Often when asked to come up with a goal people will think of what they’d like to do. That’s great, what they need to ask themselves is whether it’s realistic at the current stage of their business. There’s nothing wrong with aspirations at all. However, using goals to try and achieve them in the short-term [...]

Management training, a reason why it doesn’t work as well as it should.

As I’ve a said before bigger companies usually ask me how to get more sales. They often expect me to say, “more sales staff” or “increase your marketing” or “increase your sales activity.” The truth is, you need to really look at your whole business and view it as a sales and marketing machine. That [...]

Your business, every business, faces issues at the moment because of the fear generated through the current economy. That fear has slowed demand and made some organisations delay orders to their suppliers and consumers put off their own purchases. We can all see it simply by watching the news every day. In fact now is [...]

3 time management and project issues that will stop your project delivering what you’ve promised

Do you plan your calendar so that’s it’s completely stuffed with activity? Do you make sure that your to-do list has plenty on it in case you run out of things to do? If you do you’re not alone. In fact you’re making two time management mistakes which aren’t even your fault. The first is [...]

Leadership is absolutely vital when a company begins life coaching. The top management of a company must get behind their investment in life coaching and take the actions that their coach agrees with them. I used to take the view that business coaching was all about business. However, as I’ve continued to coach people I’ve [...]

The Wrong Time Management Analogy I’m sure you’ve heard of that nice little time management analogy which represents a large pickle jar as the time you have available in a day and then asks how you’d get a bunch of rocks, pebbles, sand and some water into that one jar without it all overflowing. The [...]

Better time management has the potential to release you from working so hard that you feel like your pips squeaked several years ago and that you’re running hard to maintain turnover in your business. Time Management Turned Evil If you use some of the tactics of time management without integrating them with your business strategy [...]

Do you run out of working day before the work you’ve got on today’s to-do list? Maybe you find that you’re simply rushing through the office to your next appointment and you don’t see any of your staff. You don’t see the employee who you wanted to congratulate for a piece of work they did. [...]

Time management is for the birds! Or is it? How often have you heard the phrase, “I don’t know where the time went?”   That’s because we get involved in the nitty-gritty of our daily lives and do the urgent jobs, the nice tasks and the easy things which means we don’t get to the necessary [...]