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  • 10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business
    You start off alone. Be it as a solo business owner or a manager looking after a part of a larger business. It gets busier, you get distracted from what you want to do, because there's only one of you and you've only got one pair of hands.

    So you need to find help...
  • A Complementary Team
    We all have weaknesses. Whatever our roles.

    In management positions, one of the bigger challenges is to recognise our own shortcomings and alter our own behaviours.

    Sometimes this can be very challenging...
  • Accepting Thanks With Good Grace
    There is a huge value in accepting help in your business, to build your own capacity as well as growing your team too.

    And often, when we are given a compliment, or someone says 'Thank you', we feel it is polite to gently decline. We say things like 'It's nothing' or 'No, no - it was all you'. Yet there's much more to it than that...
  • Accountable Or Responsible - That Is The Question
    Are you ready to step up to the big time?

    The reason I ask, is a lesson I learnt once when I got myself promoted...
  • Agendas - The Key to Successful Meetings
    For meetings to consistently deliver the required performance and hence outputs, it is critical to have a prepared communication process in advance of the meeting.
  • Asking for Help
    When we lead and manage a team, whether we are business owners, run a department or just supervise a group of people in our business, we are on show. And it's the toughest place, handling everything. Yet, what is there was one thing you could do immediately, to change all that...
  • Business Development - the Importance of Just 'Talking'
    Building relationships with your people is the most valuable action you can take. And it's vital to make the time to get to know your people better.
  • Business Relationships - Promises are for Keeping
    It's a small thing, but it is so vital for business relationships. Forgetting little things promised, causes erosion of trust and belief in you...
  • Career Change Can Be Yours Anytime - But Will You Take The Step?
    Think of your dream job, the job you always wished you had and the one you'd hoped for. Now think of the job you have right now and compare the two - something missing. Fear not, there is hope for you yet!
  • Classic Leadership Styles
    Much has been said over the years about leadership styles. Yet research into the best and most practical overview leads to the easiest conclusion (there will always be variables on these, as well as mixes of them), are that there are four distinct leadership styles (plus an extra!)...
  • Dahn Yoga - Yoga for the Soul
    Nowadays, yoga is widespread and is new forms are continuously being developed today. Millions of people around the world enjoy yoga every day or week, depending on circumstances into this activity.
  • Decision Making Processes - Doing the Best You Can
    Ever been frustrated by someone who made a decision that seemed to be the wrong decision?

    You need to know the consequences of handling this badly...
  • Early Retirement - The Facts!
    Whilst 'early' retirement might sound wonderful, many people would not wish to be pensioned off quite that easily. In fact, worthwhile work in a stretching, yet enjoyable environment is probably much more likely to keep you feeling young, than an enforced early traditional retirement...
  • Employee Motivation - The 8 Basics
    To motivate your employees, it is vital that you start off with understanding that there are some things that need to be fixed first, before you can get on with the above the line actions which develop a strong and engaged culture...
  • Employee Motivation - The VERY Easy Way!
    Easy motivation of your people is possible, day-in, day out through the use of two little words - but you have to use them; and use them often.
  • Family and Your Retirement
    As the years go by, when the kids grow up and leave (if you're lucky!), you will, inevitably, start thinking about retirement and the great value having a good number of years to enjoy the autumn of your lives and your family around you...
  • Hey - Just Do It
    There can be many frustrations in business and more especially in management.

    In this little article, we'll explore more about JDI and how this weekend, it made a magnificent difference to a small town on the Scottish/English borders
  • Hot Yoga - Sweeping Away an Image
    Yoga for a quiet life? Not necessarily, there is more to Bikram Yoga than you might think...
  • How Showing a Little Appreciation Motivates Employees
    There are a whole load of resources you can find on 'motivation'. Books, tapes, internet etc. Yet it need not be so complicated...
  • How To Fulfil Your Dreams Of Starting Your Own Business
    For some, starting their own business will be their idea of a dream job. Yet reaching that wonderful goal will be daunting. Yet again, there are ways to achieve it!
  • How to Make a Difference Every Day
    Every day, everyone can make the world a better place. It's simple; it's quick and it is free...
  • Making Time for Team Building Relationships
    Whatever else you are doing - STOP! - whenever you engage with someone in conversation. Ignore pagers. Put off interruptions. At the very least make sure that you 'honour' the space that you have when you are in any sort of one-to-one with someone else.
  • Managing Your Boss - Taking the Initiaitve
    Building relationships is vital in business. When you are employed and have a boss it's even more critical, because you have an incentive to get the best from your boss - and the onus is on you.

    For bosses, try on this as a set of expectations your people have from you...
  • Maui - Your Vacation Paradise
    The island of Maui is the perfect destination for a fun-filled and relaxing getaway.

    One of the most popular Hawaiian Islands, Maui is a tropical paradise filled with amazing sights, incredible beaches and thrilling recreational activities.
  • People Management - Ten Steps to Success!
    People management skills are vital for managers - it may sound simple, yet some managers find it so challenging. But there are just a few simple ideas that you can start to incorporate.

    To get the best results you have to be very good at people management...and it's not as hard as you might think. Here are the secrets of the very best managers:-
  • Preparing to Enjoy Your Retirement
    It's a great idea to get yourself ready for retirement and there is no better time to start than as early as possible. This, of course, helps you plan to have enough funds set aside for the future...
  • Team Building - Inherit or Create?
    Is it easier to have a bunch of people that are brand new to a team, or one that you mould from those you inherit?
  • Ten Meeting Management Issues to Watch Out For
    Meetings are valuable components of organisations. Yet they need process, discipline and leadership/facilitation to work best. Here are some indicators to watch out for to highlight where things may be going wrong.
  • Ten Ways to be Better at Creating A Winning Business Culture
    Creating A Winning Culture requires more than quick-fix actions, because it is a way of being. It is how things are...
  • The Amazing Power of One More Question
    Building strong relationships is all about having two sides appreciate each other and want to build a bond that works both ways.

    This can generate the enormous benefits of collaboration. Here are twelve real benefits of this little tool...
  • The Power of Groups
    Leading your people is a lonely place to be. They expect so much of you. Your business depends on you. And it's tough too.

    New evidence, from an intriguing book, indicates that this might not be too good for your health, nor may it be giving you the best results...
  • What A Difference A Week Makes
    Sometimes a little tweak in how you manage your people can make all the difference.

    And sometimes, it's vital to look for something that will change relationships - and that can mean moving your focus slightly for a while...
  • Writing for Success - Get That Article Written!
    Article writing has become an internet explosion as marketers work out new ways to build traffic to their sites. And it isn't that hard to get started...
  • Yes and No - Effective Decision Making
    Every decision we make, in business, in life in general, is bounded by just two options. Like an on-off switch, we make one or the other - there are no variances to this. Because it's as simple as Yes or No - and so often we get it wrong...

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