Your Administration Team - Look After Them

In most organisations the administration/support team, although they can be acknowledged as being important to the business, they are treated as if they're not. Day after day, week after week they ar...

What's Wrong With You, Why Don't You Understand Me?

Recently while waiting for our lunch to be served in a nearby restaurant, my husband Michael and I were discussing our son’s upcoming science fair project. Michael was describing the steps that my s...

Leadership, Genuine, Meaningful and Productive

One of the best lessons I have learned is the impact and importance of leadership. It is so easy to identify dysfunctional leadership in a company (or of a governmental entity!). Many times, the common misconception is that the executives in the “ivory tower” sit around and relax, while the “workers” do all the work.

Empower Your Trainees

One of the most memorable quotes that I heard from a trainer came from a man I knew named Rizal: “As trainees, you are supposed to interrupt me if you don’t understand something. You are supposed to ask questions. But you are not to go ahead of where we are in the class. All of the sections will be covered in due time.”

Collaboration Software - Building an Office Without Walls

Do you want to build your office without walls and without bounds with regards to productivity? Then you should consider implementing collaboration software.

Designing and Deploying Human Centric Processes

Suggestions for success in human-centric process reengineering projects, by applying best practices in knowledge intensive environments.

Employee and Coworkers Gifts

Giving gifts to your co-workers or your employees can be a tricky business. You want to give something that is they will really enjoy but doesn't break your piggy bank. You want to give something that suits the individual's tastes but doesn't suggest anything politically. Here you'll find some suggestions that for the most part can be given to either sex and to anyone of almost any age which we think will help you in your gift giving search.

Communication between franchisees in a franchise system

If you own a franchise you would be wise to stay in constant communication with your fellow and local franchisee counterparts. You should call up once a week and simply say; Hi. It is important to call up and just say hi to your fellow franchisees because it will remind them that you are always near by.

Leadership - Do The Simple But Important Things

Being a great leader depends on following a few simple but powerful rules. The trouble is the rules are not sexy, not demanding and seem insignificant. However, keep doing a combination of them on a daily basis and your people will know you're a brillinat leader.

Team Building Part 2: Honesty is the Key!

Part 2 of an article condensed from a seminar presented by John Roberts of JayrConsulting Ltd on really effective team building without all the jargon and hype of current training methods...

Motivate People with Feedback

One of the top three factors that motivate people at work is - feedback. The majority of people want to know how they're doing at work. They want to know when they're doing well and they want to know when they could be doing better. There are a small minority of people who don't want feedback at all; but let's face it; you don't want these people on your team anyway...

How to Align Your Team through Change

Learn about the Eight Principles for Purposeful Alignment – the key for getting your team fully behind a change initiative, and ways to create new ways of thinking and behaving to support the change.

Story Telling With a Purpose

Strategically-used stories can help us communicate more effectively by adding emotion or context, providing proof, or giving us a chance to poke fun at ourselves.