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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?
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
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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9 Things That Make Good Employees Quit
It's pretty incredible how often we hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving. Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs, they leave...
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Emotional Ergonomics
Ergonomics is about ensuring a good fit between people, the things they do, and the objects they use and the environments in which they work, travel and play.The Science of Ergonomics is a technique complementary to human factors and as such,...
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The Problem with Safety Management Systems
Many organisations, unfortunately, believe the solution to health and safety problems is to create a huge, overpowering management system that covers all eventualities. Once this management system is in place, they look for quick and easy, not...
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Can Money as a Motivator have a Positive Effect on Safety Culture?
The assertion that money as a motivator has a positive effect on a safety culture can vary significantly depending on which level an individual works within an organisation.There are real financial incentives for senior management to actively work...
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The Paradox of Lean Leadership?
Is there a juxtaposition between the application of Lean and the necessity for leadership? Why is Lean Leadership so very challenging? Well, the challenge here is between leaders who are put into a position with a responsibility to show the cause...
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Six Powerful Prospecting Tips to Build Your Business
Why is it that some sales reps consistently earn a six-figure annual income while other reps, putting in the same hours, selling the same products, and trained by the same sales manager struggle each month financially to make ends meet? The answer...
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Are You a Bridge Builder?
Over the years, I have been fortunate to have had many people come into my life and take the time to mentor and guide me along my career path. Mentors, like bridge builders, help people go from where they are to where they want to be. Mentors build...
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The Four Cornerstones of Superior Customer Service
The heart of any company can be found beating inside the walls of its customer service department. Providing superior customer service after the sale is a smart business decision that pays long-term dividends. All the money that companies spend on...
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Adversity Gives You Strength!
How can you stay self-motivated and productive in the midst of turbulent times and a sluggish economy? How do you persevere as a salesperson when times are tough and customers seem to be holding on to every penny in fear of economic...
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Training at the Cutting Edge
Producing Professional Peak Performance, 21st Century TrainingWe are living in an incredible world of change and leadership transitions. As goes the leader, so goes the pack! This is so true from family, to the corporate world, as well as the global...
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I Would, If I Could - If Only...
I am a very lucky man. I am an international trainer and I am privileged to be given the opportunity to deliver a range of courses to a variety of professional people from many different backgrounds and industries.I absolutely recognize that whilst...
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Looking Back on 2015
Looking back on 2015 three things come to mind. The drastic drop in oil prices, the new regulations introduced in the European Union, and the greater application of Key Performance Indicators within companies.The past year (2015) has been...
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