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    Managers: Wear Grievance as a Badge of Honour
    mervyn82
    • Apr 30, 2021
    • 4 min

    Managers: Wear Grievance as a Badge of Honour

    I hadn't been promoted very long, when I had cause to have a performance conversation with an employee. A colleague was running a series...
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    Choose a Resourceful State
    Mervyn Murray
    • Jun 4, 2014
    • 2 min

    Choose a Resourceful State

    Have you ever turned up at work to find the boss in a bad mood, then discover that you too are having a bad day? Not only that, but...
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    Are You Missing This Power?
    Mervyn Murray
    • May 8, 2014
    • 2 min

    Are You Missing This Power?

    Managing people can be a mixed blessing at times. They can frustrate you, almost to the point of purposeful sabotage. Many managers and...
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    Mervyn Murray
    • Apr 27, 2014
    • 2 min

    Performance through ethical motivation

    Have you ever noticed how managers manage to defeat their own purpose by getting in the way of their own team members and demoralising...
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    The Death of Pushy
    Mervyn Murray
    • Apr 18, 2014
    • 2 min

    The Death of Pushy

    We don’t like to be sold to, but we do love to buy. How many times has someone tried to “sell” something to someone and they are not...
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    Everyone’s In Sales Now
    Mervyn Murray
    • Mar 31, 2014
    • 2 min

    Everyone’s In Sales Now

    Sometimes, I will ask a group of participants if any of them are in sales. Very few hands will go up and most often, no one will own up...
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    Dig Where The Gold is
    Mervyn Murray
    • Mar 23, 2014
    • 2 min

    Dig Where The Gold is

    HR professionals already know the questions your team are asking themselves that go unanswered by you, their boss. The trouble is, you...
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    Leading By Doing Nothing
    Mervyn Murray
    • Mar 4, 2014
    • 2 min

    Leading By Doing Nothing

    Here are some examples: In a negotiation, y0u are not obliged to react to every offer. You can opt to say or do nothing. Your opponent...
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    Fall into Someone’s Rhythm in 3 Steps
    Mervyn Murray
    • Feb 24, 2014
    • 2 min

    Fall into Someone’s Rhythm in 3 Steps

    There are many times that we need to get work done quickly and efficiently. We often go into “tell-mode” when time is short or we are...
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    The 10 Most Stupid Things You Do As A Manager
    Mervyn Murray
    • Feb 18, 2014
    • 2 min

    The 10 Most Stupid Things You Do As A Manager

    I’ve been a manager since the nineteen-frozen-solids but the lack of awareness that some managers show still surprises me. Given the lack...
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    Valentines Special: Will You Marry Me? And Other Questions
    Mervyn Murray
    • Feb 11, 2014
    • 2 min

    Valentines Special: Will You Marry Me? And Other Questions

    Questions. They are powerful things, aren’t they? They can change how you feel, from sad to happy, or they can change your life, like the...
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    How To Get Along With People
    Mervyn Murray
    • Feb 2, 2014
    • 3 min

    How To Get Along With People

    Are you one of those people who find social situations difficult and are secretly jealous of those who can just fit into any situation...
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    How To Spot a Performance Dip
    Mervyn Murray
    • Jan 26, 2014
    • 2 min

    How To Spot a Performance Dip

    As an effective leader, your job is to spot the difference between a temporary blip in performance and a much more serious dip. You need...
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    How To Deal With Liars
    Mervyn Murray
    • Jan 20, 2014
    • 2 min

    How To Deal With Liars

    Everybody lies, don’t they? From those little comments that spare someone’s blushes (white lies), to the bigger lies that can change the...
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    How to Deal with Complainers
    Mervyn Murray
    • Dec 20, 2013
    • 2 min

    How to Deal with Complainers

    My work requires me to travel extensively and when things don’t quite go to plan, train and airline staff manage to take the anger of...
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    3 Reasons Not To Lead
    Mervyn Murray
    • Dec 2, 2013
    • 2 min

    3 Reasons Not To Lead

    There is so much written about leadership, I thought it would be good to talk about not leading. There are times when we should fight the...
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    The Gift Your Team Rejects
    Mervyn Murray
    • Nov 15, 2013
    • 2 min

    The Gift Your Team Rejects

    Have you ever been paid a compliment at work and then ‘batted’ it away by saying something like: “I was only doing my job.”? We are...
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    How to Spot a Performance Dip
    Mervyn Murray
    • Oct 13, 2013
    • 3 min

    How to Spot a Performance Dip

    Everyone has good days and bad days, don’t they?  You know those days when everything seems to go wrong, when we say the wrong thing at...
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    How to Deal with Complainers
    Mervyn Murray
    • Oct 9, 2013
    • 2 min

    How to Deal with Complainers

    My work requires me to travel extensively and when things don’t quite go to plan, train and airline staff take the anger of passengers in...
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    Leadership Skill: Focus
    Mervyn Murray
    • Aug 27, 2013
    • 2 min

    Leadership Skill: Focus

    If you were to get your busy managers to list the attributes that they think makes an exceptional leader, very few would list Focus as an...
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