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Will You Add? - Before You Head Off, Make Sure You Know Where You Are Going - The Importance of Clear Objectives
The job market will likely have another strong month in July 2006 with an estimated 58 percent of employers in the manufacturing and service sectors planning on increased hiring, according to the findings of a recent study released last July 27.The leading Indicator of National Employment (LINE), a report that was jointly
Don’t follow everyone else down the A1 if you are trying to get to Aberdeen!
Busy fools
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Mistakes happen, and even the best person has made faux-pas. After all, humans learn by experience, so a few errors helps us be better people in the end. One moment in your life that you don't want to be in a learning curve is when you're out looking for a job - a mistake during an interview or on your resume can cost you the
The latest thing!
In business we are often worse devotees of fashion than any teenager. We undertake initiatives, programmes and structural changes regularly to follow the latest trends in management thinking. Think of business process re-engineering, lean manufacturing, web services, outsourcing, “off-shoring” - the list is endless. Now each of these have their place and can have a dramatic, and often very positive, effect on an organisation, but how often are they selected simply because they are what everyone else is doing or what the consultants are pushing this year?
All of the activities listed above are tools to achieve certain aims and every organisation’s aims are unique.
Don’t follow everyone else down the A1 if you are trying to get to Aberdeen!
Busy fools
Although in some organisations bureaucracy can lead to action never being taken on anything, in many the opposite is true. Particularly in the SME secto
Executive coaching is here to stay…Retaining the services of an executive coach or mentor represents what I believe to be the ultimate business advantage available to professionals. With the numerous studies that have been authored which provide ample data affirming the extraordinary results that can be achieved through utilizin
The latest thing!
In business we are often worse devotees of fashion than any teenager. We undertake initiatives, programmes and structural changes regularly to follow the latest trends in management thinking. Think of business process re-engineering, lean manufacturing, web services, outsourcing, “off-shoring” - the list is endless. Now each of these have their place and can have a dramatic, and often very positive, effect on an organisation, but how often are they selected simply because they are what everyone else is doing or what the consultants are pushing this year?
All of the activities listed above are tools to achieve certain aims and every organisation’s aims are unique.
Don’t follow everyone else down the A1 if you are trying to get to Aberdeen!
Busy fools
Although in some organisations bureaucracy can lead to action never being taken on anything, in many the opposite is true. Particularly in the SME secto
It is time to stop being so serious and have some fun with the universal Law of Attraction, also known as the Law of Belief.In simple words, this Law states that "you get exactly what you believe", "it is done unto you as you believe", "be it done unto you according to your faith", "your deeply held beliefs are material
All of the activities listed above are tools to achieve certain aims and every organisation’s aims are unique.
Don’t follow everyone else down the A1 if you are trying to get to Aberdeen!
Busy fools
Although in some organisations bureaucracy can lead to action never being taken on anything, in many the opposite is true. Particularly in the SME secto
Once you get the call for the interview, the next thing that you have to do is prepare for it. Following are a 5 steps for a successful interview: (1) Do your research – It doesn’t matter how much knowledge or experience you have about the position that you are trying to get in a company if you don’t have a clu
All of the activities listed above are tools to achieve certain aims and every organisation’s aims are unique.
Don’t follow everyone else down the A1 if you are trying to get to Aberdeen!
Busy fools
Although in some organisations bureaucracy can lead to action never being taken on anything, in many the opposite is true. Particularly in the SME secto
Have you ever purchased a coffee from Starbucks?How come they can charge you five times what it’s worth and we still go and buy it? Ever wondered what’s going on here?Well, the reason is: they are not just selling coffee – they are selling us a lifestyle.Th
Don’t follow everyone else down the A1 if you are trying to get to Aberdeen!
Busy fools
Although in some organisations bureaucracy can lead to action never being taken on anything, in many the opposite is true. Particularly in the SME sector, action is prized much higher than planning. This can help in adapting quickly to change but often has the effect of creating “busy fools”. Doing something is better than doing nothing, but it is worth a check to determine whether we are doing the right thing.
That five minutes to check the map before we pull away can save hours in getting lost on the way to our destination!
Stop and Think!
Before undertaking any activity or project, stop and think about how it meets your strategic objectives. If you don’t have any strategic objectives then get that sorted before you do anything else.
With a clear idea about what your organisation is trying to achieve you can “cherry-pick” from the tools and techniques available and ensure that all of your resources are focussed on activities that will help you to achieve those aims. The success of these activities is also greatly enhanced, as employees understand why they are undertaking them, instead of paying them lip service while dismissing them as the management team’s
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