People Management Skills Blog
Chris Farmer's Leadership and Management Training Blog
Welcome - the purpose of the blog page is to provide you with a never ending source of valuable, practical and entertaining information designed to help you get the best performance from yourself and others.
In these blogs you will find all the information you need to make faster progress in less time and effort. Here you will find all the information you need to achieve your goals. In addition to helping yourself to achieve your goals, you can use the same information to help others to achieve their goals.
People Management Skills Blogs
People management skills are important, as the staff you employ in your organisation must be able to work together effectively and harmoniously. Improving people management skills will help you to get the best performance from other people.
People management topics include setting goals for the future; communication skills; proper planning and delegating techniques; how to handle conflict and difficult situations; motivation of yourself and others and creating a professional work ethic.
Learn to recognise your own strengths and weaknesses, together with improving your positive mental attitude is the first step in people management. You cannot inspire others unless you have inspired yourself first.
Prioritising work is an important skill, since many people are reactive, rather than being strategic planners. Learn how to prioritise your work in order of importance, not just what you feel like doing first.
Performance management is vital if your organisation is to succeed. Many people can appear to be busy, but are they being as productive as they can be? Identifying bad habits, inefficient systems and other distractions are things that must be dealt with.
Successful people management is based on the success cycle formula: purpose, plan, action, feedback, change.
People Management Skills Blogs
The Teachability Index
12 December 2023
The Teachability Index measures openness to learning from others/experience. It assesses adaptability, willingness to accept guidance, dynamic curiosity, resilient learning, self-awareness, and embracing collective wisdom for continuous improvement.
Continue Reading >The Aid Feedback Model
19 April 2022
What is the AID feedback model and how can we use it to give constructive feedback, to bring about positive changes in behaviour?
Continue Reading >Staff Wellbeing Training
13 July 2021
Wellbeing in the workplace is now more important than ever and our training can assist you in creating the ideal conditions for your staff to thrive and your business to succeed.
Continue Reading >Talent Management In the Post-Covid World
25 May 2021
In the post-Covid world of more remote working, talent managers must be able to spot the staff with extra qualities, over and above the core essentials they need. We examine what they should be looking for.
Continue Reading >How to Tell When Someone is Lying
15 September 2020
Telling lies is part of human nature. Sometimes lying is done innocently, to protect someone's feelings. But what if it involves something more important? Here are some valuable tips to try and decide whether someone is lying to you, or not.
Continue Reading >How to Use Behavioural Modification
25 June 2019
It is easy to give in to someone to "keep them quiet" but giving in to bad behaviour will only encourage them to try the same tactic in the future. We explore the causes of bad behaviour and ways to modify the behaviour.
Continue Reading >How to Manage Difficult People In Meetings
21 June 2019
Unproductive meetings cost time and money. There are five main types of people who may attend your meetings, discover how their personalities could disrupt your ability to hold a productive meeting and learn how to deal with them effectively.
Continue Reading >How to Separate Reasons From Excuses
19 March 2019
Many people believe in the concept of a 'reasonable excuse'. This is a misconception, since reasons are very different from excuses. We examine the differences between excuses and reasons and show you how you should treat them both.
Continue Reading >How to Change Behaviour
13 November 2018
Do you realise that when you reward bad behaviour you are positively reinforcing that negative behaviour? Consequently, this will encourage that person to behave in that way again.
Continue Reading >How to Improve your People-Management Skills
13 July 2018
Managing people correctly is an important skill for every successful manager. Many people step into the role of manager without any formal training, and will need to be taught good people management skills.
Continue Reading >Better People Management Skills
13 December 2016
Improving your people management skills will help you to make more progress towards your goals. At home too, your happiness is directly related to how much cooperation you can get from your family.
Continue Reading >Blog Categories
Accelerated Learning (6)
Accelerated learning techniques are special methods of organising information, so that you can more rapidly memorise and more accurately recall it on demand. Accelerated learning also includes mind mapping and creative thinking techniques.
Assertiveness (4)
Assertiveness is a both a communication style and a mind-set which, when combined, allows a people to express their meaning using just the amount of forcefulness, in relation to their body language, voice tone and spoken language.
Change Management (15)
Change management training is how to use the fact of continuous change, to work FOR you, rather than against you. It is a fact that all improvement implies change, but many people hate change. Change management is about training people to love change as a means of making the future better.
