I recently read on a business advisor website that a clear vision serves as an anchor for any organisation. Personally, I associate anchors with stop things from moving forward! In any event, on searching further for inspirational vision statements, I realise that the real problem is there is a great deal of confusion about the […]

Want a thriving business?
We suggest you might focus on developing relationship management and project management soft skills

I think lots of business development actions I hear of seem to be doing something but with no clear purpose or plan. For me they fall into the Nightmare category.

Gone are the days when the only way for a career was directly up.

I suggest that thinking differently might keep your career moving quicker and longer.

We feel that in any organisation, employees need to feel that their contributions are recognised.
Often it’s managers who design and implement recognition strategies for employees.
However you may wish to consider some other ideas for developing recognition systems.

Why then do we find managers happy to “Shoot from the Lip”.
Many rock up and start asking questions. Different questions at random.
Lots have never been trained on how to interview. Our Interviewer Skills Training Workshopcould help?
They relegate themselves to being poor or at best mediocre interviewers.
Perhaps if they were trained they may hire better people
And hey don’t better people build better businesses?

Everyone agrees hiring the right people is so important…

Why then do we find managers happy to “Shoot from the Lip”.
Many rock up and start asking questions.
Different questions at random.
Lots have never been trained on how to interview.

Our experience is that you can spend an awful lot of manager and employee time trying to solve a performance problem.
And all of it can be wasted if neither the manager nor employee know what is the root cause of the problem

Employee coaching can and does take place in many circumstances.
Anytime a conversation takes place to guide behavior or build new knowledge or skills.

When you are building the business case for employee training it can sometimes be difficult to convince management teams of the need and benefits to the business. However it’s just like any business case, we need to persuade others through demonstrating the benefits and telling them what’s in it for the business.

We’ve set out below 6 suggestions as to what may help you and your team pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get back to the job of increasing revenues, decreasing costs and improving client delight with your services after a bout of company restructuring or downsizing

If you are doing any kind of recruiting of new people then asking great questions and digging techniques are important interviewing skills to acquire.
Competency based Interviewing is asking a question about a candidate’s previous behaviour and experience.
The topic of the question should be about a competency required to be successful in the job role.