Manager Matt Podcast Show

This weeks Friday Thought reviews the ideas of the 1982 book The One Minute Manager By Ken and Spencer.

I look at the 3 areas that the book covers and how relevant they are in todays leadership world

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How do KPI for a business become so misaligned that they drive in frustration and missed opotunities? The answer is in this podcast, this week I look at how department and area KPI are not helping deliver results to your business and how they maybe hurting it. I look at the 4 core KPI which every business needs to make sure they have. 

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This weeks Friday thought is about the idea of autonomous teams and do they work. How much freedom do modern teams have.

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This weeks episode is to explore the big issue of how to get the best training for your team. 

The way you should make the best of internal skills and not to relay on expensive external training providers. How you can use a Buddy system to help train new starters in your business and how you should get skill champions to get the best performance you can.

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Successful company's are built with great cultures. But what is culture? how do you make sure your culture is right and how can you as a leader build a great culture?

What are the sure sighs that culture is not right and what behaviours make your company successful. 

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In this weeks show I examine the ideas of accountability as a leader, and look at where the accountability has gone. Why are people not stepping up and saying the words everyone wants to here "I am accountable its my fault"

Why you need to be a big leader and tell your directs that you have their back by been accountable for everything.

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A quick Friday thought about how you as a leader cast a shadow in everything you do. The way you work, the choice you make, the interactions you have, all make a difference.

Think about how your shadow can make effect the team around you 

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This weeks show I look at when a leader needs to  make a change to your team for the best. How does a  leader do the change which will add value but my not suit everyone. What benefit will you get and whats the pitfall you may fall into.

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Its great when you get selected for the promotion at work, the idea that you have been spotted as talent really makes your day.

But its not always a yes straight away, you need to ask a couple of questions to make sure you are on the right path to be succesful.

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This week I look at the way that people are becoming more integrated into the machines at work. Is there a move to make all equipment linked so much to the machine that you cant see the difference ?

Are the human the weakest link in teh chain or are they the real benifit to your work?

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