Up at 7, earlier if you have kids to send off to school, or you enjoy a morning workout at the gym, and then off to work by 9. Once you enter those work doors, you’ve just silently signed an 8-hour agreement to stay productive, concentrated and focused. This can be a challenge by itself […]
How to avoid meetings about meetings
Meetings are begun to share information or bring people into a common goal. This goes awry quickly, and if you see a pattern that hardly ever do meetings end with anything other than time wasted, you are not alone. Meetings quickly become about additional sessions and less about their intended purpose, and more about how […]
Management vs Leadership – Understanding The Differences
Is a good manager naturally a good leader? What are the differences between management vs leadership? The main difference between leaders and managers is that leaders have people follow them whilst managers have people who work for them. Even small business that are largely self-operated or staffed by friends and family members will require some […]
The Manifesto of a Happy Organisation
“Happiness is a journey, not a destination” (Ben Sweetland, an American psychologist and author of “Grow Rich While You Sleep”) Oh, happiness, that elusive feeling – a notion we all talk about, long for and work towards on daily basis. Happiness is no longer only a very personal, individual notion that brings a warm-and-fuzzy feeling […]
Employer Branding – Why And How You Should Build An Outstanding One
I recently came across a job ad – a standard list of “who we are – who we are looking for – what we offer” and it looked fine enough for me to consider it for an application. Yet, when I opened the enclosed recruitment video of this very organisation, I abruptly realised “Wow, it is NOT […]
