70 Skills Challenges

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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.
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Skills Challenge 5 mins

Giving Objective Feedback

Always be objective

When you are coaching someone, it’s important to give neutral, non-judgemental feedback. Non-judgemental feedback is like holding a mirror up to someone so that they can see for themselves what they are doing, how they are doing it, and the effect their behaviour has on other people.
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Skills Challenge 5 mins

Dealing With Negativity

The knock-on effect

Negative people are rarely successful, but they do feel rewarded by the social popularity and comedic reputation, sometimes associated with putting others down. Unless it is isolated, a negative attitude becomes infectious, damaging the morale and performance of the team. There are skills you can use to isolate the negativity without causing conflict.
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Skills Challenge 5 mins

Fresh Perspectives

A Shared Responsibility

Everyone has an impact on organisational culture. To promote a culture that nurtures creative thinking you need to prepare the groundwork whether you’re a manager or not. Your colleagues need to feel safe enough to question the status quo and confident enough to put forward their own novel ideas, without fear of feeling silly or humiliated.
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Skills Challenge 5 mins

Remote Workers Unite!

Working remotely presents many challenges

How do you keep productive, foster team spirit, and promote inclusive culture?

Modern day methods of communication encourage collaboration and agile working practice. However, remote working isn’t always easy.

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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.

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Skills Challenge 5 mins

Leadership

Are you a leader?

You are a leader if you display the behaviours and qualities of an effective influencer, earning the trust and respect of others. Leaders are not necessarily managers.
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Skills Challenge 5 mins

Managing Your To-Do List

Don’t let a long task list overwhelm you

You are in control of what you decide to do and when you do it. How you prioritise your tasks and manage your time significantly impacts your ability to get work done in the most effective way.
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Skills Challenge 5 mins

Requesting Resources

Asking for more resources isn’t easy

How should you approach the conversation with your manager if you are asking for more or for something new?

You will need something to write on for this challenge!

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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.
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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.
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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.
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