Building Your Business Case
In life, if you want something you ask for it. In business, you write a Business Case. A Business Case is document that identifies a need or an issue, reviews possible options to resolve that issue and...
View ArticleKick-Ass Interview Tips
Preparing to give a kick-ass interview starts long before the actual discussion with your prospective employer. I don’t want this blog to go through the usual and obvious steps – I want to dig a bit...
View ArticleEfficiency in Business
All businesses aim to be as efficient as possible. There are many ways to develop and improve on efficiency; having a robust process, (that everyone knows and follows), effective communication (so...
View ArticleManaging Stress and Time
I know first hand how stress can affect a person. We all have our tells – ones that let us know we know that we are in fact too stressed – perhaps it’s that you cannot sleep, or you wake at night with...
View Article11 Tips for Giving Effective Feedback
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That is how we improve.” – Bill Gates. Nearly everyone at some point has given and received feedback, whether or not it was appreciated is another...
View ArticleLonger or shorter term jobs?
I was recently asked by someone starting out whether it was better to have one long job of say around 7 years or multiple jobs around 2-3 years. It was a question I wondered too when starting out and...
View ArticleMillennials – watch the (generational) Comms gap!
Technically I am ‘young’ enough to fall into the Millennial bracket – but only just! Which makes it mildly amusing to have been party to discussions amongst Senior Managers about “those Millennials”...
View ArticleProfit and Loss (P&L)
In this month’s blog we will look at how businesses’ track their finances. Businesses utilise tools and systems to track their financial situation, in part because they are accountable to their...
View ArticleThe Human ‘Resource’
Now I am not really talking about Human Resources here – not the function of it anyway. But the “Human” aspect which I see more and more being lost. We are moving away from humans being a critical...
View ArticleRage-Quitting
Forty-eight hours ago, I made a somewhat spontaneous decision to stop working for my current employers. The decision was triggered by a steady stream of shit from on high culminating in a copy-paste...
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