Ever had to fire someone? How did it go? Chances are, that if you are a manager you will have to fire someone during your career. Some employers never give the courtesy of a face to face discussion. Many managers, when faced with the challenge of firing someone, forget, or are unaware of the emotions...Read More

Improve your personal and business relationships by being aware of the unintended cues and signals your body language may be sending others.   Has it ever occurred to you how much you are saying to people even when you are not speaking? Unless you are a master of disguise, you are constantly sending messages about your...Read More

How do you know if you have what it takes to start a business? Whilst there’s no way to know for sure, a commonality can be found among the emotional and family fabric of people ready to consider an entrepreneurial venture. It takes an entrepreneurial fire in your belly to make it succeed. Not everyone...Read More

Operating a successful home-based business is a time-consuming endeavor. This is doubly true for work-at-home mums in that we are responsible not only for the success of our business, but for our family as well. We must be self-reliant, self-motivated, and discipline ourselves in order to attain success in both areas. When running a business...Read More

Procrastination is among the most crippling behavioural and psychological traits there is. Are you among those people blocked, stopped, or sidelined by this? Perhaps many people are in constant battle with trying to get solutions on how to stop procrastinating so that they can change their operation modes. Procrastinating is affecting everyone ranging from people...Read More

In order to completely eliminate bad time management habits and stop wasting precious time today, consider developing a routine that will help you avoid wasting time. Things that we feel like reacting to such as: phone calls, emails, news stories, text, etc. are known as urgent tasks. According to Brett McKay, “Important tasks contribute to...Read More

Here are 10 top tips on facilitating and managing a meeting. Whether it is a board meeting or team meeting, these 10 tips are excellent in ensuring your meeting is being led the right way and you deliver the outcome you planned. 1) Paraphrase what a participant has said so that he or she feels...Read More

Careers are getting bumpier. The speed of change in most organizations makes the traditional career pathways less obvious and sometimes blocked. Many people in employment have experienced tough times when, through organizational change, they have been side-lined, they’ve ended up with a boss they couldn’t work with, they’ve had their job reduced and possibly they’ve...Read More

Let’s make the assumption that we’re talking about something that is brand new to us. Now some of the comments below are going to apply to us if we move to a new job in our current organization but they will be mostly relevant to people going into something completely new and fresh. Arrange an...Read More

“Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you’re saying” Ralph Waldo Emerson Last time we talked about the skill of Listening and how having someone really listen to what you are saying can be a profound experience. We also talked about how most people are under the impression that communication...Read More