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Advice and tips on how to manage your time to help you decide on the most valuable use of your time to help you reach your goal.

Learn how to prioritise your work so you use your time effectively. Read More

A look at change management in the workplace and how it can affect people. Also contains a guide on how to implement change. Read More

Time management skill: Finding the high value task

Here is a time management question for you: What is "A high value task?"

Whenever we are trying to improve our time management we must answer this question.

What is the most valuable use of my time?

Notice the key word in that sentence is VALUABLE.
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Read the following and see if this rings bells with you.

During a course last week I had a conversation with a manager, called Mark, and he was explaining to me the stress he was under.

Mark said “I am a manager of a large team, and some of the people in my team are very difficult.

They seem to go out of their way to be troublesome. Read More

A common management mistake you should avoid

There is a common mistake made my many managers.

It is a cause of “errors in judgment”. Read More

This is one of the best pieces of advice a manager can learn

Memorize it and quote it to others.

“Do what you can, with what you have, from where you are.”
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Leadership skills - How to know what to believe

There are so many conflicting opinions about every issue how can you know what to believe?

• How do you know what is true?
• How do you know what is false? Read More

May I recommend an author to you?

Go onto the web and find James Allen: and his small book “As a man thinketh”.

It is a free e-book because the copywrite has expired.

I have paraphrased some of James Allen’s work below.
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Trust is a vital element in the relationships within a team.
Trust is an emotion.
You trust other people to the degree that you believe they will do all that they say they will do.

And
You trust other people to the degree you believe they will NOT do what they promise they won’t do.

How can we develop this vital element in our character? Read More

Each year has four seasons - Spring, summer, autumn, and winter (It is in the winter that we have most trouble.)

Each work project has the same four seasons. Spring, summer, autumn and winter. We sometimes find ourselves in a “winter of discontent”.

Thios article discusses how to ride out the storm of a recession. Read More