Coaching, Mentoring and Developing Staff (8)
There is a pressing need to develop the next generation of leaders, managers and technical experts. One way to develop staff is through coaching and mentoring. To be an effective coach and mentor is not an easy skill to master. These blogs discuss the skills of coaching, mentoring and staff development.
Communication - Clear Communication (76)
One to the most important facets of communication is clarity. Whenever you write or speak, your words should denote only one possible meaning. If your words can be properly interpreted in multiple ways, then you are creating the conditions for confusion, error and misunderstanding. These blogs discuss the nature of clear communication.
Communication - Listening Skills (5)
Communication includes the ability to attend to, understand and memorise what people say to you. Effective Listening is an active, not a passive process. These bloggs discuss what it takes to be a good listener.
Communication - Nonverbal Communication (8)
Communication includes a large visual component. How you appear, as you speak, makes a big difference to how your message is received. These blogs are about how to best use your body language. (Eye contact, posture, dress, hand and arm gestures, etc.)
Communication - Persuasive Communication (39)
Persuasion is the art of convincing others that your ideas are good, right, fair and practical, and in addition, persuasion includes motivating people to put your ideas into action. Persuasion is a key communication skill that everyone should study. These blogs discuss how to be more persuasive.
Communication - Written Communication (5)
A part of your communication is in the written form. Writing well is a skill that most people do not study, though it is of immense importance. These blogs discuss how you might improve your written communication.
Conflict Management and Handling Difficult People (28)
Conflict is inevitable, and when it occurs, you need to resolve it quickly and efficiently. Conflict management (and handling difficult people) is about managing your communication and your emotions, so that you arrive at a negotiated solution as quickly as possible. This series of blogs discusses the various ways you can best manage conflict.
Decision Making and Problem Solving (21)
Decision making is the skill of selecting the best option from many options. And problem solving is the skill at determining the causes and implications of a problem and finding efficient remedies. This series of blogs discusses the elements of effective decision making and problem solving.
Goal Setting (7)
Success is the achievement of a worthwhile goal. And therefore, the first step to achieving a goal is to set it. Goal setting is the starting point of all achievement and is one of the most important topics you could study. This series of blogs discuss the elements of goal setting.
Leadership and Management (143)
Leadership is the art of setting a clear goal and inspiring others to achieve it. Management is the art of organising resources so as to most efficiently achieve that goal. This series of blogs discuss the details of leadership and management.
Mental Health (12)
Mental health is the skill of managing your own mind so as to achieve mental stability and a high degree of rationality. Mental ill health is the opposite, mental instability and irrational actions. This series of blogs, discusses how you might manage your mind.
Motivation (32)
Motivation is an emotion that induces action. Without motivation, nobody would achieve anything of value. This series of blogs discusses the various ways you can motivate yourself and others.
Other (36)
Whilst interesting and informative in their own right, these blogs don't fit into a category.
People Management (11)
People management is a combination of skills including goal setting, communication, planning, handling conflict and motivation skills. This series of blogs discusses people management skills.
Personal Development (72)
The best investment you can make is in your own personal development. If you develop your skills, knowledge and experience, then you will maximise your potential to produce excellent results. This series of blogs looks at the details of personal development.
Personal Effectiveness (85)
You are not paid for how hard you work; you are paid for your effectiveness. It is possible to improve your effectiveness and get more valuable work done in less time and effort. This series of blogs discusses how you might improve your personal effectiveness and therefore speed up your rate of progress.
Positive Thinking (8)
The quality of your results is based upon the quality of your actions. And your actions are controlled by your thoughts. To simultaneously improve both your material results and your mental health, it is vital to develop the skills of positive thinking.
Stress Management (3)
Stress can be both good for you and bad for you. Good Stress triggers improvement. Bad stress grinds you down. Stress management is about using stress to help you to improve, and to avoid the negative effects of too much stress. These blogs discuss the various aspects of stress management.
Supervisory Management Skills (4)
Supervisory management skills are a combination of five major skill sets, setting goals, communication skills, planning, performance management and motivation. These blogs discuss the details of supervisory management skills.
Team Leadership (6)
For the most part, we all work in teams. Leading the team effectively can make all the difference to the performance of the team, as a whole. This series of blogs discuss the details of team leadership.
Teamwork (19)
Teams are often composed of people who have very different personalities and skills. In order to perform well, the members of the team must work well together and play to each other’s strengths. This series of blogs covers the importance of team work skills.
Time Management (16)
Time management is about prioritising, planning, organising and delegating, so that, at any moment, you are always adding the most value, and setting the conditions for your future success. This series of blogs investigates how you might better manage your time.