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13/10/2022 No Comments

Delegate, Delegate, Delegate


Do you find yourself spending a lot of your time doing menial tasks that don’t help your business move forward? The management consultant and author Peter Drucker once remarked that, when it comes to a company’s overall performance, the ... Read More

29/09/2022 No Comments

Stop Pouring Your Money Down the Drain


If your money isn’t stretching as far as it used to, chances are you’ve allowed “budget creep” to infiltrate your company’s resources.  Here’s how to eliminate that problem — fast! It’s an issue that negativel... Read More

11/08/2022 No Comments

5 Best Practices for Recruiting in an Employee Job Market


In this article, I look at 5 best practices for recruiting in an employee job market. Over the past 15 years, we have seen significant changes in the job market. The crash of 2008 led to a spike in unemployment and fewer open vacancies. Gradually ove... Read More

04/08/2022 No Comments

A Four-Step Recruiting System To Hire The Right People


Recruiting is like fishing. The businesses that get the best people are the ones that get a lot of fish on the deck so they can be choosy. We want to have a whole lot of people coming to us who really want this job so that we can be the buyer choosin... Read More

28/07/2022 No Comments

The Costs & Consequences Of A Poor Recruitment Decision


Poor recruitment decisions often occur when there is pressure to fill a position quickly, and therefore corners are cut during the recruitment process. While there is always a risk when hiring a new employee, a robust recruitment & selection appr... Read More

14/07/2022 No Comments

The 7 Big Recruitment Challenges for Employers Right Now


Recruitment impacts every single aspect of the company. Hiring and nurturing talent is fundamental to growth, positive results, and ultimately business success. Zig Ziglar put it this way – “You don’t build a business. You Build People. The... Read More

07/07/2022 No Comments

Coaching Myths That Can Hold Business Owners Back


Coaching is not about being a “nice person”. It’s about performance. It’s about bringing the same structure and creativity to your interactions with your team as you bring to solving business problems. There are seven major myths surrounding ... Read More

23/06/2022 No Comments

What We Can Learn From Socrates About Staff Development


During my study for my master’s degree in Coaching and Development, I was tutored by some Olympic level sports coaches. They brought their sporting success to the world of business. Why’s this relevant? Well, let me explain the sporting origins o... Read More

16/06/2022 No Comments

Heroic CEO or Team Coach?


There are so many strategies to be implemented and changes to be managed today. The days when, in any organisation, small or large, integrating the different needs of all the stakeholders could be managed by a charismatic founder CEO are past and gon... Read More