Procrastination: the Causes and Consequences
Procrastination costs businesses money and creates tension and stress for the person suffering from it. This short article looks at the types of procrastination and how to combat it.
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What Makes a Great Leader?
Leadership requires specific skills to help lead your team to success. These skills are dependant upon the ability, expertise and motivation of your staff and the industry you operate in. This article looks at three types of Leadership style.
Staff Training
There are 3.5 million ‘economically inactive’ 50 – 64 years old in the UK. This article covers how to attract them, retain them and benefit from them.
Recruitment – No Vacancies!
Staff turnover is part of being in business. However, vacancies cause disruption and enhanced workload for those covering. The skill is to be proactive on your recruitment policy, not reactive. Build a ‘squad’ of staff who you can bring in to the business as soon as you receive a resignation.
Managing Staff Working From Home
The WFH phenomena is here to stay. The skills required to manage staff not in the office are different to when they were in the office. This article looks at some common themes and solutions.
Dealing with Conflict
Recognising the importance of including cultural communication as a subject within conflict, communication and interpersonal skills training courses.
Create conflict to boost production
Recognise the importance to create conflict for the benefit of your business. To enhance and boost performance, manager’s need to be challenged to be innovative and to problem solve. This challenge needs to come from within the business, with all managers challenging those that under deliver their commitments.
Managerial skills
Three Management tips taken from Ian Holloway’s (football manager) autobiography of management.
WFH and Managing yourself
Managing yourself working from home can be challenge in itself. Here are five tips how you can be even more successful working from home than in the office.
New to Management?
Being new to management means you need to learn a new set of skills. This article looks at 10 of the first golden rules to master.