https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwpGZ0pPMHU Watch the fifteen minute overview here. If you are a Managing Director or business owner in manufacturing, engineering, or a trade-based SME, and your business is feeling stuck, stressed or stagnant — you're not alone. There is a lot of it about at the moment. The good...
[caption id="attachment_2539" align="alignleft" width="300"] Vaccination Vs natural immunity[/caption] It is very welcome that recent studies now emphasize the role of natural immunity in keeping us well during the pandemic. It is clearer that the natural immunity of former COVID sufferers is stronger and more comprehensive against...
This article, published in Management Today, provides a checklist of six powerful emotional needs. When met, needs reduce stress and stimulate motivation and engagement As though businesses have not got enough to cope with, Covid-19 related stress risks hampering business recovery. While many employees have felt...
Below is a section-by-section summary of my on-line 'Become a mental health first aider' course. Hopefully it will give you a good idea as to the depth and thoroughness of the first aid training. The objective is to help you provide early intervention when someone...
Bounce back planning in the current crisis Never has clear planning been more vital in peacetime. Below are six key success factors to help you plan your bounce back. Preparing, equipping, training and supporting your workforce for the changes required to bounce back to profit needs careful...
Are you in your rational mind at work all the time? OK, I don't want to be rude to my reader, so let's assume you are. But what about the other people around you; are they? To read most management textbooks and articles, you would...
Do you ever commit this type of CRIME? Why is stressed decision-making a crime? To put it succinctly, when we are stressed we are emotionally charged. That means that our higher faculties are overwhelmed by the brain’s instinctive survival mechanism. Under these circumstances our every impulse...
Using science to liberate the human spirit. There is a simple and powerful way to transform productivity, employee engagement and overall performance. And that is to create the stress free organisation. In 'Reinventing management thinking' Jeremy Old takes a robust approach with organisational performance. He drills down...
The statistics are mounting up - Stress damages your organisation. One in two workers claim to suffer stress and anxiety at work, according to the mental health charity Mind. Government figures show that nearly a million people are claiming sickness benefit due to stress related problems....
[caption id="attachment_779" align="alignright" width="544"] Hoshin Kanri can deliver dramatic growth in business sale price[/caption] Most owners undersell their businesses Many owners we meet actually undersell their business because they had not thought far enough ahead before wanting to sell it. Partly this oversight is due to owners being...