The Challenge of Business Speeding Up It.is not how fast business goes that matters, it is how and if you can keep up! by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions The pace of doing business is speeding up not slowing down. Each year the pressure grows on all areas of a business including its people, […]
VIEW POSTThe Four Most Important Words Employees Need To Hear How to get your people to engage with you. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a recent 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 […]
VIEW POSTWhat Do Effective Leaders Do? The one thing effective leaders do. Do you do this too? by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions When you ask people what do effective leaders do you will get a range of responses – set strategy, provide direction, develop people, motivate people, create alignment of activities, and so the […]
VIEW POSTMeasuring Performance Doesn‘t Help, Measuring How You Perform Does! It is not what you do that matters, but how you do it that does! by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Significant effort, time and resources are spent by companies in assessing the current level of performance in order to be able to determine what […]
VIEW POSTTwo Questions To Attain and Maintain Focus Achieving and maintaining focus is a key skill in modern business. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a time-poor environment in which more demands are being made of us it is more and more important that we focus on what we do. This is especially true […]
VIEW POSTThe Three Key Determinants of Business Performance Having two out of three is not good enough… by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions There are three key determinants for business performance – direction, aptitude and attitude. Direction Performance occurs in context of the goals, outcomes and measures that have been established. How well are the […]
VIEW POSTDeveloping Emotional Agility & Overcoming Your “Inner Chatter” What to do when you become your own worst enemy, and how to overcome to win over yourself. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions On average you speak sixteen thousand words, a day or nearly six million words a year. That is a lot. What we […]
VIEW POSTDeveloping Your PVP – Personal Value Proposition People “buy” you – so how do you differentiate yourself from others? What can you do to attract the people you want, and to be attractive to them? Four steps in this simple template help you do this. People don’t buy from companies, they buy from people. If […]
VIEW POSTSustainable Engagement Are your people really engaged in their work or not? What does current research tell us? What are the implications of the results? by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Falling levels of engagement are leading indicators that your business is likely to experience a fall in productivity, a decline in customer service, […]
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