To achieve survive and thrive goals - your engineering or metal manufacturing business requires focus. You might have ambitious goals and you might have grand plans to achieve them, but you are too busy just running your business day to day that you can’t get started. Sound...
Google growth Late in the 1990s, 17 different search engines were fighting to dominate the web. Then the 18th search engine started up – Google. Normally someone arriving so late to the party would not stand a chance, especially having given all the other time to establish themselves. So how...
Focus: The results of your business matter more than anything else – yes? If your business does not achieve revenue targets, acquire new customers and ultimately remain profitable, then its future is under threat. From March 2020 most office-based businesses proved that the Monday-Friday, 9-5, in the...
Research might be the end of the office-based 9-5 Before the spring of 2020, the traditional way of working for over 90% of office-based workers was to commute to an office, start work at 9 am, sit behind a desk, surrounded by a team, maybe attend...
Business Success The immediate need to work from home caused by the pandemic in March 2020 changed the way we work as a country and affected the way work is accomplished. For some working from home was a challenge, many had never done it before and been...
Remote Working - Results Matter Most From the spring of 2020 we were forced by the global pandemic to very quickly (overnight almost), adjust the way we all work. For some businesses in the retail and hospitality sectors the pandemic meant working from home was a non-starter...
Growth Mindset Instinctively we like growth. We like the mental pictures it builds in our minds. In business, growth is good, right? The Western world is built on a premise of growth for shareholders, who want to see ever-increasing returns on their investment. But what IS growth? Is...
Quarterly Goals When you started your business, you’ll have had many ideas about the direction you wanted it to go in and what you wanted to achieve. You had dreams, ideas, goals and objectives. Even in uncertain times, maybe especially in uncertain times, setting goals for your...
Good Strategy – you have heard the word bandied about in many business scenarios, probably including your own. But what does it mean? The dictionary definition states: “a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim”. or “the art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements...
Remote Working: How can you successfully manage a team when you’re not with them every day? This new conundrum has been served upon you as one of a multitude of consequences of the pandemic and is one for which most managers don’t have a list of...