The audit manager has a key task in being a managerial linker to ensure top team performance. This article highlights key points to guide professional practice and shows the use of a new instrument called the Team Management Index.

It is now twenty years since Peter Drucker alleged that personnel management was bankrupt. In the interim, the role of personnel management has developed steadily. It is ironic that today, when many large and small companies are going into liquidation that personnel management is far from...

Adapted from the author′s book, Managerial Consulting Skills , here he reflects on the unseen and occasionally amusing aspects of a consultant′s work. Most of the major problems can often occur before the assignment starts – and then unlikely events can intervene. The author recounts his...

Conversation control is a key managerial skill. A manager must know when to talk and when to listen. Conversational skills are a key to effective performance. Listening is of equal importance, in order to gather information from people in a positive and practical way. (The article includes a...

Effective team management can be the difference between success and failure in business. This monograph provides some practical ideas based on experience to enable you, the manager, to develop your team and improve its performance. The Team Management Systems approach to developing effective...