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Personal resilience at work
Personal resilience at work

Good news! Resilience skills are practical and can be learned.

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Skills and Values, Training, Coaching, CommunityAmanda Dudmanresilience, personal resilience, Karen Reivich, Martin Seligman, training, coaching, ask for help, adpatability, purposefulness, confidence, social support, resilient thinking, EAP, employee assistance, wellbeing, cope, stress, bounce back, .successful, skills, set backs, adversity, competencies, learning, explanatory style, perception, adjusting, change, changingComment
Holding an effective performance conversation - improving managers' confidence
Holding an effective performance conversation - improving managers' confidence

Recognising the challenges in implementing performance management - helping managers with skills and confidence to hold effective performance conversations.

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Learning, Skills and Values, TrainingAmanda Dudmanperformance conversations, performance, performance goals, performance management, effective performance, managers, skills, feedback, 70-20-10, peer learning, knowledge, measurement, SMART, outcomes, goals, landscape, confidence, performance management systems, learning, learning styles, NLP, challenges, time, tough, difficult behaviour, resources, customers, elected members, public sector, expectations, choice, mandatory training, buy-in, crucial conversations, practice, up-skilling, classroom, peer, elements, 1-2-1, development, positive intent, value-added, constructively Comment
Coaching using GROW - focusing on the R
Coaching using GROW - focusing on the R

Ideas for how to manage the "R" of the GROW model when coaching along with some good questions to ask.

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Coaching, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmancoaching, GROW, goals, relaity, reality check, Whitmore, Sir John Whitmore, questions, questioning, objectivity, judgments, disortions, prejudices, practice, coaching practice, insight, awareness, coachee, coachee's, FEEDBACK, paraphrasing, summarising, ask, honesty, reifne, re-framing, information, focus, purpose, R, story, checklist, managing, values, self limiting beliefs, beliefs, language, what have you tried, outcomes, self assessment, resistance Comment
Meeting the needs of organisations in the latest mental health crisis
Meeting the needs of organisations in the latest mental health crisis

A report out today highlights some issues for managers' mental health.  Time to take some organisational actions.

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Learning, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmanwellbeing, CMI, stress, mental health, mental health first aid, mental health first aid england, training, managers, accidental managers, longhours, pressure, organisations, EAP, employee assistance programme, emails, online, offline, overtime, health crisis, morale, performance, 1-2-1sComment
Copy of Copy of Signing off 2017 with optimism
Copy of Copy of Signing off 2017 with optimism

Reasons not to make new year resolutions. Make goals, take action and  learn to be be optimistic instead.

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Skills and Values, LearningAmanda Dudmanresilience, optimism, thinking traps, skills, Meaning Conference, Meg Wheatley, Reivich, Shatte, negative beliefs, limiting beliefs, 2018, suspended coffee, Bar Bar Black Sheep, positive optimism, overcome beliefs, take action, positive outcomes, resolutions, New Year resolutions, volunteer, wellbeing, goals, aims, confident, coach, coaching, learn, lose, The Resilience FactorComment
Signing off 2017 with optimism
Signing off 2017 with optimism

Reasons not to make new year resolutions. Make goals, take action and  learn to be be optimistic instead.

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Skills and Values, LearningAmanda Dudmanresilience, optimism, thinking traps, skills, Meaning Conference, Meg Wheatley, Reivich, Shatte, negative beliefs, limiting beliefs, 2018, suspended coffee, Bar Bar Black Sheep, positive optimism, overcome beliefs, take action, positive outcomes, resolutions, New Year resolutions, volunteer, wellbeing, goals, aims, confident, coach, coaching, learn, lose, The Resilience FactorComment
The four mantras of mentoring
The four mantras of mentoring

I discovered four lessons from those putting mentoring skills into practice with apprentices.

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Learning, Mentoring, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmanskills, apprentices, mentoring apprentices, mentee, Apprenticemakers, SFEDI, IOEE, business, training, business owners, listening, potential, knowledge, conversation, communicate, communication, attitude, career, benefits, four mantras, work, marine, supervision, line management, college, assessment, staff, managers, flexibleComment
Remote and flexible working - working on trust more deeply
Remote and flexible working - working on trust more deeply

Addressing how Managers need to and can build trust in a remote and flexible working environment.

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Skills and Values, TrainingAmanda Dudmanagile, remote working, flexible working, coaching, training, trust, competence, results, results orientated work environment, ROWE, open, honest relationships, role of the manager, communication trust, challenge, working on trust, CPD, knoweldge, skills, hot desking, home working, building trust, integrity, caring, confidentiality, wellbeing, mentor Comment
Remote and flexible working - the issue of trust
Remote and flexible working - the issue of trust

Remote and flexible working - building trust.  Based on a recent project, here's what happened when we looked at ROWE and the types of trust needed.

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Facilitation, Learning, Local Government, Skills and Values, TrainingAmanda Dudmanagile, remote working, fleixble working, local councils, trust, open, honest, managers, teams, teamwork, communication, communication trust, contractual trust, competence, competence trust, relationships, work life balance, performance management, performance conversations, outputs, outcomes, measurable, information flow, communictae, empathy, challenge, maintain trust, skills, knowledge, ROWE, results orientated work environment, locaiton, workload, digital, toolkit, ways of workingComment
Recognising and celebrating mentoring
Recognising and celebrating mentoring

National Mentoring Day is a chance to recognise and celebrate mentoring and even volunteer to be a mentor yourself

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Mentoring, Learning, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmanmentor, mentoring, National Mentoring Day, rewarding, formal, informal, grow, flourish, enterprise, enterprise mentoring, recognising mentoring, celebrating mentoring, volunteering, October 27th, EMCC, change, develop, conversation, relationships, progress, Health, Social Housing, apprentices, mentoring apprentices, SMEs, micro business, mentoring skills, confidence, tools to go mentor, skillsComment