Keeping in touch with your team

Keeping in touch with your team

As your company grows, it becomes even more important (and more challenging) to keep the culture going and relationships between managers and their teams strong. In these difficult times, it becomes a key area of focus for leaders. Though one-on-one meetings with each...
The best advice I ever ignored

The best advice I ever ignored

Whether you ask for it or not, the people in your life are likely full of advice on various life and career situations. Sometimes these words of wisdom can be invaluable and help you reach new heights. Other times, they can turn you down the wrong path. When you...
WFH Policies That Work

WFH Policies That Work

Remote work is on the rise, and whether you’ve recently adopted some flexible work options or have an all-remote company, it’s important to have formal work policies just like you would with a more traditional office. However, managing an office versus a remote...
The ONE thing that can change everything

The ONE thing that can change everything

In our business life, as the financial year comes to an end, we prepare budgets and targets, set goals, have performance reviews and board meetings. The planning process for the year ahead begins in earnest. We know what the negotiations over budgets and targets look...
Coronavirus and working from home

Coronavirus and working from home

With the outbreak of Coronavirus, immediate adjustments needed to be made to how people travel, how they deal with a threat to their life and how they work. Very quickly we saw travel warnings enacted. Stay at home! Keep away from affected countries. But what about...
Time to ditch the new year’s resolutions

Time to ditch the new year’s resolutions

Did you know that January 17th is the official ‘Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day’?  That’s because, by this date, most people do actually ditch the resolutions they’ve made for the New Year. Research shows that by January 17th, our intentions, resolutions, goals,...
Some things are too urgent to be rushed

Some things are too urgent to be rushed

A while ago, I watched an interview with Peter Senge and right at the end, he said something that really made me pause For him, it may have been a bit of a throwaway line right at the end but for me, it was a highlight of the interview. Things are way too urgent to be...