HOW MUCH IS LOW STAFF ENGAGEMENT COSTING YOU?
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash As regular followers will testify, I’m on a crusade to highlight how engaging your staff is key to unlocking greater productivity and profitability in your business. In my previous series of…
TOP 5 LOCKDOWN CHALLENGES – Maintaining Fun & Energy
A 5 week series for business leaders needing to transform their business towards the “new norm” Challenge 5 – Maintaining Fun & Energy How do we keep team energy high and support teamwork when…
TOP 5 LOCKDOWN CHALLENGES – Effective Time Management
A 5 week series for business leaders needing to transform their business towards the “new norm” Challenge 4 – Effective Time Management I believe the secret to productivity, regardless of the current pressures of…
TOP 5 CHALLENGES – Fragmented Team Communication
A 5 week series for business leaders needing to transform their business towards your “new normal” Challenge 2 – Fragmented Team Communication Working from home can be lonely and lead to employees feeling isolated—even…
YOUR TOP 5 LOCKDOWN CHALLENGES & How to turn them into opportunities
A 5 week series for business leaders needing to transform your business towards the “new norm” As the world celebrated the 2020 new year, launching into a new decade, businesses globally have been sucked…
SIX LOCKDOWN SURVIVAL GUIDELINES FOR SME’s
In November of 1992, I was assigned to a productivity improvement programme for a small shoe manufacturer in Hungary. It was during the freezing winter months with snow drifts up to 10ft, in the…
Alluxi’s Leadership & Management Programme Achieves CMI Recognition
Training is perceived as an expensive luxury, and is often the first cost to be cut when cash flow gets tough The familiar phrase Training is a Necessity Not a Luxury may strike home…
THE GREAT BRITISH PRODUCTIVITY SWINDLE – 3 Painful Truths No 2. The Manager
In the first Painful Truth of this series, we highlighted the need for business owners to implement robust Management Control Systems and Key Performance Indicators, critical to measuring and optimising productivity. The Bank of…
LIVE TO WORK OR WORK TO LIVE? That is the Question
Have you spent your long weekend, or weekday evenings attached to your iPad, tablet or mobile. Do you know what’s important or how to prioritise? This is for all you business Owner Managers who…
20 WAYS TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE – Minimise Meetings
Productivity means higher output using your current resources, or achieving the same level of sales with less resource. Meetings are the beating heart of a functional management control system – but unless they’re managed properly,…
20 WAYS TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE – Control Overtime
Productivity means higher output using your current resources, or achieving the same level of sales with less resource. Poor planning often results in high levels of overtime. The use of overtime, whilst occasionally inevitable, is…
20 WAYS TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE – Improve Planning
Productivity means higher output using your current resources, or achieving the same level of sales with less resource. Planning is one of the fundamental elements of a good management system in any business. Planning has…