Business Leadership and People Management

Here is Jana Matthews from Boulder Quantum Ventures advice on the 5 steps of delegation; Level 1 – The Report: This first step puts the information gathering in the hands of the employee, [...]

Andrew Carnegie once said, “The secret of success is not in doing your own work but in recognizing the right man to do it.”  Rupert Murdoch would probably agree. Gaining Committed and [...]

New Australian workplace laws have broadened the definition of “coercion and misrepresentation” and lowered the tests by which it may be established that an employer coerced or [...]

One of my corporate clients was recently looking for some teambuilding material and asked if I had “The Geese Lessons” (he’d seen a training film years ago that drew corporate [...]

If we ask 10 business owners or managers to name their three top challenges, eight of them will come back with something along the lines of: I’ve got not time – I’m working like a dog! I can’t [...]

I’ll give you the short version here.  For the long version, just email me for the 13 Staff Development Strategies. 1. Build Better Specs Always start with what you want to end up with!  List the [...]

The military has had plenty of time to reflect on leadership and, in the interests of building effective armies, how to engender it in the widest range of individuals, so here’s a military view [...]

14. Balance cash in the middle of the day.  Occasionally balance every till and cash holder in the place in the middle of the day, rather than at the end of it.  The break in routine demonstrates [...]

7. Don’t make it easy.  Ensure that you have simple rules in place about how stock and other valuables (including stationery, equipment and consumables) are to be handled, and where they are not [...]

3. Create water-tight security systems.  It is the employer’s responsibility to create systems that isolate and assign accountability so that the weak are not tempted and the guilty can be [...]