Even a quick skim through the financial pages of any newspaper, or tuning into a financial channel, will show an almost fanatical focus on one aspect of business in particular – growth. Time and again, you’ll hear variations on the theme that if a business isn’t growing, it’s effectively dying. This can be a confusing…
Read More7 Secrets Of Business Success
If there’s one constant over the course of a business life, it’s that you have to remain continually open to new learning. Once you’ve hit a certain level in your career, it’s all too easy to keep relying on the same tried and true tactics and strategies which have fuelled your rise to date. This…
Read MoreThe Secret Of Small Business Success: Relationships
As anyone who’s ever had to do it can confirm, running a small business is no simple task. In many ways, you’re tasked with solving a very similar set of problems to that of a larger enterprise – just with less resources and personnel! Larger firms can afford to handle many operations themselves. They have…
Read MoreA Baker’s Dozen Best Habits On How To Build Rapport
Think of the most likeable person you know. What do you think it is that makes them so amenable to others, so easy to get along with? What’s the first thing that comes to mind? It can be a tricky question. We’re much more likely to be able to recognise and respond to likeability than…
Read More10 Things Great Bosses Provide Their Employees With
All bosses need to possess a similar set of core skills. Attention to detail, grace under fire, a keen eye for the bottom line, process-oriented and results driven – these are all qualities that even a mediocre manager could reasonably be expected to demonstrate every day. What sets the great bosses apart though is what…
Read MoreHow to Keep Calm in the Face of Last Minute Projects
One of the main bugbears of modern office life is that you are very rarely in total control of your working week. More often than not, just when you think you have your working week nicely scheduled and divided into manageable chunks, something large and unexpected will arrive in your inbox and leave those best…
Read More4 Steps to Beat a Bad Mood
As humans we are mood-driven creatures by nature but those moods need to be actively managed. Learning to control rather than simply react to negative thoughts or emotions is one of the most important life-skills you can master. How often have you seen a colleague or boss get a crucial decision wrong because they were…
Read More4 Tips To Turbocharge Your Primary Goal
Most people, when pressed, will be able to identify one big primary goal that they have in their life at any given time. It could be learning a new language, being a better parent, getting in shape for summer or smashing last year’s sales record. Admittedly, identifying that primary goal can take a bit of…
Read More10 Tips For Tackling Toxic People
There’s no getting away from it. At some stage, in both your personal and professional life, you will inevitably run into one or more truly toxic people. And, though they are often portrayed in cartoonish ways in the mass media, the negative effect they can have on your life is very real indeed. Unfortunately, toxic…
Read More10 Mistakes Successful People Know Never To Repeat
Mistakes, are what enable us to learn and grow as humans. There’s no shame in making them and they happen to the best of us with a crushing inevitability. There are really only two things that matter when it comes to mistakes: How you react to them. Whether you make them again. It’s the latter…
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