Are RFP’s for consulting services a waste of time? Can clients do their own diagnosis and then judge the differences between different proposals based on varying philosophies?
You be the judge – How to Issue an Effective RFP for Consulting Services.
Want success? Put it in your schedule
Success doesn’t come by randomly falling into one activity after another. Instead, it must be pre-planned if it’s going to take place at all. Here are some new reasons to follow this timeless routine.
Interview with Beatrice Briggs – May 01,2014
Source: CaribHR.Radio feed
Dr. Ivor Livingston Interview – Apr 17,2014
Source: CaribHR.Radio feed
Is Your Company a Time Glutton?
There’s recent research from McKinsey and Co showing that executive teams are poor at executing projects, partly because they are weak at managing their time demands.
In other words they overcommit – being much better at managing time than money. The pressure turns companies into time gluttons.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140413/business/business8.html
Hiding Behind Email – a Bad Idea
I heard a new term in my training recently – “swarming.” It’s when an employee is inundated by other people, all of whom have been asked by an email sender to help get a timely response.
It inspired an article focusing on email abuse which can be found here.
Why Managers Need to Shut Up and Listen
For this article in the Gleaner, for which I was also interviewed live on TVJ, I did a thought experiment – what would it be like if a company’s employees became millionaires? Is there company good enough to stay?
Here’s the 6 minute video interview I did last week on the morning show.
The original Gleaner article that came out on March 16th can be found here.
The Importance of a Distraction-Free Environment
When I lead my NewHabits programs, one of the most important conversations surround the layout of office-space to reduce visual, audible and human distractions. It’s one that I tackled in my article in the Gleaner: Wide-Open Offices Bad for Productivity.
Should Executives be Better or Worse at Email?
In this article I wrote for the Gleaner, I argue that superior email skills are fast becoming a requirement of the executive suite, and not something that can be delegated.
From the Sunday Gleaner Business section – Executives Need Advanced Email Skills.
Encountering the Boss from Hell
Instead of cowering in fear of a Boss from Hell, it’s better to have a plan to deal with his/her abusive behaviour. This, according to my recent article in the Gleaner.