This Disease Could Kill Your Business

The most damaging disease in your business is caused by a very virulent organism called Commincato Lacktorium. This organism enters the host by way of a carrier, generally a co-worker and often a superior. The disease tends to spread laterally and down through an organization killing morale, (read on...)

The World’s Greatest Business Tool Revealed

Metrics that matter… the continuous improvement cycle Amazon stocks some 11,000 titles in the category “Small Business Management”, and although I can’t profess to have read them all, I am reasonably sure that very few will give you this simple bit of (read on...)

Improve Your Business With Small Changes

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step” Lao Tzu Sometimes business owners can mistakenly fall into a trap by believing that when business gets challenging, you need to make drastic changes to improve, grow and ‘right the ship’. I just completed a book (read on...)

Four Ways To Business Improvement

There is always a room for improvement and this rule applies in your business as well. Every success that your company achieves will only result to more goals and objectives to take to be able to surpass the current well-being of the company. This includes, increasing the profits, reducing the (read on...)

In Management, Once Is Not Enough

When it comes to effective management, once is not enough! Are you falling into the trap of telling your people only once and assuming that they will then diligently get on with your request? In the modern workplace we are all inundated with hundreds of demands from clients and customers as well (read on...)

5 Tweaks to Energize Your Business Improvement and Growth

Are you going through the same old motions that worked in the past with fewer results today? Have you run out of good ideas? Are your competitors taking business away from you? If so, what you might need to do is make a few tweaks to energize your business improvement and growth. It doesn’t (read on...)

If You Can’t Sell More Guns, Sell More Bullets

When clients ask how to free up cash in their business, I like to tell the story of Byron the guns and collectibles dealer. He lives for his business because it gives him the chance to make a living out of doing what he enjoys most: collecting. He was struggling 12 months ago because he was out (read on...)

Six Sigma – How Balanced Scorecard Links To Business Performance

By following the Six Sigma/Balanced Scorecard approach, management can see how process improvements are integrated with and closely aligned to the performance of strategic objectives. This is the focus of Six Sigma and balanced scorecard. This is a way to strive for the successes and repair the (read on...)

What Is the One Change That Will Make the Most Difference to Your Business?

In September many business owners review their businesses with fresh eyes and consider whether any changes are required. This is usually as a result of taking a break during the summer and having time to think about what is actually happening in your business. Also often you try to make too many (read on...)

Getting the Most Bang For Training Bucks

When organizations spend real dollars on training events they deserve to get as much from them as possible. In too many cases, everyone in the organization, from staff to leaders, assumes that the training event will impart great skills and that the training participants will go back to their (read on...)