Wellbeing – productivity part 3
I think that it is fair to say that many of us have experienced a conversation where the person talking used acronyms and in house company language to tell a story or explain something. Perhaps like me you wondered at times what they were talking about and had to...
Wellbeing – productivity – part 2
I covered in Wellbeing, Productivity - Part 1 the fact that we are all carrying ‘weapons of mass distraction’ aka our phones around with us and as management we must be cognisent of the impact that is having on the individual, the workplace and productivity. There...
Wellbeing – productivity – part 1
We are all walking around carrying weapons of mass distraction on our person, namely the smartphone. For those born at the beginning of the century it is part and parcel of everyday life and the thought of not having access to it continuously would not even be...
Resilience – Cyber attack
According to a survey carried out by McAfee, the cyber security firm, the cost of cyber attacks will exceed $1 trillion for the first time partially brought on by more people working from home. Even more worrying is that only 44% of respondents to the survey have...
Resilience – reputational damage
Reputational damage often results from a gap between what a company says and what it is perceived to have done. One of the most important aspects of our business success is our reputation which takes a lot of time and/or money to build. If we think of the...
Productivity – emails
How much is email costing your organisation every year, well according to a report from the International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management it is between €5k and €10k per annum. Based on a survey of company email use revealed typically that almost 20%...
3 questions to ask yourself about technology
I arrived home one day to see the new 55 inch flat screen TV with a child's fingermarks all over the screen. Strange I thought as I started to clean it but then all became clear. My daughter and her 3 year old son were visiting and I watched as he went over to the...
3 simple ways to free up your time
As we approach the end of the end of 2021 there is still a lot of uncertainty out there. When will lockdown finally ease and what will the new landscape look like? It will be interesting as you review your Strategic Plan how well you have predicted the year so far...
Strategic Plan checklist and planner
We are forever hearing about the importance of Strategic Planning but from experience most business owners don't have the time to get involved and even if they could make the time they would struggle with finding the right place to start. How do I know, I was one...
Opportunities are all around you
Let me ask you a question, how many people know what you do? Typically the answer I will get is that everyone knows and yet the evidence proves that to be incorrect. The evidence I am talking about is the amount of referrals you get on a regular basis from people...