22nd of July, 2021
As leaders and business owners do you sometimes wonder about how much of an expert you really need to be? Personally, I have subscribed to this quote: “Even if you don’t do the work, you should know the work.”
8th of July, 2021
If you are implementing 90-day planning, then you would have just completed Quarter 1. What worked well, what did not work out? First to yourself and second to your team, I encourage you to expand on reflecting Q1’s performance. However, most importantly, explain the behaviour that did or did not happen resulting in these results.
Based on my own experience and after asking many others, these are the top 5 reasons why we don’t say it like it is to our staff: 1. You are concerned that…
24th of June, 2021
Of the many such statement I have come across, the over whelming majority focus on explaining what the company does at a ‘practical level.’ These statements result in little to no benefit to the company at all. They go something along the lines of: “ABC purpose is to serve our country with great toilet rolls.”.
24th of June, 2021
If you employ staff, why do you? I am not referring to legal semantics here, like are they employed or are the subcontractors etc. What I am asking here is: are you employing staff just to lay your hands on, well, more hands? Or in the ideal world, should these people be contributing to the overall improvement of the business?
10th of June, 2021
Here are some valuable questions that will directly indicate how ready you are to lead others.
27th of May
Heard of the power of 1? Like compound interest, just a 1% improvement in 1% of your business, made consistently results in spectacular performance improvements. Well, research has shown that if you fix this #1 mistake, expect to get at least a 10% improvement in employee productivity. That’s mind bogglingly big!
27th May, 2021
Have you ever been in a situation where you don’t really know what to do: you have essentially been thrown into the deep end and you need to take action immediately or drown? At first you just grapple at anything and hopefully survive, but after some time you realise that you have in fact made progress. After a long while you either become okay at it, or if you are committed, an Ace. Well thinking is the same, and with the help of Pink Sheets you could soon become an Ace.
13th of May, 2021
Want to tap into your creativity? Follow these tips: 5 no-brainer things you can do that don’t require models, learnings or cryptic code to get right.
29th of April, 2021
We all have opinions about what is right and what is wrong: the challenge each of us faces is facing up to the fact that our paradigms are limiting ourselves and sometimes what we believe is wrong, is in fact not so.
The average SME starts from the typical ‘garage’, i.e., the owner invests some dollars and leverages off their experience or training to start their business….
8th of April, 2021
In the business, problems and errors are inevitable. A reoccurring, costly and massively irritating problem that you think should not really be that hard to fix, except you seem to be failing in finding a permanent fix. Here, you will learn a solution that will benefit you in your business.