Build Great Manager Skills
Your manager skills can either reinforce or undermine your business success
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Build the manager skills in your business and retain your best people
How can being a great manager help motivate your team?
Why risk the future of your business by not building your manager skills
What happens when you build the skills of the managers in your business?
Time to focus on the manager skills in your business to improve the engagement of your team
Your business wins when you build your manager skills
Recruit and retain your best people when you build your manager skills
Why the manager skills in your business matter more than you think
Make the inner work conversations in your business count
Effectively influence the perceptions, emotions, and motivations of your team
How do you build your manager skills and affect the inner work conversations of your team?
Improve the success of your business by making the work your team do meaningful
Improve your manager skills and improve the outcomes of their behaviour
How do you turn your team's inner work life into a success?
What are the outcomes for your team of a successful inner work life?
How inner work conversations can shape the future success of your business
Build the success of your managers and help your team see the benefit of daily progress
Help your team see the importance of daily progress and meaningful work
What happens when you make the work your team do meaningful
Facilitate the progress of your team by celebrating the wins
Time to focus on the progress of your team's daily work and make what they do meaningful
When your team do meaningful work they will be more engaged
What happens when your team feel like they making daily progress in the work they are doing?
How can the Progress Principle transform the performance of your team?
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1. A great manager doesn’t just lead—they elevate.
They shape the culture, fuel engagement, and drive performance.
The truth? People don’t quit companies—they quit managers. Click here to discover why your business success hinges on the strength of your manager skills.
2. Behind every thriving business is a team that’s engaged, motivated, and connected.
And behind that team? A skilled manager. Great managers don’t just get things done, they spark potential, build trust, and influence how their team thinks and feels about their work. Click here to discover more.
3. Every one of your team members is having a conversation right now. Not with you. Not with a colleague. With themselves.
These inner work conversations shape how they feel, perform, and show up every day. And as a leader or manager, you have more influence over these internal dialogues than you might think. Click here to discover more.
4. We often focus on what’s said out loud—but what about the things your team says to themselves? Every day, each person on your team carries on an internal dialogue, shaping how they feel about their work, their team, and their purpose.
According to research from The Progress Principle, it’s this inner work life that drives how your team feels about the work they do. Click here to discover how to build the manager skills in your business and influence your teams inner work life.
5. Humans are wired to crave a sense of forward motion. In gaming, it's achievement badges. In work, it's meaningful progress. According to The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile & Steven Kramer, the number one motivator at work isn’t perks or money - it’s the feeling of making progress. Click here to build the manager skills in your business and help your team make daily progress.
6. Do you think your team is motivated by bonuses and praise? Think again. Research from The Progress Principle shows the most powerful workplace motivator is the simple, yet profound feeling of making progress on meaningful work.
Progress increases engagement and setbacks cause double the damage. Click here to discover the importance of building the manager skills in your business to clear the path to meaningful work and daily progress for your team.
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1. A great manager doesn’t just lead—they elevate.
They shape the culture, fuel engagement, and drive performance.
The truth? People don’t quit companies—they quit managers. Click here to discover why your business success hinges on the strength of your manager skills.
2. Behind every thriving business is a team that’s engaged, motivated, and connected.
And behind that team? A skilled manager. Great managers don’t just get things done, they spark potential, build trust, and influence how their team thinks and feels about their work. Click here to discover more.
3. Every one of your team members is having a conversation right now. Not with you. Not with a colleague. With themselves.
These inner work conversations shape how they feel, perform, and show up every day. And as a leader or manager, you have more influence over these internal dialogues than you might think. Click here to discover more.
4. We often focus on what’s said out loud—but what about the things your team says to themselves? Every day, each person on your team carries on an internal dialogue, shaping how they feel about their work, their team, and their purpose.
According to research from The Progress Principle, it’s this inner work life that drives how your team feels about the work they do. Click here to discover how to build the manager skills in your business and influence your teams inner work life.
5. Humans are wired to crave a sense of forward motion. In gaming, it's achievement badges. In work, it's meaningful progress. According to The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile & Steven Kramer, the number one motivator at work isn’t perks or money - it’s the feeling of making progress. Click here to build the manager skills in your business and help your team make daily progress.
6. Do you think your team is motivated by bonuses and praise? Think again. Research from The Progress Principle shows the most powerful workplace motivator is the simple, yet profound feeling of making progress on meaningful work.
Progress increases engagement and setbacks cause double the damage. Click here to discover the importance of building the manager skills in your business to clear the path to meaningful work and daily progress for your team.
