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Manage your email, don’t let it manage you

Manage your email, don’t let it manage you

How to stop email (and social media) controlling your day   Email is a lot like Schrödinger’s cat. Both are dead and alive at the same time. Mathias Röckel There are over 4,371 billion email users. This figure is predicted to reach 4,730 billion by 2026 which is...
Managing projects

Managing projects

A project is a unique, transient endeavour, undertaken to achieve planned objectives, which could be defined in terms of outputs, outcomes or benefits. A project is usually deemed to be a success if it achieves the objectives according to their acceptance criteria,...
Mentoring, not coaching

Mentoring, not coaching

“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” Steven Spielberg     Ever find yourself wishing for a shoulder, a sounding board, a source of advice,...
Influence or influencer?

Influence or influencer?

Do you influence or are you an influencer? In 1936 Dale Carnegie wrote the quintessential self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People. Maybe he knew that in the soon to be airport bookshop, managers old and new, would be frantically looking for the solution...
Do a 1000 words paint a verbal picture?

Do a 1000 words paint a verbal picture?

Writing skills … message received and understood? Don’t let the medium be the message! Writing is one way to get your message across.  But how to make sure that the message your readers / your audience receive is the same as the one you sent? You may write or have...