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Recession warning on Management Skills Investment
Businesses need to invest more rather than less in management and leadership development during the recession, say the authors of a new report on executive skills in Wales.
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Unique Wales Conference Will Provide Practical Solutions to Assist Those Leading and Managing in Uncertain Times
Imagination and boldness are among the key characteristics leaders must have to operate effectively during the current challenging times.
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Leadership - The Skill that Will Make a Real Difference to Wales
The ability to get people performing at the very top of their game is, without doubt, the most important skill needed in Wales today.
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Times of Economic Uncertainty Test the Mettle of Leaders and Managers
Leaders need to demonstrate creativity, inspiration and commitment if their businesses and organisations are to survive and then thrive through the present economic downturn, argues Wales Management Council Chief Executive and Lead On 2008 conference spokesman, Christopher Ward.
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Sharing Skills Essential for Progress of Wales' Female Managers and Leaders
I doubt if anyone could even hazard a guest at how many books and courses there are on the subject of improving one's management and leadership skills.
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Spotlight North Wales
Eleven leading business organisations have joined forced to stage a groundbreaking conference designed to focus on how the region can raise its economic performance in an increasingly competitive environment.
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Connecting at the Bar
Sometimes the real truth lies in the joke, or the flippant aside, but we just don't take it seriously.
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Managers Urged to Explore What "Work Really Means"
Church leaders have thrown their weight behind the drive to boost the quality of management and leadership in Welsh industry.
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News Releases - Archive

Leading Wales Awards 2006 and 2005 - the words used ...
Christopher Ward analyses the words that nominators used to describe the leadership qualities of their nominees for the Leading Wales Awards 2006 and 2005.
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Time for a Managerial Spring Clean
A survey from Investors in People showed that one in three workers would happily change their current boss for another one, if they had the choice.
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Change and Uncertainty is the Face of the Future
Being able to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances will become the most important core skill for Welsh industry's leaders and managers in the future according to a new report.
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Under Starter's Orders
Business leaders in Wales are under starter's orders for the second running of a ground-breaking leadership and management event.
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Small Firms are the Front Line of Management Skills Challenge
In business how much impact does the skill of a manager have on the actual performance of the team?
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New Appointments
Wales Management Council, has recruited two key industry figures as part of its continuing drive to boost management and leadership performance across the Welsh economy.
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Who Takes the Lead?
Of Wales' workforce of 1.1 million people, 164,000 are classified as managers of some sort or another.
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New Group to Carry Banner for Better Leadership in Wales
The body responsible for promoting better management in Wales has launched a new initiative designed to harness the collective knowledge of some of the nation's most experienced leaders.
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Dramatic Insight into Leadership and Management Breaks New Ground
Flips charts and powerpoint presentations were largely dispensed with when management and leadership training took to the stage at the Wales Millennium Centre.
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Concerted Bid to Sharpen Skills of Welsh Managers
A major drive has begun to sharpen the skills of Welsh managers and leaders, with more than 6,000 company owners and executives expected to benefit during the next year alone.
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Compact Size Gives Wales a Natural Advantage in Business
Wales' has a major competitive advantage because its compact size and existing business relationships make it fertile territory for spreading management excellence, according to a new report.
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Mountain of Management Training But Many Gaps - Says New Report
Welsh business executives received a total of more than half-a-million days training last year, representing an estimated investment of around £138 million, according to a groundbreaking survey from Wales Management Council.
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Building Skills While Doing the Day Job
On the face of it there is no shortage of management training and development going on in Wales today.
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Industry Pacesetters Show Way Towards "High Performance" Wales
Welsh businesses which have transformed their fortunes through radical changes in their management of staff are being used as standard bearers in a new drive to create an era of "high performance working".
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Mentors Set to Become the Key to Better Management in Wales
A report out this week calls for the creation of a new army of mentors, trained to give one-to-one support to boost the performance of business executives at all levels across Wales.
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Wales Searches for Outstanding Leaders
A new Award aimed at finding the very best leaders and managers in organisations throughout Wales, is launched today.
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Micro-Firms Urged To Embrace Same "People" Standards as Large Employers (August 2004)
Micro-businesses in Wales who shun official "people development" standards as being suitable only for larger organisations, have been urged to think again.
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Practical Support Needed to Sharpen Welsh Management (June 2004)
Wales must give higher priority to the development of management skills if it wants to compete effectively in the future, Wales Management Council Chairman Ian Rees has warned.
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Tina Stephens Joins Team (May 2004)
One of Wales' leading executive skills specialists has been appointed to a key post promoting better management and leadership performance in the north of the country.
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Manufacturing Experts Join Quest for Better Management in Wales
Wales Management Council, the employer-led body which promotes improved management performance in the Welsh economy, has appointed five leading manufacturing experts and a top banker to strengthen its governing board.
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