Business Crisis Management
If you spend more of your time putting out fires than doing your work, you are managing by crisis. Management by crisis is a phrase used to describe the common problem of allowing unexpected events, interruptions, problems, or emergencies to dictate your priorities...
Don’t Stuff Up The Interview
Interviewers, Don’t Stuff Up The Interview! In childcare and business today, recruiting new team members can be quite a challenge. There are several areas of recruiting that you need to ensure you are very well skilled in, to enable you, to employ good quality...
Why Do I Put Things Off To Later?
There's always a lot of reasons/excuses as to why people put things off to later. They will say self doubt, limiting beliefs, scared of failing, has to be perfect, anxiety. Some of these points might actually be hidden and we are not actually aware of why we...
Leave It To Me – TT
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Developing Yourself
Developing Yourself We all have something we are trying to achieve in the short or long term. The reality is, for us to achieve something new, we need to increase our knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve it, otherwise we would have already...
Boss – I Need To Talk To You About My Holidays Now
Boss, I Need To Talk About My Holidays Now! Have you had your team members come to you saying this? Do you notice it is mostly at an inappropriate time when you are in the middle of doing something else? As your business grows, the interruptions for holiday...
Traditional Time Management Courses Set You Up For Failure!
When I went from supervising 17 team members, to managing over 100 team members, my days fell apart. With all of the constant interruptions and distractions, stopping me from getting the things on my list done. I did a time management course, and I found that it...
Perfect Practice – Makes Perfect
Practice Makes Perfect! Is that right? I want to tell you a story in relation to practice makes perfect. When I was the national service manager for Remington in Papua New Guinea, my spare parts manager’s name was Gibson, he was a PNG National, whom had...
Don’t Keep It In Your Head
Don’t Keep It In Your Head! Have you ever been on your way home from work and all of a sudden, you slap your forehead and say, “I forgot to do that”? All the time I hear some say. Whenever you think of something you need to do, write it down. Don’t leave it up...
The Cluttered Desk
Do you have a neat and tidy desk? Or do you have an untidy messy desk? Which one is right? Which one is wrong? Whether either one is right or wrong, is irrelevant. It is whether the person who owns the desk is effective or in-effective at what they do....
A Fish Rots From The Head Down
This is an old proverb that the true source of where it came from is difficult to establish. But how does it relate to you and your organisation? Well in todays world, the saying “The Fish Rot’s From The Head Down” is used as an analogy for a business that is running...
What Is Your Hobby?
Do You find that your brain is constantly switched on to your business? When things aren’t going well, you are constantly thinking about what you can do to make it better. Even when businesses are going well, many owners still find themselves constantly thinking about...