Competitive edge used to be because you had better machines that worked faster, then it was because you had more money to spend on advertising but now the global, competitive marketplace is very different.
This is the third blog in which we have chatted about creating a following. In this short blog we share our thoughts [...]
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The push and pull of creating a following
A little trust goes a long way
Our clients often tell us about the behaviours they want to see in their people – whether these relate to the way they serve customers, the way they manage or they way they approach work in general. While it’s relatively straight forward to describe behaviours, encouraging the right one’s is another matter – a fact [...]
Simplicity rules ok
In today’s information rich world, where you can find out absolutely anything at the touch of a button and be communicating simultaneously to three different people (or in practice, many more), business needs to find a simpler way of connecting with their staff and customers. So this year we are becoming the champion for keeping [...]
Scientific Proof that Internal Motivators work better than External Motivators
A few weeks ago I blogged about Internal Motivation and how it creates World Class Customer Service (read the post).
This has been one of our most commented on threads and its been great to see the development of the topic.
I was then sent a link to a video of Dan Pink speaking about the [...]
What can you learn from a Business Safari?
Last week I was on holiday in the beautiful New Forest (Would recommend the Beaulieu hotel to anybody wanting a forest retreat, chill out and scrummy food!) and on Tuesday my hubby and I visited Longleat – the safari park featured on the BBC programme Animal Park.
What a great day we had – the [...]
Plan, plan and plan again!
Plan, plan and plan again.
With all this talk about the credit crunch, with some banks making money and some banks still losing money, house prices up, house prices down it got me thinking about the need to continuously plan, do and review.
Both at home and at work the need to keep doing this [...]
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Why do staff just Grin and Bear it!!
In the recent CIPD survey it’s reported that job satisfaction amongst employees has gone up significantly since the last survey three years ago. But before you get too excited the survey also concludes that this may be due to people feeling lucky to have job rather than genuine satisfaction with their organisation.
People may feel less [...]
Take time to learn each day
We’ve all been actively involved in Learning at Work Day which has been hugely rewarding and lots of fun. And it’s left me wondering …’If we need to have a LAW day does that mean that many of us don’t think about how much we are learning every day?’
Learning comes in many forms and so [...]
Test Your Brain
See how alert, awake and connected your brain is…
This simple test is challenging your right/left brain processing.
Read the instructions and have a go.
Can you get 100%?
Why not try a little brain gym (clasp your hands together, point your forefingers in front of you, and draw an imaginary figure of eight with [...]
