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Coping with redundancy, changing jobs or starting a business is stressful. Alongside ‘the-end-of-the-familiar’ is a whole lot of new stuff too. Coping with change can be difficult even for us who’s job it is to help others cope. Evaluating from your audience, customer or potential client perspective can be overlooked all too easily. How to cope with read more of Change, practice makes perfect? Cadbury employees are waking up this morning wondering what will happen to their jobs after their board of directors approved Kraft’s takeover proposal. It’s certain there will be job losses, how many and exactly where, is yet to be announced. Kraft will already be working on the who and where but as yet, all that remains read more of Cadbury employees fear the ‘Kraft knife’ Congratulations Sir Ranulph Fiennes who set foot on the summit of Everest in the early hours of today, two failed attempts and a heart attack after he first tried to conquer the mountain in 2005. At 65, he is the first British pensioner to reach the summit of Everest. What an inspiration for we couch potatoes; much read more of Much respect You’ve got one question wrong…how frustrating is it to be told but without knowing which answer needs re-addressing, that’s like eating a sandwich with the cling film still on, a bit tasteless. You have a spelling mistake on the ‘testimonials’ page of your website; “perfromance” should be replaced with “performance.” Business leaders, managers and colleagues read more of Deliver solutions A quarter of potential jobseekers will lie to get a job HR directors and recruiting professionals need to be aware that almost a quarter (24%) of potential job seekers are prepared to stretch the truth in securing a job whilst 15% admit they would exaggerate about their skills, qualifications and experience, says SHL Group. Research carried read more of Candidates stretch the truth 1. Because you are already good and recognise that it’s going to take that bit extra to become Outstanding! Your Executive Coach will hold you accountable for the actions read more of 7 magnificent reasons to get an Executive Coach I was fortunate enough to travel on Concorde from London to New York. A more inspirational and alluring commercial aircraft it is hard to imagine. It seems although we were bright and talented enough to conceive, design and create this engineering wonder, we lack the foresight and gumption to celebrate its success in an appropriate way. The read more of Concorde ready to depart Critics have been swift to savage Lewis Hamilton the British Formula One World Champion for ‘lying’ at the Malaysian grand prix to race officials. Consequently both Lewis and his McLaren team have been disqualified from the race and await further punishment from the FIA governing body. How this incident will affect Lewis Hamilton’s reputation in the read more of Lewis Hamilton – still learning Arriving home this evening, two letters on the mat, both from British Telecom (BT). One, my bill for fixed line-rental the other, an invitation to leave my present fixed line provider and ‘join BT’ incredible! Talk about right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing? Incredible maybe, wasteful certainly. Rough Calculation: Letter, stamp, sales and marketing read more of Wasteful BT It’s tempting, in the face of challenging financial conditions to cut-back on all expenditure save for that absolutely necessary for survival. Behaviour designed to enable the business to survive can have self-fulfilling outcomes however, meaning the organisation mearly makes it through and exists only. OK, continuing to trade is a given, but what if this is at read more of Tough times for business – Fight Through |
  
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