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 you are struggling to make the impact on Google that you had hoped for, you may be wondering where you are going wrong. Although you have invested a lot of time and effort into your search engine optimisation strategy, you do not seem to be getting the results you had hoped for. Perhaps you…
The business world is becoming more competitive by the day. Even if your business is flourishing at the moment, there’s still some benefit from upgrading it. Upgrading a business comes with its set of challenges, but it can make a big difference in enhancing its sustainability. Upgrading your business not only makes it appeal more…
Image Pixabay CC0 License The internet is a powerful tool and offers unlimited potential for businesses. Creating an online presence provides your company with far-reaching benefits and allows firms to promote themselves to their target audience and connect with their customers. Your business probably has a website, and maybe you post on social media every…
Your business could be growing at a good pace for a couple of years, making you feel like it’s stable enough for growth. However, sometimes, you may feel stuck or find it challenging to exceed or keep up with the competition. Business growth is a venture that requires targets, dedication, and strategies that propel you…
Pexels As a business owner, it may be necessary to provide training for your employees or have a way to impress and educate your customers about a new product or service. In this case, it may be wise to host a corporate event and get in front of your target audience in person. Hosting business…
Whatever kind of business you happen to run, you are always going to need to develop a lot of trust with your customers. The more that they trust you, the more they are going to both return to you for more, and recommend you to friends and family. Clearly, it is in your best interests…
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…