Here's an outline on how the support I provide will be continued during these unprecedented times. ‘Terms, conditions, specifications and SLAs, for me, are the baseline performance criteria, not the finish line to be stretched to.’ This, and 6 other important facts about how I approach my support to [...]
Successfully working from home on a continual basis as a result of the Coronavirus epidemic is a very different experience to occasionally working from home to 'get stuff done' as part of our flexible working policies. It will also be very different for home based filed workers who combine [...]
When it comes to the 'Define Purpose' or 'Decide Strategy' or 'Continuous Improvement' or 'Creative Thinking' elements of my #WP2P approach to total workload management, we often need to think outside the box in order to come up with a solution to a situation. The challenge is that we [...]
You are using Microsoft Outlook within Office 365 and you created a customised To-Do Bar in your Calendar and Inbox so that you can see your prioritised To-Dos and Tasks and all of a sudden from February 2019 your To-Do Bar says 'We didn't find anything to show here'. [...]
The other day I attended a Hubris Forum hosted by The Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey and facilitated by Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith. Some people suggest that we are at 'Peak Hubris' and that Hubris' time has come around again. Certainly the new millennium has presented us [...]
My friend Debra Levitt recently interviewed me for her podcast show: Bridging Gaps-The Business Podcast. She is good at this. She got me talking about things I don't usually share. Before I knew it, 80 minutes flew past and I shared a ton of stuff. She decided not to edit [...]
It’s happened 3 times now since last Friday – and that’s why I’m compelled to write this today. It cropped up in a business networking conversation about misattribution and within 2 client engagements this week focusing on ‘Engagement and collaboration’ and ‘Purposeful Productivity’. It is about putting leadership focus [...]
Recently I was a speaker, representing myself and the Institute of Directors, on a panel at the opening session of the #WeAreSurrey2018 conference with Surrey County Council. The theme of the session was ‘Is social value good for business?’. The clear consensus was that #Socialvalue is indeed good for [...]
‘We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can’ On the 5th September 2003 the American illusionist, David Blaine, stepped into a Perspex box, to be suspended from [...]
Microsoft Outlook turned 21 on 16th November 2017. Birthdays and anniversaries are a good time to reflect on the past, rejoice in the present and re-appraise the future. Perhaps now would be a good time to look again at how you are managing yourself, your workload and the results you [...]
