The final words of a business owner just before Fair Work Australia asked them to join court for bullying. Now is the time to actually understand what bullying means....did you know it is only bullying if it’s reoccurring? Call a HR Consultant like Inspire Success...... www.inspire-success.com to understand more. It is about your team understanding [...]
When it comes to ‘buts’ or other bits of free advice they need to be treated with varying degrees of respect...... and value! Buts can be interrogated, challenged, answered or ignored.... the art is in evaluating their source and then pursuing or ignoring them quickly.... because more often than not they are simply the mist [...]
An extraordinary thing is a “trust bank”.....McDonalds invests in it and every now and again has to make some withdrawals from it. Our clients, our customers, our public need to know that we are investing in them and when it comes to the community that can be as valuable in “tough times” as any standard [...]
“The objective of your business in 2014 needs to be the delivery of a one third reduction in cycle times“...... excuse me????? Translation.... this means cutting your order time, delivery time, production time etc, etc, while managing the quality and the expectations of clients and suppliers. This New Year will be the year that productivity [...]
There are no surprises here. We are in a buyer’s market and they are demanding more for less! Our challenge - real or perceived we need to be doing more, and the challenge is how do we do it? All we need to know is what's really important to your clients, how they are judging [...]
The threatened opening line of an email to a client this week, and a reflection of their, no my, inability to convince them that the market has changed. “But this is what we did last year and we’ll just do a little bit more this year”…. Not unless you change the tools, unless you change [...]
Sun Tzu said it in the “Art of war”: “Without goals, strategies are the slowest way to a victory. Without tactics, what you hear is the noise before defeat.” Neither can operate without objectives…..they can be daily, monthly, yearly or lifetime, if you’re true to them and approach them with great discipline then they will [...]
It is about making decisions, it is about moving forward. You cannot make a decision to do nothing! In business you are constantly looking for solutions and then creating actions to deliver those solutions. Let me be argumentative….it’s got nothing to do with failing to plan…it has everything to do with failing to act. Even [...]
Business owners need to be: • Leaders. • Sales people. • Decision makers. • Action oriented. • Driven. • Disciplined. • Energetic. There is one thing that will allow someone who’s not all of these things to run a great business and it is unceasing energy. Energy...... it lets you make the wrong decisions. It [...]
At best a distraction, at worst irrelevant. What did you put aside to read this? Should I go back to what I was doing or is there a better action, a better outcome, a better decision, a more appropriate direction I should be taking?