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Welcome to our personal and career development resources to help you make happier work and life choices. Here you’ll find a range of tools, tips and techniques to help you plan, set and achieve your development goals.
Successful managers invest in personal and career development. They achieve their goals by lifelong commitment to personal growth and professional development.
The Happy Manager contains a growing range of material to help you plan, set and achieve your personal development goals.
This section contains some excellent personal and career development resources – from tips and stories to career change advice and key success factors.
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What makes a great manager? There are many different ways of answering this question but how many would include a reference to happiness? Ours does! We...
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Let it Flow Does self motivation come easy for you? If not, perhaps you should consider the work of positive psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced: Chick-sent-me-high-ee). He...
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This elementary goal setting tip is based on David Allen’s approach to getting things done (GTD). Allen refers to “Make It Up and Make It Happen,” his problem...
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Goal Setting Tip: Do What You Love How to be happy? If we could offer one, single, goal setting tip it would be: “do what you love”. Some...
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Leadership and Professional Development lesson No 1: Be in the Know At the heart of leadership and professional development is the idea of building a core of knowledge...
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Making it Happen Effective management skills must first and foremost be about getting things done. Whatever else management might be about; it is primarily about making things happen....
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Focus on the 8 P’s of Developing Management Skills Developing management skills is perhaps one of the most critical activities facing any organization. Yet it can also be...
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It’s More Than Courses and Classes Think for a moment about your own management and leadership development training. Was it based largely on a formal course or qualification,...
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Good leadership management training should draw upon excellent content but that alone is not enough. To be fully effective, this material needs to be used in conjunction with...
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What are Businesses Looking for in a Training Provider? Management Consulting Leadership Training Development? What are businesses looking for in their training providers? There can be few decisions...
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What differentiates a business school executive MBA from any other kind of MBA? Deciding to study for any such course is a big decision, requiring an even bigger...
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It’s Pay-back Time! Let’s face it, MBA starting salaries are pretty important to anyone interested in gaining that qualification. Quite rightly so, considering the investment any MBA student...
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What exactly is an MBA business school ranking? Thinking about an MBA’s “rank” can be a useful exercise when you’re trying to decide which program is best for...
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Issues and Insights MBA program rankings are used widely by prospective students and employers, but these ranking lists have also generated a good deal of controversy. As useful...
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MBA school rankings have gained significant popularity and importance as a way to compare different business schools and their MBA offers. In this article we introduce three popular...
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Success Maker: Developing the Happy Manager Do you want to be a success maker? Perhaps the first thing to consider is a couple of quotes. Firstly, Dale Carnegie’s:...
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Personal Value Development: You’re Worth It! Thinking about your personal value development places a different emphasis on personal growth. We often think of value when we take stock...
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Do It Now! When it comes to getting things done (GTD), what would you say is the key success factor? Better planning? Clarifying objectives? Prioritising? Having a system...
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Reading personal development stories is one of the best ways to add wisdom, wit, vision, colour, and fun to your personal development plan. Whatever your goal, whether personal...
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Creating Discretionary Time It could be argued that a key element of time management in the workplace is choice. Psychologists argue that the more control we feel we...
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What makes a good manager? Effective management does require the co-ordination of analytical, administrative and organisational skills. But perhaps it also requires something else. Whether you’re entering a...
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Begin With the End in Mind Which benefits of time management are you hoping to achieve? To save some time by consolidating activities? To eliminate typical “time wasters”?...
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Ask Questions of Yourself For managers, personal goal setting is just as important as setting organisational goals, but how many of us give it the time it deserves?...
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Stick At It! Want a counter-intuitive lesson on goal setting? How about: not setting goals! Well, perhaps allowing goal-free time, to be more precise. Most advice on goal...
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In Search of Optimum Performance How do you go about improving motivation at work? Perhaps by seeking optimum performance. Managing is essentially a balancing act. The manager’s role...
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Goal setting activity: 5 steps to self-development at work Possibly the most effective goal setting activity is the that contributes to your self-development. Attending to your personal growth...
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Try the Road Less Travelled Ever thought about where you’re going? Is your destination success? This article combines a classic motivational poem with the priceless advice of best-selling...
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Try to make enthusiasm central to your career goal setting Often those around us catch that sense of passion, causing a multiplying and magnifying effect. Of course whilst...
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Career Change Advice: Make Your Interview Questions Count! Here’s some good career change advice for your next job interview. When your interviewers give you the chance to ask...
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Career Builder: Building Your Own Education A Career Builder Story: “Students working on the Chapel”. Below is a photo of a panel from the Driver Memorial Window, University...
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Re-thinking Our Approach Do we need to re-think our approach to business management education? In order to develop as a manager, effective techniques and tools need to be...
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Tips & Tools
“Finding Flow”, By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. “If we really want to live, we’d better start at...
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People is broadly recognised as one of the most influential...
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Faced with job loss? Whether it’s being made redundant, not being made permanent, or actually...
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What’s the best way to develop your work life effectiveness? Well, perhaps it’s to apply...
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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation The Daily Drucker is an invaluable...
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Wisdom from the giant of giants! Searching for Peter Drucker quotes? Peter Drucker (1909 to...
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Exploring potential to inspire and wisdom to adopt Exploring learning quotes can be time well...
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What do Business Leaders Say? Looking for some insights from the best? Our quotes on...
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Success quotes captures some inspirational and counter-intuitive thoughts about success. There are plenty of...
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What makes a good manager? Well, effective management does require the co-ordination of analytical, administrative...
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Asking Good Questions: In a Minute? We think asking good questions is the one of...
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Performance Requires Practice Management skill training is fundamentally about practice: with practice comes performance. We...
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A personal development strategy begins with a simple premise: your development is your responsibility....
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