it, and keeping...
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Creating Your Leadership Brand | Great Managers® MasterClass
In this Great Managers® MasterClass, Leadership and People Management expert Sandra Wood discusses Leadership Brand, why its important and how to develop a strong brand as a leader. Leadership brand is how you’re known as a leader. It’s how people perceive the value you bring to your role. Your...
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