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Time to Read – 100 Seconds Time to listen – 144 seconds What’s your Ipad button? For me, the most fantastic thing about the Ipad is not its screen, or its versatility, or even its apps. It’s that single button. It is now the stuff of legend that Steve Jobs insisted on just one button…… Continue Reading
REINVENT your organisation. Replace change programmes with choice programmes. This week, ask three people in your company to come up with up to three specific ideas each that would transform the company. Ensure a culture where imaginations and innovations thrive. Make a difference. Do it now.… Continue Reading
HOW to win friends and influence people? Easy. Prepare your case. In business, you need to think through what should be done, why it is needed and also think how people might react. Only then can you decide how to make your case. What is the proposal, the benefit, the cost? Why should change occur…… Continue Reading
YOUR customers are why you exist. Without them, you have no business, or organisation. They must be top of your priorities, in the eyes, minds and actions of all of your people. Your number one aim is to attract, retain and delight your customers. (Extract from The Naked Coach)… Continue Reading
Time to Read – Don’t – do something more useful, instead Who would you rather be…? Someone with a reputation for knowing a lot, or for doing a lot? Which would you rather have…? In your organisation – someone with a head full of knowledge, who does nothing with it, or someone who applies what…… Continue Reading
INSIDE your team, debate, discuss and decide – then go forward with one voice. Providing everyone has had a chance to have their say, and been genuinely listened to, they will go forward with you. ‘One team – one vision’. This does not mean you are ‘against’ other teams (we can all be in more…… Continue Reading
BANK of Dave – Bank on Dave – Burnley Savings and Loans. They are now titles that for many are as familiar to people as their own faces when they look in a mirror. In fact anybody who has not heard of mini-bus salesman David Fishwick and his one-man quest to transform the banking industry…… Continue Reading
WHERE you need to reprimand an individual or group, remember that old adage, ‘praise before criticism.’ Otherwise you will create a wall and your thoughts will not be heard. This should apply to the way you deal with others, as well as yourself. Always use the positivity of your situation as a guide. Then bring…… Continue Reading
LISTEN with the same enthusiasm with which you speak. That way, you will listen properly, rather than being full of your own dialogue, which originates in your mind, and not blocking out the potential for effective communication with others. Communicating one way in a series of statements, of our condition or thoughts, means you may…… Continue Reading
Time to Read – Until you do something about them There are “Leaders” and there are “Followers” and then there are… “Wallowers” A brilliant word thought up by Jon Kidd, our NL Sigma specialist. Leadership is behaviour, not a position – we can all behave as leaders, and when others do, we follow. And then…… Continue Reading