How to use deadlines to your advantage We often live in fear of deadlines or see them as the main source of our stress. You know how it goes: “Only two months left to make your annual target”, “The report has to be completed and on the boss’ desk by Friday morning”, or “The customer […]
VIEW POSTHow to free time, reduce your to-do list, and move back to managing from being managed!!! Many managers often find themselves with long to-do lists which get longer, with more seeming to have been added then taken off at the end of each day. The fault for this most often lies with the manager himself […]
VIEW POSTChange starts with ourselves, but why is it so hard to do? To change ourselves we need to change our behaviour. This is difficult to do and even harder to sustain. In fact it can be one of the hardest things that we do. If you think I’m exaggerating this then answer these three questions […]
VIEW POSTHow to anticipate problems and failure before they occur We are all familiar with post-mortems and forensic examinations from all the TV crime series. Post-mortems are good for telling you what went wrong, why it went wrong, and the consequences of things going wrong (death in this instance) – but it doesn’t change the fact […]
VIEW POSTWe often look at the risks associated when people don’t conform, and we often don’t like those who fail to act in the way we want or we expect. But how often do we consider the risks associated with conformity? The answer is rarely, yet the risks are considerable. We often go along with a […]
VIEW POSTAttacking.Abdicating.Accountability. When dealing with conflict there are only three ways in which you, or your reports, can respond. These are attacking, abdicating and being accountable. Attacking – this is the first part of the “fight or flight” syndrome which we experience when we come across an uncomfortable situation. For example, we are in a meeting […]
VIEW POSTHow you say what you say can make you more powerful! How you say what you say matters! It matters in two ways: firstly, it reflects how you perceive things and yourself; and secondly, it affects how others perceive you! If you sometimes feel that you are not expressing yourself strongly enough, or are not […]
VIEW POSTAn article by Marshall Goldsmith Shared by Andrew Cooke, Blue Sky GPS It’s much harder to change others’ perceptions of our behavior than it is to change our own behavior. People’s perceptions of us are formed when they observe a sequence of actions we take that resemble one another. When other people see a pattern of resemblance, […]
VIEW POSTby Andrew Cooke, Blue Sky GPS In an interview with the New York Times, Bill Marriott, chairman of the Marriott Hotel Group, shared this useful piece of advice. He explained that as a young officer in the US Navy he was responsible for the stewards who served in the officers’ wardroom. New to his role, and being […]
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