The benefits of taking time away from the business with family or friends is well documented; no commute, no meetings, no emails, and no deadlines. You have time and lots of it to do the things you want to do,…
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Promotion should be a piece of (cake)PIE
Whether you’re making the appointment, seeking the appointment or in the early stages of succession planning for the appointment, there are 3 basic ingredients that you need in your recipe for success: Performance; Image and Exposure (PIE). The term PIE…
Tagged with: branding, self management, tips on
Posted in Career Management, People performance, Promotion
Posted in Career Management, People performance, Promotion
There’s still time to get online for Christmas.
“UK retailers are on course to dispatch a record 900 million orders in 2014, with 120 million orders predicted for December alone” (IMRG MetaPack Delivery Index) and if you and yours are anything like me and mine, that’s a lot…
Tagged with: Christmas, Content Marketing, customer engagement, know your customer, retail stores, SMEs, Social Media, STRATEGY, tips on
Posted in Data, Digital Marketing, Engagement, Marketing, Proposition, Retail, Social Media
Posted in Data, Digital Marketing, Engagement, Marketing, Proposition, Retail, Social Media
Managing Motivational Meetings
I could get far more work done, if I wasn’t wasting my time in so many boring meetings! We have all heard it said and some of us, if we’re honest, have thought it. It’s not impossible to manage motivational…
Tagged with: employee engagement, motivational meetings, Skills for business growth, tips on
Posted in Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, Managing Meetings, Skill Sets
Posted in Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, Managing Meetings, Skill Sets
Intimidated, Bamboozled or simply Seduced by the world of digital – Part 2: Social Media for the over 40’s.
Social Media is the new word of mouth, which means you are no longer able to control what is being said about your brand; but you can join the conversation, and use the insights to enhance your brand value. Every…
Tagged with: branding, Content Marketing, data, know your customer, marketing fundamentals, Social Media, tips on
Posted in Digital Marketing, Engagement, Proposition, Social Media
Posted in Digital Marketing, Engagement, Proposition, Social Media
Employee engagement shouldn’t begin and end with a Christmas drink
The essence of a good company is having good people; support your people and they will support you. How many times have you heard a Company Director say “our people are our most important asset” yet if they treated their…
Tagged with: culture, employee engagement, growth limitation, Skills for business growth, tips on
Posted in Company Culture
Posted in Company Culture
10 tips on how to stop internal email undermining team spirit and limiting business growth
email is a powerful business tool which can be just as damaging as it can be beneficial to a company organisation. In many companies there’s too much time spent IN the on screen detail and too little time spent ON…
Tagged with: culture, email, growth limitation, self management, Social Media, surveys, team building, tips on
Posted in Company Culture
Posted in Company Culture
