Tag: Management
Productivity Hacks: Making the Most of Your 8-Hour Workday
In a world where the competition is intense, mastering the art of productivity is the key to success. Whether you're a seasoned professional, a budding entrepreneur, or just starting your career journey, making the most of your 8-hour workday is crucial. Let us look at a few practical and actionable productivity hacks that can elevate your efficiency, focus, and overall work performance without making things overly complicated.
The Motivation Equation: Balancing Recognition and Challenges in 2024
Nowadays, leaders face the perpetual challenge of motivating their teams to achieve their best. As we step into the new year, the importance of striking the right balance between recognition and challenges becomes increasingly vital. So, let's take a look at some actionable strategies to keep your employees motivated in 2024, considering the evolving market trends and expectations.
Why professional services firms are scared to stand out from the crowd
When you look at financial services firms, the first thing that comes to mind is accounting, financial planning, legal and management consulting firms. Although the breadth of professional services firms is much greater than that and includes marketing and recruitment, it’s our financial and legal counterparts that really struggle to stand out from the crowd.
How to Run a Marketing Strategy Workshop
Whether you are a team leader, external third party, or marketing manager, running a marketing strategy workshop can be quite daunting – especially if you are unprepared.
The benefit of a marketing strategy workshop is that you can understand the entire marketing operations in your business and how it influences key stakeholders. It’s a great opportunity to get your team together and understand the various goals of your management, sales, and marketing team, and if necessary, how it applies to your product or service development strategy.
By having a checklist in place, and getting your team fired up for an invigorating exercise that will help your business achieve goals.
Post COVID - What makes a good employee
When the founder comes back to manage the business, sometimes there's a shock!
It's a daunting task because all of a sudden you have responsibility and there are new ways in which you need to navigate how you lead the team, and take them where you want to go, but also, where they want to go.
Why John Doe Failed at Sales AND Marketing
Jealous that someone is climbing the ladder faster than you?
The green-eyed monster is a mental cancer (B.C. Forbes quote), and can be a huge culture killer, leaving employees that are affected by it disengaged and unproductive.
Did you make your last quarter sales figures - we didn't!
I'm shocked, concerned, worried and trying to rack my mind as to why. I find myself looking for answers.
Do you reward bad behavior? Sometimes you actually do.
When we reward bad behavior a few things happen: