Managing Purpose & Priorities with Richard Maybury
The economy may or may not recover this year. The Drachma may or may not maintain parity with the Deutschmark. The USA may or may not say ‘Yes’ to Obama.
One thing is certain though:
Our personal, commercial and future prospects this year will be influenced more by what goes on in the 7 inches between our left and right ears than what goes on in the outside world. winning easier in 2012
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Because a number of business friends have asked me about how I use Twitter for business I promised to write these few notes here.
I use Twitter as a business tool. I’m also ‘social’ on it BUT I choose not to use it as a social-chat tool. My usage is 80% business 20% social business chat. How I tame the Twitter tsunami
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Technology always promises to make us more productive. So how come small business owners still feel under the cosh and are still working long hours?
Like the 1950s promise of a housekeeping robot, is IT productivity all just hype? Or is it us humans who need a little upgrade?
There’s no doubt that technology is continuing to revolutionise the workplace. And we all have to work smarter because we can’t work much harder. How does this productivity push play out in small businesses though? Especially when they are not accessing the infrastructure and support that bigger organisations have at their fingertips? How SME can improve productivity
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Another good conversation at the People Forum today touching on aspects of Leadership, Risk Management, General Management HR and Learning and Development and Recruitment of talent. Once all the committed resources from the meeting have been given to me I will write-up a brief overview with appropriate links.
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If you want to give proper priority to, and build management and control around, your resolutions for 2012 you will stand a better chance of achieving them when you state them as positive actions. Don’t think of the White Bear
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I just got a lovely ‘Thank You’ email from an executive client who I supported in restructuring his strategic thinking and getting a grip on his strategic priorities.
Like many business leaders he was taking too much on his own shoulders and driving expectations of himself that he would not be allowed to drive through his people. What he was doing was unsustainable – and he knew it. Hence my engagement with him.
He reminded me of Christopher Logue’s wonderful 8 line poem ‘Come To The Edge’ which I mentioned to him earlier. It was a bitter-sweet email because earlier this month – on 2 December 2011 – Christopher Logue died, aged 85. Here is his poem – one of my favourites …. Come to the Edge
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I really enjoy running the IoD People Forum for Surrey and am looking forward to our 2012 season.
The Forum has been developed and designed to be particularly helpful for business Owners, Directors and Managers who have direct employee responsibility, to human resource and learning & development practitioners, to employment lawyers and anyone else who is responsible for the ‘people side’ of the business.
our Top Priority is sharing ideas and energy on any and all aspects of finding, recruiting, employing, developing, leading and exiting people in these interesting times.
Conversation is critical to the ethos of the Forum and, right from the start, I was keen to embed 3 principles:
Topics for conversation and resultant committed outputs are determined on the day. Our priority is the practicalities of people management and business decisions.
We meet every 2 months on the first Friday of the month, kicking of the year with our 6th January meeting in Guildford. The meeting runs from 0715 to 0859.
So if you would welcome an early morning coffee in Guildford with like minded individuals any First Friday just let me know, and I can arrange for you to attend. The Forum is usually only open to IoD members but we do invite guests who are interested in pursuing IoD membership as part of their personal development and business networking strategy.
If you want to find out more please feel free to call me on 01428 607763 or hit the Contact me form
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I have said it many times before - and in the light of current news from various organisations, including Atos , who has already reduced the number of internal emails by 20 percent in six months, as well as recent experiences direct from some of my clients – it needs to be said again.
Most businesses need to review and change their current use of internal emails to manage workflows, workloads and the competing priorities their people are asked to manage on a daily basis.
Here are 3 reasons why internal email can be a costly drain on team and individual productivity within any business: Why internal emails can damage teamwork and productivity
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You and I will have no choice but to develop ourselves more effectively and work much smarter on our core purposes and priorities in 2012. That’s a no-brainer.
You will have a choice, however, in how you go about that critical, future-proofing work. That can be a killer – especially when you are already working at – or close to – maximum capacity, and probably putting in well over a standard shift….. Day in day out.
You will have many choices on how you will do this meaningful work within your already crowded schedule and the increasing demands that will be placed upon you next year. Here’s a simple split for you…. How to focus on your strengths in 2012
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As mentioned in my earlier post on driving Microsoft Office through a Mac , I am looking for good resources for Mac users who find themselves in Microsoft environments.
I have just come across this good overview from Paul Mew, Technical Director at ramsac . If you know of any other resources that you find useful please post them here.
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