Get More Done – Interrupt Your Interruptions
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
If one of your employees is injured or falls ill, it’s important that you support them in any way that you can. That means being flexible with them and giving them the time that they need to recover. When they are eventually ready to return to work, the transition can be very difficult, especially if…
Modern business is inseparable from technology. Even the most traditional ‘offline’ industries need staff with digital skills, while traditionally ‘online’ industries need to be more on the ball than ever when it comes to technology. Therefore, if your business isn’t tech-savvy, you’ll find it difficult to grow and succeed in today’s climate. Here are some…
Do you own your own business? Are you constantly looking for ways to expand your customer base and grow your profits? If so, there’s no doubt you have employed all kinds of techniques in order to achieve these goals, but for many, marketing ends up being the most important factor. Effective marketing is essential for…
Image source According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), small businesses account for 99.9 percent of the business population in the USA. They are also the main drivers behind economic growth in the economy. For any small business, a natural progression is to think about expanding its business. In fact, a recent report by Guidant…
Pexels – CC0 License There’s nothing more important than safety. You can be the most profitable business in the world, but it means nothing if along the way you have injured or harmed emploees, families, and customers that you could have prevented from encountering that ill. For this reason, it’s very important to continually assess,…
Unsplash – CC0 License We think that making things sustainable is challenging in business. Thanks to the legacy of the 20th century, entrepreneurs see it as a kind of optional extra – the cherry on top. But it turns out that modern technology is actually making the creation of sustainable businesses much easier than…
It is a common refrain across every industry and every size organization today. In addition to, “I am having trouble finding the right people or any people in some cases! And once we get them, keeping them is harder than ever.” There are a lot of innovative ways to address the shrinking labor pool and…
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
And we can create whole new pathways, new structures and frameworks constantly. This neuroplasticity requires the crucial ingredients of time and intention. Typically in unexpected change, we go through various phases including: Shock | a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience | “What is this?” Denial | looking for evidence it is not…
Source The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace, and so should your company. In order to remain competitive, you need to keep pace by hiring writers that will spek the language of your consumers. By investing in bilingual employees who are able to speak and understand the changing trends you are enabling your content…
Want your organization to win in 2022? Start by practicing these winning habits.
Many acronyms are negative and self-inhibiting. They stop us from pondering possibilities or alternatives. Here’s one that will switch your thinking from negative to positive.
Your #1 job as a leader is to create a compelling vision of winning
Curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something
Your employees are making decisions right now. How do they now the best ones if they don’t know the business of your business?
To make this a reality, leaders need to develop transparent thinking in themselves and their team members.
Roger Bannister set out to become the first athlete to break the four-minute mile. “Experts” told him it was impossible. Some even suggested he was risking death; doctors told him his heart would explode! Not only did Bannister not die, but the week after he broke the barrier another runner followed in his footsteps,…
No doubt 2020 was a challenging year in so many ways. Whether you were busier than you ever dreamed because market conditions changed in your favor, or you were shut down, had supply chains completely disrupted, or found your customers were negatively impacted, 2020 tested us at work. And that doesn’t even begin to cover…
Effective business management requires balancing the big picture with the details.
Today’s uncertain and volatile business landscape calls for new ways of thinking and working. So why do most companies attempt to solve problems and manage massive change in the wrong manner? A lot of it has to do with the way the human brain works. Our brains love certainty and predictability. So when faced with…
Individual and organizational brains in constant, unexpected change If you are like many, you were certain in April that by June we would see a settling in to the ‘new normal’. And then in May, once again, many of us were sure that by the end of June, our norms would be reset, and we…
During times of uncertainty, human beings seek community and safety, and many find it in the workplace. Work typically provides a much-needed sense of stability and control over at least one aspect of our lives when everything else has gone topsy-turvy. Yet, millions of people have lost their jobs, either temporarily or permanently, due to…
Why is it so hard to keep up with the pace of change these days? Some ascribe it to the overwhelming amount of information we try to process every day. Others point to the rapid pace of change. Both are partly to blame. But the primary reason is our brains were not constructed to work…
The human brain is an amazing tool. But there’s one thing it doesn’t handle very well – change. Especially change of the magnitude brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody saw this virus coming, but it has turned our world upside down. Our challenge as leaders is how we respond to it – a task…