Maintaining communication – keeping the connection
Keeping Open the Lines of Communication- maintaining communication is important Most industries have a lull during their trading year. There is almost always a month where not much is going on in sales or where the closure rate is no longer as imperative as it was in the other months. You may be making fewer […]
Beating Stress & Having Fun; Hobbies & Interests
The importance of hobbies and interests in beating stress Most of us pride ourselves on working so hard and effectively that we find we don’t have time to indulge our interests outside of work. What we forget is that these outside interests may well make us more productive inside. Not only that- research shows that […]
The Dangers of Stress – And How to Overcome Stress
Is it important to overcome stress? It’s been well documented the work hours lost attributed to stress. An expensive condition to both employee, employer and the self-employed. And yet we still push ourselves to the limit and don’t raise our heads enough to notice that this month is a perfect time to slow down a […]
The Blame Game – a game with no winners
For more years than I care to remember I have heard numerous companies stating that they ‘want to get away from the blame game’ they want to promote a culture of inclusivity where employees can voice concerns or point out problems without fear of retribution. However, I see very little evidence that this is not […]
Round Peg/Square Hole – the skills and job mismatch
I’ve deliberately switched this saying around as have you not sometimes come across people who don’t quite seem to fit their role and are rattling around knocking against the sides of their expected employment? It could be that their role is not challenging them enough, or is too challenging. It could be that their personal […]
Do You Ask the Advice of Others?
We don’t like asking the advice of others especially when it is exposing a weakness in ourselves. However, keeping quiet and not asking is a recipe for disaster. Sure, to err is human and I believe we learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes however it is better to make an […]
Don’t Dismiss Until You’ve Tried It
One of my pet hates is when someone announces that they definitely don’t like something (e.g. Indian or Chinese Food). “Have you tried it then” I will enquire to which the answer is invariably “no”. So how on earth do they know they don’t like it. Some of our likes and dislikes are inherited; our […]
Stay Open to New Ideas
So you’ve reached your pinnacle. You are top of the heap. You are master of all you survey…..or are you? Are you open to new ideas or satisfied you know it all? One of the dangers we can all face is complacency. With success, there is a real possibility of you thinking that you have […]
Brain awareness and avoiding sabre-toothed tigers
How to develop your awareness Day in and day out our brains are having to think and take in millions of bits of information but just how much of this are we fully, properly aware of? It is important to be keenly aware even in this age when we are not (normally) being chased by […]
How Observant Are You?
I don’t know about you but I am terrible at remembering names. I can often be seen within a group of people hoping someone will say another’s name. The thing that offsets this is that I have a really good memory for remembering faces. I have written before about how it’s important to be quiet […]