Many businesses waste a lot of time and energy when they make their projects too complicated. While this may be done with good intentions, the complexity doesn't produce better results. [...]
If you don’t know how to focus your team, then business growth and development will likely stall. It’s not that your employees are bad. But they may be spending too [...]
While you will encounter negative comments in your work life, are you paying too much attention to them? Sometimes, we magnify one remark and give it more authority than it [...]
When you’re looking for problems, you may discover things you don’t like. That’s the downside and it’s not fun realizing you may need to work on improving. The advantage to [...]
Many successful organizations struggle with how to train employees when things are busy. These businesses have well defined processes and procedures but time may be in short supply. The longer [...]
Every member of a team has special skills. These aren’t necessarily things that appear in your title or job description. But they are talents you use on a daily basis. [...]
Repetitive coworker interruptions can eat up a lot of your productive time. These are often requests to help a colleague with something. The tasks are not complex but they are [...]
If you want to improve customer service, then you should seek out some outside inspiration. Go into the marketplace and see how other industries handle interactions with the public. Recently [...]
Personal productivity challenges do not exist in a vacuum, which is what I’ve learned from performing my People Are Not Balloons demonstration. It’s a part of my presentations, where I [...]
When your team at work becomes stagnant, it's smart to seek out some productivity boosting ideas. Recently, I was a part of a huge plastics industry trade. While I don't [...]
