Many people who make networking a priority in their overall marketing management question themselves from time to time. They question the time, effort, energy (physical and emotional) and money they invest in their networking and they question their own results from it. They wonder if it is just their own skills [...]
Today a client, who I count as a professional friend and generous advocate for my work, got in touch. He works at Associate Director level in a £150Million revenue specialist consultancy. He knows a thing or two about profit delivery within a multi-disciplinary business working very closely with clients and [...]
If good time tracking, recording and time management are a priority for you in your overall workload management approach, then you may be interested in this tool – especially if you use Microsoft Outlook. The fully featured free trial records exactly how you spend your time at your computer, which [...]
A very quick reflection on our management of our sales conversations, having just put the phone down on such an outbound call. I have learnt over the years that there is rarely a ‘Good time’ to talk about raising the priority of training (or anything else of value) with people. I [...]
I am reflecting on an excellent #IoDSurrey Branch meeting this morning on Scenario Planning and have just placed a high priority in my task management system on writing a post on this subject based on my initial brain dump and some of my training work with clients on Strategic Thinking and Strategic Planning. For [...]
Never choose fads over fundamentals. I have been engaged in some heavy techie talk recently around productivity, priority and performance issues. I’m no Luddite but I am slightly concerned. Sometimes fads, whether gadgets, gimmicks, apps or hacks – especially in the arena of productivity and performance can cloud simple truths. [...]
I have learnt that unless we make time for learning it never happens in a meaningful, capacity-building way. It is random, ad-hoc, unstructured, and therefore relatively unreliable. Truth is, most ‘On The Job Learning’ through daily ‘experience’ is not transformative. Most of us repeat patterns of thought and behaviour even [...]
Clearly this is not about a menu dilemma. It is, however, about dilemmas and difficulties, especially as we get more busy and pressure mounts. It seems, from many conversations recently that a lot of people are looking to tame their procrastination behaviour for 2011 …. and are looking to me to [...]
Well, how did you do in my friend’s family friendly Christmas quiz? My thanks again to Paul Hobbs. True to his word, he posted the answers to the quiz onto his blog on Christmas Eve. You can access the answers from his blog here: http://www.thethinkingconsultancy.com/blog.html or below. […]
My local IoD Branch in Surrey asks me to contribute a topical article in the members' newsletter. I thought the recent one, marking the UK National Stress Awareness Day on November 3rd, might be interesting. You can see a copy here. Richard Maybury IoD article Start Living, Stop Stressing
