Everywhere you look there are articles, courses and seminars on the subject sustainability. Almost every business now has to have the word sustainability added to it. Sustainable manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, sustainable power and the list goes on. There are more sustainability consultants than you can shake a stick at but…
Nearly every business I visit worries about the competition. They are constantly working with one glance over their shoulder at the competition to see if they are cheaper, quicker, better. This is not an effective way of running any organisation. Effective organisations only have one competitor and that’s themselves. The…
All businesses need to make profits to survive. Most businesses look to increase profits over time. Poorly managed businesses think that constantly planning to increase turnover will increase profits. We need to look at how to effectively increase profits. Put simplistically, PROFIT = SALES – COSTS. In a purely mathematical…
In organisations there can be case for managers and even executives but that case is rare and usually poor. What are required by most organisations are leaders and “doers”. It would great if everyone was a leader, but whilst anyone can be a leader, not everyone wants to be a…
In Part 1 How To Get Back On Track Effectively Part 1 we recognised a problem. Now in how to get back on track effectively Part 2 we look at the plan for the solution. Any work can be divided into categories as follows: Immediate Income Earning Work – vitally important…
The more observant of you will have realised that for the last few weeks there have been no blogs. The reason for this is simple. I have not been taking my own advice. Two large projects have come along which I have allowed to hijack my overall objective and despite…
In Part 1 How To Be Effective Part 1 we looked at the importance of setting the objective. Now, in How To Be Effective Part 2 we need to consider one of the biggest problems of all, how to create and use time in order to be effective. This also leads…
Just over one year ago I started blogging regularly. Since then, one topic has run through everything, that of effectiveness. Not productivity and not efficiency. Effectiveness goes well beyond both of those. the time has now come to write a series of blogs on actually becoming effective. Welcome to How…
As part of my job I do a great deal of training. One thing I am increasingly noticing is that often so called “leaders” send their teams on courses but say that they are too busy (important). They forget that effective leaders need to learn. Anyone who says they are…
Most of us are hopefully good at something. Nobody is good at everything. That’s why effective people know how to delegate. Spoiler alert – it’s a skill with which I really struggle. When you first set up in business you are the one who has to do everything. The problem…