This blog will help you if you at times find it hard to say ‘no’ to people when you really need to say ‘no’. After reading this blog, you’ll be freer to work smarter; as you’ll know the real value of saying ‘no’ and the impact it can make to your daily working practices. In […]
Consider this: You are rowing a boat and you keep being given more and more to carry. Now what are you going to do if you want to stay afloat? We can look at this from the following vantage points: 1. The person rowing the boat, 2. The person loading the boat, 3. The load […]
The Health and Safety Executive defines stress as: ‘the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demands placed upon them’. As pressure from the current climate grows, we can expect stress in the workplace to grow. In real terms, this means people suffering more, and in business terms, this means lower […]
‘Work Smart- Your Time is of the Essence’. Is that the time already? Ever find yourself thinking this? Ever not? No, it’s a fact- we all have exactly the same amount of available time- just the 24 hours per day- in which to do EVERYTHING. So it’s then about how we make clever use of […]
‘Stress’ continues to be a commonly used buzz word. Work related stress is something most of us can relate to. In the current climate it is even more apt; as people are facing redundancies and staffing levels are being reduced, it is leaving many workers under growing pressures to perform ad reach impossible targets.
For those of us that run our own businesses, it’s quite a natural part of the process that you feel down at times and at other times, up. This is the case for life and work. The ongoing recession we are in doesn’t help either. It can be frustrating wondering where and when the next […]
…is that we believe them. We treat them as if they are written in stone and are real; rather than a thought that we can choose to change!