Communication – the key to success
Simple tricks to help with clarifying communications include: Think about your reader – what will they need to know? How will you know when you have achieved what you set out to do? Is this the best way to get over what you are trying to say?
Busyness or Business Leadership
Good leaders have an ability to communicate their ideas for the organisation and for the people they are talking too. They know how to translate the ideas into achievable packets of work and more importantly how to show that things have been achieved, they are positive about successes and know how to learn […]
What do these people do?
In many cases people make themselves (accidentally or by design) indispensable to the organisation for a number of reasons ranging from security to self-importance. Are they really important to the organisation, the owner may disagree but they may be guilty of creating and sustaining the environment. For example does everyone in the organisation have a […]
Your best asset!
Engaged and highly performing employees are happy to be at work, not all the time, this is not utopia but they mostly feel valued and understand what they need to do and how to do it. They are generally more concerned about the value they bring to the whole not necessarily the other way around. […]
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30
Jun
Happy New Financial Year
I am, unashamedly a big fan of checklists, and also of continuous improvement. To me they go hand in hand. I can’t imagine why you would want to even run the chance of repeating a mistake and wasting time fixing something that you could have got right the first time if you had just remembered […]
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4
Mar
New Year – New You – New Me
I start every year full of optimism and determine to embrace new challenges and develop new skill, last year it was different learning mechanisms and the year before that it was about starting my own business (although I didn’t know it at the time). This year was going to be about health and fitness, but […]
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27
Aug
The Recruiter’s Paradigm
Recently while attending a seminar I was party to a discussion that moved from the subject of the seminar into ‘why minorities need to be much better than everyone else to be considered for the same role’ – my reaction was that why would you want to lower yourself to those standards? As flippant as […]
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16
Jul
Where to next?
Undoubtedly the most problematical ‘problem’ in the current political environment in the what to do about Donald. Unfortunately, the problem is not going to be solved in true Hollywood fashion. Perhaps the problem is not what to do about Donald but what to do after Donald, whenever that happens and for whatever reason, post Donald […]
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30
Apr
To Share or Not to Share
Currently there are many articles and adverts that are focusing on how ‘tailoring’ is the key to engaging with Millennials. Whether that tailoring is about the ‘work experience’, the credit card package or technology. Very little is said in similar arenas about why the tailoring for Millennials is any different from tailoring for Gen X […]
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30
Apr
A Mediocre Life ?
Not sure if you saw this posting http://www.alifeinprogress.ca/want-mediocre-life/. I must admit I am not always the best follower of things that go viral, but this one caught my attention. I have never thought of myself of being competitive – I don’t play sports, even spectating most of the time I genuinely want to see the […]
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26
Feb
The first steps on the business.
If you ask most business owners what their goals are at least one I would suggest is going to be directly related to increasing the bottom line – making more money – and profit is not a ‘dirty’ word. But as many books, self help manuals, blogs and coaches will tell you the trick […]
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29
Jan
Strategic thinking taught or learned?
Recently I assessed my professional development needs. I was choosing between ‘technical/specialist’ needs and general requirements. In the end, I decided to consolidate some of my experience with recognised certifications. Not something I would normally have done but looking around there is enough evidence to show that if you don’t have the right ‘letters’ after your […]
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31
Dec
Labels vs Hooks
I started to write this when I was considering what professional development I need to undertake, while I was researching what options were available I found myself pondering an article about giving up alcohol and wanting a new label – ‘teetotal’ not being acceptable or having the wrong connotations. Having got over the glib response […]
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27
Nov
Welcome to On The Business
On The Business mission is to help our Clients to feel as if they have got their life back, they are spending quality time on developing their business and their personal life rather than on the day to day ‘grind’ of the business. In this role we are not coaches but we will do the things […]
Read More
Happy New Financial Year
I am, unashamedly a big fan of checklists, and also of continuous improvement. To me they go hand in hand. I can’t imagine why you would want to even run the chance of repeating a mistake and wasting time fixing something that you could have got right the first time if you had just remembered […]
Read More
New Year – New You – New Me
I start every year full of optimism and determine to embrace new challenges and develop new skill, last year it was different learning mechanisms and the year before that it was about starting my own business (although I didn’t know it at the time). This year was going to be about health and fitness, but […]
Read More
The Recruiter’s Paradigm
Recently while attending a seminar I was party to a discussion that moved from the subject of the seminar into ‘why minorities need to be much better than everyone else to be considered for the same role’ – my reaction was that why would you want to lower yourself to those standards? As flippant as […]
Read More
Where to next?
Undoubtedly the most problematical ‘problem’ in the current political environment in the what to do about Donald. Unfortunately, the problem is not going to be solved in true Hollywood fashion. Perhaps the problem is not what to do about Donald but what to do after Donald, whenever that happens and for whatever reason, post Donald […]
Read More
To Share or Not to Share
Currently there are many articles and adverts that are focusing on how ‘tailoring’ is the key to engaging with Millennials. Whether that tailoring is about the ‘work experience’, the credit card package or technology. Very little is said in similar arenas about why the tailoring for Millennials is any different from tailoring for Gen X […]
Read More
A Mediocre Life ?
Not sure if you saw this posting http://www.alifeinprogress.ca/want-mediocre-life/. I must admit I am not always the best follower of things that go viral, but this one caught my attention. I have never thought of myself of being competitive – I don’t play sports, even spectating most of the time I genuinely want to see the […]
Read More
The first steps on the business.
If you ask most business owners what their goals are at least one I would suggest is going to be directly related to increasing the bottom line – making more money – and profit is not a ‘dirty’ word. But as many books, self help manuals, blogs and coaches will tell you the trick […]
Read More
Strategic thinking taught or learned?
Recently I assessed my professional development needs. I was choosing between ‘technical/specialist’ needs and general requirements. In the end, I decided to consolidate some of my experience with recognised certifications. Not something I would normally have done but looking around there is enough evidence to show that if you don’t have the right ‘letters’ after your […]
Read More
Labels vs Hooks
I started to write this when I was considering what professional development I need to undertake, while I was researching what options were available I found myself pondering an article about giving up alcohol and wanting a new label – ‘teetotal’ not being acceptable or having the wrong connotations. Having got over the glib response […]
Read More
Welcome to On The Business
On The Business mission is to help our Clients to feel as if they have got their life back, they are spending quality time on developing their business and their personal life rather than on the day to day ‘grind’ of the business. In this role we are not coaches but we will do the things […]
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