The majority of successful people in business are often described as being very well organized and good time managers. Fortunately, time management skills are learnable with practice and repetition. You can become one of the most productive people in your field by applying the ideas you are about to learn. Start by making decisions, getting …
We often talk about making our businesses more productive. It is common in the media to hear things like “we need to be more productive” to offset things like rising prices on supplies. But, what is productivity? For the most part, we think of productivity in general terms as “doing more” or “making more” for …
What is the burning goal for your business? In business, as in life, it is very easy to get caught by the trivia of the world around you. As someone wiser than me has said, “in the absence of goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until we become enslaved by it. Put …
They call this a “Dashing Cavalier” hat: When you are at work as an SME Business owner, do you try and where one of these? The Dashing Cavalier: The person who can do everything? What I am talking about here is that as a business owner, unless your business is perhaps $10m plus per annum, …
How much of your day is taken up by responding? Don’t get me wrong clearing your inbox, responding to colleague questions, or texting friends about a catch-up is important, so is getting on with the work that your team and clients depend on you to do. As leaders, what we do can get accepted as …
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How easy is it to sit at your computer, banging out reports, drafting emails or surfing the internet, but come 6 o’clock you wonder what you’ve actually achieved? If you feel like you never have enough time in your workday, there are a few changes and habits you can make that will help. In an …
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How often have you wanted a few more hours in the day? I know I have and without a doubt it is the most common request from business owners. Owning a business is exhilarating but it can also be exhausting, especially if you’re having to deal with an overflowing inbox, social media messages, text messages, …
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Business objectives and people alignment help your organisation achieve its strategic plan. Without this important link between the business plan and your organisation, it may be difficult to achieve your Vision. Whether you are managing performance reviews or undertaking strategic alignment, our performance management systems help your employees to plan and implement the key activities …
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There are two ways to excel in business: The first is by developing effective strategies. The second is making those strategies happen, in a highly effective manner. The latter is all about personal high performance, yet very few executives and entrepreneurs spend much time improving their own performance. Here’s a test to help you identify …
It’s possible that I spend too much time thinking about how to improve business so it benefits everyone. But sometimes it leads to some pretty funny observations. Take, for example, one of our Best Practices, which we call “Radical Transparency.” Transparency is supposed to solve this problem, and it does — but only if you …
