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...
Treat Your Employees Like Dogs
How many times do you get interrupted by your employee’s each day? If your answer is to many times, it is time for you to start treating your employee’s like dogs. You see, when we have a dog, we don’t put up with them being uncontrollable and miss behaved, we put a...
Ultimate Time Management Program For Business Owners – Release
Would you love to get twice as much done each day and have time left over to enjoy doing the things you love to do? At The Time Retriever, we have just released the most comprehensive online self paced time management coaching program available today. The “Ultimate...
Ultimate Time Management Program For Childcare Centre Owners & Directors – Release
Would you love to get twice as much done each day and have time left over to enjoy doing the things you love to do? At The Time Retriever, we have just released the most comprehensive online self paced time management coaching program available today. The “Ultimate...
Inspect What You Expect!
Getting great results from your team, only happens when the members of your team are fully skilled in the activities of their roles. Over a number of years, one of the managers I respected the most, kept reminding me of one very important step in managing/leading...