Seven Tips For Effective Goal Setting
These goal-setting tips are based on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to help make your goals more lively, fun, and effective!
5 Excuses For A Lack Of Business Vision
A successful business vision is the ultimate carrot to steer your life’s work by. It should be aspirational and inspiring. Are you inspired by your business’ current vision? Do you get a 'wow!' feeling from it? Does it bring tears to your eyes?!
How To Set SMART Goals
So many people still ask me what the secret to successful goal setting is, so I thought I’d share with you one of the basic principles of goal setting.
5 Mistakes To Avoid When Creating A Vision For Your Company
Set a clear and achievable vision for your company by avoiding these 5 mistakes.
Cascading A New Vision: Three Steps For Real Commitment
This article focuses on the challenge of cascading a vision in a meaningful way throughout organisations. Vision is the desired future state of the organisation, communicated in a way that creates a persistent and vivid image that channels organisational resources and energy.
Time For Re-Alignment?
It is never too early or late to kick-start and re-align the direction of your team to achieve the results that you deserve. Use this approach to discover how you can enjoy consistent improvement over the long-term future.
The Second Key To A Remarkable Workplace - Principles
Living these unchanging principles in ever-changing ways is one of five keys essential to unlocking the door to your remarkable workplace.
The First Key To A Remarkable Workplace - Purpose
Having a purpose is important. If you don't have one, then people make assumptions as to what is important and focus on that.
Value-stifling Bureaucracy
With every project, there are two broad focuses: value creation and project administration. Many businesses often sacrifice significant value creation in preference of placating the internal process auditor!
Business Turnaround And Renewal
Here’s the punch line: think of corporate renewal as proactive business turnaround.
Successful Organisational Leadership
Effective execution through strategic alignment.
The Company: Living Entity Or Machine?
How you treat it determines its performance.
Creating Value Based On Our Values
Many organisations have a list of values, often highlighted in fancy frames on foyer walls. It seems only a small percentage of workplaces have shared definitions of their values and even less have determined the behaviours that can be measured in order to ensure the day to day living of values.
Corporate Ethics, Corporate Culture and Corporate Image - Today’s Key Managerial Issues
Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and HIH Insurance executives in jail. These are the headlines and the key business stories of today. Aggressive accounting procedures. Corporate governance. Business honesty. Corporate reputations being destroyed. Share prices dropping at the first hint of any financial shenanigans. These are the topics that keep Board Directors awake at night. And they all relate to one critical management subject - the Corporate Image.
Using Balanced Scorecard KPIs To Achieve Your Business Vision
Many businesses use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and many managers agree that KPIs are an important element of sound management practice. But how do you choose and implement KPIs in a way that will take your business where you want it to go?
Motivation Through Mission Statements
Mission statements have had a bad press in recent years. They should be exciting, visionary and meaningful. They should motivate your staff.
A Remarkable Workplace Begins With Unlearning
The primary focus of many businesses is shareholder wealth. The drivers of this (I don’t believe they deserve to be called leaders) fail to understand, or perhaps choose to ignore the fact that, shareholder wealth is one of many possible outcomes of good business practice, not a reason for being in business.
Business Literacy And Project Management
No matter how much desire you have for change and innovation, if you don't develop the capacity of people's business literacy and project management, you will be spinning your wheels.
Goal Setting
Setting goals, while relatively simple, must be done correctly to ensure success. If you desire success you must commit to learning the correct techniques that will guarantee achievement. While it is impractical to attempt thorough explanations here, following are some starting points.
Emebedding Ethics Into Your Strategic Plan
Strategic planning is a powerful tool to provide a focus for the few key things that an organisation must do in the next few years. Strategic planning must also be able to add value to the activities of that organisation.
The Greatest Or Weakest Link In Business
The management of most organisations is driven mostly by ‘budget considerations’ and, to a far lesser extent, by ‘business practices’. However, although these issues should be reversed in terms of importance, there is something far more powerful than both and it is rarely discussed.
Win Respect, Earn Loyalty
Loyalty, like respect, can’t be bought. It is earnt.
Turning A Vision Into Reality
True leaders are visionaries. Leaders provide direction and bring about change. Leaders not only directly affect financial markets and the fortunes of other stakeholders but also the careers of their people.
Vision Statements Reveal Management Weakness, Not Strength
Aside from creating amusement and occasionally disdain amongst staff, what earthly use are vision statements to any business?
The Purpose Of Vision
We constantly hear people tell us that the concept of Vision has failed. It doesn’t do what most businesses were expecting of it. Time after time, we have CEOs and Executives who lament that they are "just not getting 'buy-in' to the Vision".
Four Vital Ways To Activate Your Corporate Vision
"All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision or purpose." - Brian Tracy