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Blog 1 - Improve your team and client relationships when you focus on the skills of your managers
A great manager can mean the difference between a thriving team and one that is disengaged.
The truth is, people don’t quit bad businesses – they quit bad managers.
If your business is to succeed, skilled managers are not just important, they are essential.
Your managerial skills and those of your leadership team can increase the success of your business, because great managers:
- propel your business toward success
- enhance the lives of your team members
- build and strengthen client relationships
On the other hand, if managerial skills are poor or lacking, the success of your business will be undermined.
Who do you talk to the most during your working day? Yourself.
We all engage in ongoing internal conversations. Research shows that these inner dialogues influence our perceptions, emotions and motivations – ultimately determining both personal success and business outcomes.
Studies carried out by Gallup reveal that 70% of team engagement improvements stem directly from the conduct of managers.
When your team are engaged, they are more productive and creative, show greater commitment, collaborate more effectively and simply make your business a better place to work.
When your managers positively influence the inner work conversations of team members daily, your business will see significantly better results.
Effective managers don’t leave engagement to chance – they actively cultivate it through great leadership and honest communication.
Click here to discover why managers in possession of effective skills and work habits are crucial to the future of your business.
Blog 2 - Drive up success by shaping the inner work conversations of your team
We all live in our minds. Every day, every one of your team members engages in an ongoing internal dialogue that influences their perceptions, emotions and motivations.
Understanding and shaping these inner work conversations can be a game changer for you and your managers and, when done right, will drive up productivity and engagement.
Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, authors of The Progress Principle, conducted extensive research using nearly 12,000 daily diary entries from employees across various businesses.
They found that success or failure often comes down to the inner work lives of employees.
They identified four key outcomes influenced by a manager’s leadership:
- Productivity – engaged team members work harder and more efficiently
- Creativity – people perform at their creative best when they feel valued and motivated
- Commitment – a strong inner work life fosters loyalty and dedication
- Collaboration – positive internal dialogues encourage teamwork and cooperation
Their research determined that the best way to motivate your team daily is by facilitating progress. When your people feel they are making meaningful advancements in their work, when they see the meaning behind that work and when you remove obstacles that hinder progress and recognise and celebrate small wins every day, their motivation and engagement will increase.
Don’t leave the managerial skills in your business to chance. Click here to discover how to build those skills, creating the conditions for success every single day.
Blog 3 - How can you use the progress principle to build a more motivated and engaged team?
What keeps millions of people engaged in video games such as World of Warcraft?
The answer: progress indicators and achievement markers. These simple mechanisms tap into the human desire for progress, and the same principle applies to the work done in your business.
Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, authors of The Progress Principle, conducted research that shows that the most powerful motivator in the workplace isn’t money, perks or even praise, it’s the feeling of making meaningful progress.
When your team see progress in their work, they are more engaged, motivated, productive and committed to your business.
But while daily progress boosts engagement, setbacks can have more than twice the negative impact. Unresolved challenges lead to frustration, disengagement and, ultimately, high team churn.
Great managers facilitate progress in your business by:
- setting clear goals, ensuring the team understand the value and purpose of their work
- removing barriers by highlighting and eliminating obstacles that hamper progress
- celebrating the small wins and recognising even the minor achievements of the team
- using the progress principle checklist, to systematically track and support the daily progress of the team
It’s important to remember that managing progress isn’t just a strategy, it’s a daily responsibility. When you and your managers help the team see and feel progress in meaningful work, you create a thriving, engaged team that drives your business forward.
Click here to discover how implementing the progress principle in your business can improve your managerial skills and transform the performance of your team and your business.
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Your business wins when your managers positively impact your team's progress
Your managerial skills have the biggest impact on the engagement and performance of your team.
In turn, this engagement and performance affects the satisfaction and loyalty of your customers, ultimately determining the success of your business.
Being a great manager and having great managers in your business really matters.
In this 'Build Great Manager Skills' edition of Business Breakthrough you will learn, in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea:
- how building your managerial skills can positively influence your team's inner work conversations
- what the progress principle is and how it taps into your team's intrinsic motivation
- the 3 conversations that great managers have with their team every day
- how ‘World of Warcraft’ can teach you the power of making daily progress visible, tangible and measurable to your team
Click here to discover how to use the progress principle to build your managerial knowledge and skills, help your team see the meaning in the work they do and positively influence their inner work life to build the success of your business.
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