It’s that time again. New Years resolutions will have been made and many organisations will have entered month 1 of their new budget year with all the targets and budgets beautifully set out for 2024. The sensible ones will have measurable goals, maybe even using the SMART method and everyone…
One of the advantages of being of “more mature” years is that you have already seen many things. Desktop computers, personal computers, spreadsheets, the internet and all manner of things have made their appearances during my lifetime. Long before my time during the Industrial Revolution we had the steam engine,…
We’ve all been there. The “new broom” wants to “sweep clean” and reorganise. Next thing you know we are into a reorganisation. How often do you here people say this is the [Insert Number In The Gap] reorganisation this year and nothing has improved? Politicians love reorganisations and, be afraid,…
Last year 2020/21 359,115 students graduated from UK Universities of whom 46% were awarded a 2:1. According to a report by Trading Economics, World Bank figures show the percentage of the UK labour force who had undertaken some form of advanced education was 84.51% and yet in November 2022 a…
For most of my working life I have worked with Small & Medium-sized Enterprises and occasionally large companies and I can tell you they are very different. Not just in the obvious way in that one is bigger than the other but in almost every way. What so many people…
The problem with trying to improve things is that you need to be able to measure them. That’s one of the reasons people love productivity and efficiency so much – they are generally easy to measure, but effectiveness – that’s a different matter. You need to know what’s your effectiveness…
One of the biggest reasons people suffer things like burn out is that they are far too busy and yet seem to achieve very little and this is often because they are trying to work on too many things at the same time. So, how many projects can you effectively…
Everyone wants a quick fix and we have looked at the fact the effectiveness is something that happens over time but here are 3 ways to become more effective today: Schedule Meetings With Yourself. When you are in a meeting you have a valid reason not to check emails or…
We all know the problem with time management is that the amount of time we have available in any one day, week or year is fixed. We also know that very few, if any people on their death bed say “I wish I had made more productive or efficient use…
It’s easy to say things, much more difficult to do them. Increasingly we have the ability to comment on the words of others. If you have time to waste have a look at the Twitter accounts of any politician followed by a mass of comments. Some valid, some not so.…