We have discussed the problems with trying to manage time on several occasions in the past You Can’t Manage Time But You Can Use It Better and so we are all too aware that everyone on the planet has the same 24 hours in a day. We all spend those 24…
The reason most people don’t do things is because they are afraid that they may fail. We live in an environment where “failure is not tolerated” but we see that those who succeed usually do so by failing first. If you don’t try you won’t fail but you won’t succeed…
We’ve all heard the definition of a consultant. Someone who turns up, borrows your watch, charges you a fortune to tell you the time and keeps the watch. Good consultants enable you to have the resources to buy a better watch, but they seem to be few and far between.…
My wife loves Wordle and plays every morning, often whilst I am writing this blog. Recently we had a discussion which made me think why Wordle shows how effective you or your organisation will be. The boss said to me there had been a “really great word”, “one that really…
Different research gives different figures for the cost of stress at work but no matter which one you take the cost in the UK runs into tens of billions of pounds and in the US over a hundred billion dollars. This makes the cost of the pandemic seem trivial. The…
In the modern environment one of the few things that is certain in business and in your personal life is uncertainty. It’s here to stay and so we need to learn how to effectively deal with uncertainty. First let us understand the difference between risk and uncertainty as they are…
How many times have you got to the end of the week completely shattered having worked really hard and then sat back and realised that you have achieved very little of what you set out to do? For many people this is the norm rather than the exception and so…
Why are so many people so time poor? Ask anyone “how are you?” and you are more likely to get a comment on their state of time management than their state of health. Answers such as “busy”, “snowed under”, “rushed off my feet” and “drowning” are common responses. Here are…
Communication has never been so easy. Mobile phone, email, text, WhatsApp, Facebook, Zoom, Teams etc. etc. We move in an age where communication has never been so easy or so poor. Yes, communication – easy but not always effective. Here are five questions to make your communications more effective. The…
We all know the problem with time management is that the amount of time we have available in any one day, week or year is fixed. We also know that very few, if any people on their death bed say “I wish I had made more productive or efficient use…