The calendar year-end can either be a relaxing time for many, or a frantic period for others. Either way you might just take a few moments to think about the stress in your life and how to reduce it. Nicole Fallon from Business News Daily has collected a range of …
Stress Busters
Sunday, September 27, 2015In the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale there are a number of events that if they occurred within the past year and when added together, can provide a rough estimate of how stress will affect your life. For an adult, death of spouse tops the list with 100 points. Divorce …
Use Your Calendar to Form Good Habits
Sunday, August 30, 2015Recently Stephanie Lee blogged some really useful tips on using your calendar more effectively to form good habits. You can read the full article here. These habits can be personal (like exercising) or professional (read ABS InfoLink each fortnight). Whatever they are, Lee has some very handy tips to use …
The Five Levels of Delegation
Sunday, July 5, 2015I was interested to read Peter Economy’s thoughts on delegation in a recent online Inc. blog (read it here), as I had not really thought much about there being different levels of delegations. It is obvious now that it is through delegation that a leader manages to achieve the objectives …
Want to be More Productive at Work?
Sunday, June 21, 2015In a recent Business News Daily blog, Nicole Fallon, Business News Daily proposes 10 things that can improve your productivity right away. And as leaders, don’t just keep these to yourself, but see if there are ways you can introduce some of these into your employees workspaces and work lives …
It’s Time to Kill the Performance Review
Monday, June 8, 2015Melissa Dahl looks at the research into performance reviews in a recent Science of Us blog (read it here) and finds that there is little to support its practice. It appears the annual performance review is typically viewed as just another thing on the list of compliance items for managers …