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Defining productivity – what does productivity mean to you?
Defining productivity For as long as most of us can remember, there’s been a concerted push to improve the productivity of our organisations and the people within them. Governments of all persuasions have set in motion initiatives designed to stimulate economy activity, drive productivity and enhance national and organisational balance sheets. Private enterprise has up-sized,…
What Leads To Success?
PASSION I’m driven by my passion. I would pay someone to do what I do. If you do it for love the money comes along anyway WORK Have fun working. Nothing comes easily. GOOD Practice, practice, practice. The successful person is the average person focused. Get really good at something PUSH Push,…
Total Leader® Newsletter – Jan 15
Our latest newsletter is an available for download. this edition’s topics include: Taking a Closer Look at Problem Solving Becoming More Effective A Winner Never Gives Up Determine What Success Means to You Develop Your Plan for Achievement Bridging the Gap Between Potential and Performance Just click on the button below to download. [av_button label=’Click…
The F word in business: it feels so good, but is it harming your company?
We all use it (although we probably deny it); when it’s used on us, we enjoy it (although we probably deny it); it fills the atmosphere and ethos in organisations with dangerous complacency and not a few injuries, as the back-slapping becomes unbearable. Yes – flattery is part of everyday life in most organisations and…
Leadership lessons from Agincourt
I enjoy looking beyond the immediately obvious sources of business and management texts for lessons worth learning, and military history is possibly the best teacher of all. Last Friday was 25th October – St. Crispin’s day – and the anniversary of the famous battle of 1415, where English longbowmen punished the mistakes of the numerically…
What Makes a Great Leader?
Armies, governments, rock bands, sports teams – even knitting groups – all need leaders. So there should be no surprise that businesses that have no clear leader, or no effective leadership, suffer from more than simply poor performance. This would be the perfect spot for a dictionary definition of ‘leader’ or ‘leadership’. But instead, the…
The power of written goals
‘Write a goal down?! Pah – It’s all up here in my head…!’ Goal setting is a key component of any successful person or business. When this subject comes up there is usually a look of dismay on my clients’ face when I explain how important writing them down is, and I hear sentences such…
Shed Loads of Leadership
September update from Mark Tonks & LMI Welcome to latest edition of Shed Loads of Leadership. In this edition a little food for thought, a couple of upcoming events ideal for business networking alongside personal development, an interesting article on the impact of coffee on productivity, a couple of recommendations and of course something just…
Are Your Employees Firing On All Cylinders?
Restructuring If Bob Costello, VP & Chief Economist of the American Trucking Associations, is right, the recovery has started. This is good news and potentially not such good news. Recently a leader shared with us a challenge we might all be facing. He had cut his staff in reaction to reduced demand and when he…