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3 Ways to Accelerate Team Performance
Improving team performance comes from both within and without If you are running a team or project team, especially when you have new team or one where there has been a change in team membership, you need to bring them up to speed as quickly as possible. Underpinning is this how you can capture, use and capitalise on the team’s knowledge, expertise, experience and insights. Here are three ways by which you can do this: Encourage collaboration and co-mentoring Capture
Using the Value-Price Seesaw to Make More Money
Price is what you pay, the value is what you get! – Warren Buffett Are your prices too low? Are you not getting paid enough? Do your customers do not appreciate what you do for them? Why is this? Whose fault is it? I can tell you the answer – and you probably won’t like it! If your prices are too low then it is your fault. Yes, yours and no-one else’s. So, you need to do something about it!
5 Keys for Recovering from a Technology Failure
…how to accelerate your recovery and get results faster! Businesses are increasingly reliant on technology to do large amounts of business-critical work; and when it goes wrong it can have a disastrous impact in terms of cost, time, people and effort. Not only have you ‘sunk’ considerable investments into something that has not delivered, but you now must recover from the situation and then play catch-up. So, what can you do to accelerate this? Five Tools for Accelerating Your Technology
How to Avoid Staff Turnover Impacting Your Teams
How to reduce the risks and costs of changes in your teams High staff turnover is a major cost and drain on an organisation. Apart from the costs associated with recruiting and replacing an individual, a major cost (which is often under-estimated) is the loss of knowledge, expertise, insights and relationships. This becomes a real problem when an experienced individual retires, takes redundancy or leaves for another job. When they go they take their relationship and everything that is “up
7 Secrets for Successful Business Growth
If you want to grow your business, and I mean really grow your business, then here are a few simple but powerful secrets you can use. When you get to the end there is an eighth and even more powerful secret to share! 7 Secrets + 1 Know what you do and what you don't do. The temptation for many small business owners is to do anything to earn the next dollar. In trying to be all things for
Build Your Tribe
Do you want to get more clients? Are you finding it hard? Are you meeting lots of people and generating lots of leads through your online and offline networks? Are you meeting with people who are expressing an interest in what you do? And are you then finding that very few of them are converting, and those that do are taking a long time to do so? If so, the fault is not with them – it is with you!
Busy-ness and Productivity
We are all working in an environment where we are expected to do more, with less, more quickly. So, we look to work faster and quicker in what we do. But this has led to a problem. The problem is this. Busy-ness = Good From this the belief has developed that the busier we are the better. This is wrong and leads to two key problems – people feel over-whelmed and over-scheduled. When this happens to you, or your staff,
Five Ways to Generate Opportunities and Possibilities
There is only one way to generate real opportunities and possibilities that can take you to the next level, whatever that may be for you. And that is to take action. Here are five ways to accelerate your ability to take action: “Try not. Do or do not. There is no try “– Yoda (Star Wars) A great quote that makes a powerful point. If you are going to do something, then DO it! Don’t wait around, even worse don’t
The Power of Visualization
How your mind can work for you, and against you! Get your team, individually and collectively, to picture where they want the team to be at a given time (e.g. financial year-end). Get them to see the picture of what it will look like, how they will feel, what they are doing. It is important for them to be clear not on just where they will be, but how they will get there. What do they have to do, day in and day