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Too Busy to Plan Your Day?

Too Busy to Plan Your Day?

Wish you had more hours in the day? Always feel like you’re catching up, too much to do and too many priorities from other people? If so, then you’re no different from many employees globally who experience this frustration on a day to day...

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Selling to the Four Temperament Styles

Selling to the Four Temperament Styles

Have you ever wondered why you seem to hit it off right away with some people, while with others it's more like oil and water? A person's temperament style not only determines his or her energy level, behavioral traits, body language patterns, and...

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Is it Supply Chain or Demand Chain?

Is it Supply Chain or Demand Chain?

Have you thought about this question, do you appreciate the difference between Supply Chain and Demand Chain? Is it relevant to you and your role in your organisation?This short blog will try to answer these questions giving you the knowledge to...

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Barriers to Improving Negotiation Effectiveness

Barriers to Improving Negotiation Effectiveness

Effective negotiation is difficult – very difficult. If you think it is easy then you are probably doing it wrong. Indeed we know that many studies show that most people are actually ineffective negotiators and fall short of their...

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Delivering Successful Projects

Delivering Successful Projects

All Change!It is evident with each passing year that the rate of change in all types of organisation continues to increase. So whilst competence in the core skills required to manage day to day operation will always be key to short term performance,...

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Business Process Management: How to Thrive During the Economic Downturn

Business Process Management: How to Thrive During the Economic Downturn

The Economy of the Middle East has changed greatly in the past thirty years.  The oil industry significantly impacts the entire region, both through the great wealth and improvements in the standard of living that it generates and through the...

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Survive And Thrive During An Economic Slow Down

Survive And Thrive During An Economic Slow Down

Cycles of boom–bust–boom have historically followed repeated patterns, and during difficult economic periods it is vitally important for organisations to quickly identify key financial areas of focus to ensure not only their survival but to...

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Get The Habit - The Power of Praise

Get The Habit - The Power of Praise

STOP READING THIS ARTICLE …. for just one minute and think back to when a colleague, friend or family member took the time to observe something you did and praised you. Perhaps the scenario goes back a long time in your life, perhaps it was more...

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Management Systems to Help Your Organisations Survive and Thrive

Management Systems to Help Your Organisations Survive and Thrive

With the depressed oil market and the general economic concerns affecting industry, commerce and government around the world it is an opportune time to look at how to make your organization more efficient and effective. Many organizations have...

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Financial Awareness: Leave it to the bean-counters just will not do

Financial Awareness: Leave it to the bean-counters just will not do

It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee – in an economic downturn, financial awareness really is crucial for non-financial managers as well accountants and financial managers.Since mid-2014 when the price of crude oil began to fall...

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The Impact of Falling Oil Prices in the Middle East on Britain

The Impact of Falling Oil Prices in the Middle East on Britain

Last week, credit ratings agency Moody’s announced planned reviews to possibly downgrade four Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, The UAE, Qatar and Kuwait. This comes after 18 months of turmoil in the oil and gas industry and oil plummeting to less than...

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Focus on Contracts Management

Focus on Contracts Management

The declining oil price has been widely documented in recent times and we are still uncertain as to what is really happening in the market and what even the short term future will hold. One thing for certain is that current projects face increasing...

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Innovation and Creativity: Don’t Leave it to Chance

Innovation and Creativity: Don’t Leave it to Chance

Innovation has long been recognised as one of the most crucial factors that affects an organisation’s success. The only constant in life is that things change and evolve, and if your competitors are evolving when you are not, you risk being left...

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Is Now the Time to Reduce Your Training Budget?

Is Now the Time to Reduce Your Training Budget?

The global economy is experiencing an economic downturn that is having a major impact on all industries and all organisations. This has resulted in many organisation cutting their training budgets and overall learning and development spend. But is...

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Integrated Thinking Reporting: From a Promising Concept to a Powerful Practice

Integrated Thinking Reporting: From a Promising Concept to a Powerful Practice

The landscape of Corporate Reporting is changing quickly – no doubt about that. The concepts, elements and principles that characterize the way organizations report their annual performances are currently being questioned, debated, and redesigned...

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