Better in Business – Time Management – Poor Planning
In our experience, poor time management is very often a symptom of poor planning. If you begin each day without a plan you’re likely to jump from random task to random task.
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Better in Business: Leadership – Ability to say “No”
If you make a point of always saying “Yes”, there’s a real danger that someone else’s disorganisation becomes one more job on your to-do list.
Better in Business – Time Management: Meetings without a purpose
‘Vision without implementation is hallucination.’ Meetings are an important tool for bringing your business vision into being. But recent research shows that most employees say they waste more than 30 hours a month in meetings. Nearly 40% admit to falling asleep; more than 70% admit to doing other work; and over 90% admit to daydreaming.…
Better in Business: Time Management: Messy Desk Syndrome
Did you know that 30% of employees’ time is spent trying to find lost documents? That’s 72 days a year! Executives are no better – they spend 6 weeks a year looking for lost documents. ‘Messy desk syndrome’ and ‘random stack technology’ are alive and well, it seems. And represent an important obstacle to your…
Better in Business: Leadership – Clear Goals & Vision
I like to remind people: ‘If you aim for nothing, you will hit it with amazing accuracy’.
Better in Business Tip: Leadership – Procrastination
My most used saying is this: ‘Never let perfect get in the way of better’. A major cause of procrastination is the fear that you’re not going to do a perfect job. Does this ring a bell? Find out about the other reasons we procrastinate, and what to do about it.