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65 Skills Challenges

Skills Challenge 5 mins

Are You Delegating Enough?

Allocate and enable

Delegating tasks empowers your colleagues, builds trust, and supports professional development. You inspire, set direction and promote team learning.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Managing With Integrity

Manage tricky situations and earn respect

Displaying integrity establishes respect. Your honesty, dependability, and ethical approach are revealed by the way you manage challenging situations. If you uphold high moral standards your team, and those around you, will follow your lead.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Moving Into Management

A new management role

Becoming a manager for the first time requires you to step up and behave differently from before. Think about how your colleagues are going to react to you and what you can do to establish credibility in your new role.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Modern Meetings

What’s the best format for your meeting?

By selecting the most appropriate meeting format you ensure that every meeting you hold is both efficient and effective.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Specific Feedback

Paint the picture

When providing feedback, be specific about what you think the individual is doing well or what you would like to see changed. If you are too generic it can lead to misunderstanding and the opportunity for learning and improvement is lost.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Coaching Questions

Good coaching questions provide insight

One of the most important coaching skills is the ability to ask good questions. These questions gather information, they clarify understanding, and help the individual to think through a task for themselves.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Make Time For What Matters

How can you manage your time effectively to make the very best use of it?

Managing your time effectively enables you to achieve more in the time available. Using a ‘Priority Matrix’ helps you to prioritise your work intelligently.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Concentrate, Concentrate!

How well can you concentrate?

Human beings have evolved to be distractible. This makes it difficult to focus our attention. Distractions and interruptions, which can be both internal and external, get in the way of our intentions and impede our concentration skills.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Righting Incorrect Emails

Too many mistakkes

We’ve all made mistakes in our emails. It’s easy to write email messages quickly and hit ‘send’ before we’ve checked our work. This challenge is about writing accurate email messages.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Learn From Mistakes

Slip up? Trip up? Own up

We all make mistakes but it is how we react to them that really matters. If we remain calm we are able to think clearly about the consequences of our error. If we share what we learn, more people benefit from our experience, and a spiral of continuous improvement is formed.
Skills Challenge 5 mins

Multitasking

Juggling all the jobs? Take a step back.

Workload pressures can make you feel like you have to do lots of things at once. But can you really split your attention between two different things (multitask) without having an impact on the quality of your work?

Whilst we all know what we should do (one thing at a time) in practice, we often do something different.

Skills Challenge 5 mins

Learn To Listen

Practise regularly

Think back to the last conversation you had with someone at work. What did the person say to you? Are you sure they said that? Being aware of your own state of mind is what enables you to listen. It can be easier said than done, and so the skill of listening requires regular practice.
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