Collaboration
Ever driven somewhere only to arrive and realise you don’t actually remember HOW you got there? I don’t mean how, you actually got there, you know that you drove there, but you have no conscious memory of the drive. It’s almost like you travelled on “auto pilot”. A common route you take turning each corner and arriving at your destination unconsciously. So every year, I go to the United States to attend a professional speakers conference. A few years ago it was in Orlando the Walt Disneyworld Resort. Going there was exciting, but I wanted to share with you something …
Plan B, C, D & E
On the odd occasion when I present at conferences or events something goes wrong. On this occasion we’d tested everything, the audio and the data projector prior to me presenting and everything was working fine. There was a break before I started and I took the opportunity to check everything again….glad I did because the data projector had gone all blurry. My first thought was the focus had been knocked, so I checked that, no everything was OK. We restarted my computer and the data projector but still blurry. With 5 minutes before we were due to start, I ran …
Sharing is Caring
According to an article by fortune.com, This Is the Top Reason People Quit Their Jobs—It’s Not Money, executive job board Ladders found in a survey of 16,500 members that the two most cited reasons for people leaving a role were boredom and long hours. Boredom doesn’t just happen. It progresses over time through long hours resulting in frustration and staff “switching off” because they’ve had it. When I work with executives and their teams, one of the most common things clients say is, “we used to have someone who did that, but they left.” Sometimes it isn’t until a team …
Is Your Workplace Stressed
Whilst delivering the last of several inhouse workshops for state sales teams of a national organisation on managing email and Microsoft Outlook, I asked when they thought it was acceptable to STOP responding to emails each day. Not surprisingly it triggered discussion but the response of one of the manager’s surprised me. The manager jokingly [sic] said “If it is one of mine, I expect them to answer straight away.” Whilst I assumed it was a joke as a murmur of chuckles resonated through the group, I realised he was half serious! Whilst today we have 24/7 connectivity, it doesn’t …
