BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 27 – MANAGING MEETINGS Do you hold formal or informal meetings? Today, managing meetings is much more informal compared to how it used to be done. Perhaps, if you are involved in a large structured business, a corporation or public company most meetings are still more formal. In such companies, not to
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 26 – PROCRASTINATION AND DECISION MAKING In this session I am taking a rather different stance to the usual Decision Making theory. Usually I talk about making SMART decisions, where they should be specific and clearly stated, measurable, achievable, relevant and timed or time orientated. This time, I talk about how it
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 25 – DEALING WITH TIME WASTERS & INTERRUPTIONS Have you ever been totally motivated and dedicated to getting a good day’s work done and then you have a day when every person in the world seems intent on interrupting you and filling your day with time wasters? Well I have. And do
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 24 – EFFECTIVE DELEGATION 2 Today I am following on the discussion on effective delegation and talking about some of the reasons why things can go wrong and outcomes do not turn out as you have planned. I also take a look at the 6 rules of authority and talk about why
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 23 – EFFECTIVE DELEGATION Do you stomp around feeling stressed, overpowered with work and not enough time? Have you tried to delegate tasks to other people only to have a disaster of a result and have now given up? What you need is to learn more about the rules of Effective Delegation,
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 16 – TIME MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES (REPEAT) Because of the poor quality of the video when it was posted last, I have decided to run it again. Here is a better version of this bst. When was the last time you had time off to just have fun, enjoy being with your partner, your
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 20 – WORK LIFE BALANCE TIPS PART 2 How much are you worth? Are the extra hours that you pack into your business worth your cost in terms of results, in terms of your bottom line profits? Have you worked that out yet, i.e. how much your time is really worth at
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 19 – WORK LIFE BALANCE TIPS FOR HEALTH Do you wake up in the morning feeling tired and stressed out, find it hard to face work? Chances are, you are burning out and need to take a break! Can’t spare the time, you say? Oh yes you can. It happened to me
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 18 – CUSTOMER FEEDBACK METHODS Do you chug along busy as a bee and happy as a pig wallowing in the mud? Are you a born worrier, spending endless hours fretting over every little detail? Somewhere in between is a sensible, confident business person who knows that however busy they are, however
BUSINESS SKILLS TIPS 17 – HEALTH AND FITNESS Who is the most important person in your business, why you are! So, are you taking care of your greatest asset and looking after your health and fitness? You owe it to yourself to make sure that you are fit and healthy, rested, refreshed and that you