How To Plan Your Week For Better Productivity
Every person at least once had a life situation when he or she was overwhelmed with tasks and had a desire to leave all that for fortune. However, that never helps how hard you will ask. The only truthful fact in this situation is an evidence that this person is not able to manage his […]
Is your inbox making you ill?
When I coach executives on work-life balance I start by asking one simple question: What would you do if you had an extra hour in the day? Hundreds of people have answered this. No one has ever answered ‘work’. Not one. Some have said ‘exercise’ or ‘spend more time with my family’. The majority just […]
Effective Research Based Email Marketing Strategie
In this day and age, the inbox of an average customer is full of competitive subject lines, marketing messages, and lots of attention-grabbing emails. Email marketing is one of the best channels to promote business communication with around 144 billion emails which are sent every day. So how could you separate yourself from the noise? […]
How Executive Coaching Leads to Bigger and Better
After to fit your personality, this expert will help take your personal and business life to the next level. One great aspect of coaching many students appreciate is the ability to get bigger and better promotions at work after going through a coaching program for an extended period of time.You may be wondering how executive […]
Apps that Help Productivity in the Workplace
Managing time at work is never easy – especially if you have a high pressured, hectic job. There some impressive project management mobile apps out there that you may not be aware of – here are some of them… Asana Asana is available on Android and iOS platforms and features high-level views of projects through […]
How to start online business
If you have entrepreneurial blood, you will at some point consider beginning a startup business. A startup is defined as a business recently launched with the hopes of tremendous growth. I’m sure your primary goal for starting any type of business is to earn. Of course, you want to offer services to the world. But […]
Books and films for inspiration
Procrastination and lack of inspiration are quite working moments, familiar to each of us. Nevertheless, not everyone knows how to deal with them productively. The answer lies on the surface. Many psychologists and business coaches say that watching certain films and reading books increases our desire to work and achieve success. We decided to find […]
Manage tasks using a Training Management Platform
We’ve all been there right? Wishing we had some way to be more organised at work and managed our tasks and workloads a bit better. To-do lists, sticky notes, calendar reminders – too many different systems can be a bit overwhelming and you can end up sticking to none of them and just trying to […]
Strategies To Keep You Sane When You Hate Your Job
Very few people are lucky enough to go straight from college into the career of our dreams. For most of us, there is at least a little time spent in jobs that we loathe. If you are currently in a job that you just can’t stand, here are our seven tips on how to get […]
6 Time Management Tips for Corporate Trainers
As a corporate trainer, you are a special breed. You have a specific training niche – programs you have developed and now market to companies. You have short-term and/or sporadic relationships with your clients, taking their employees through your program, perhaps providing some follow-up at a future time, and then you move on to the […]
The lost art of networking
I recently went to a conference in India and attended another event in Bangladesh. Great networking opportunities. At both I couldn’t help but notice the proliferation of business card exchange that was going on. I found myself joining in and doling out my own card as well as adding loads to my now very large […]
Costing Training design & development after conducting Training Needs Analysis
There are many ways to decide on the cost of training design & development, for example; Chapman, B. (2010). How Long Does it Take to Create Learning? [Research Study]. Published by Chapman Alliance LLC. www.chapmanalliance.com But that assumes that you are starting from scratch. If however, you have completed a full Training Needs Analysis (TNA) […]
The Dreaded Weekly Meeting
Have you ever attended a meeting and wondered why? Worse, have you ever attended a regular weekly meeting and wondered why every week? I have. When I was a young manager, I used to attend a ‘Section Heads’ meeting every Monday. They were time consuming (they’d take the entire morning). They were boring. And they were […]
Are you banking your knowledge?
How many times did you tell the prospective client that your company has years and years of experience in providing a particular service when in reality you are planning to work with a relatively inexperienced crew? Well, your inexperienced team need not be poor in knowledge if your company has a knowledge bank that stores […]
Training duration: what’s the golden ratio?
I've read quite a lot around the subject of attention spans, and the lengths of time given can range from anything from 5 hours to 15 minutes! Have you found a certain amount of time before learners lose focus, and how do you deal with this – do you break sessions into manageable chunks, change […]
Sales Planning Exercises
I am new to sales training and i am looking for training exercises for advanced sales planning, any help would be appreciated. Nicola I am new to sales training and i am looking for training exercises for advanced sales planning, any help would be appreciated.Nicola
5 Keys to Successful Time Management in the Workplace
When it comes to leadership, whether running a company or managing a team of just a few people, a lot of skills come into play. Many people wonder what the secret is to acquiring those skills, but in all honesty, there isn’t really a magical fix-all that can turn someone into a master of time […]
Great delegation or passing the buck?
Delegation skills are vital for all managers and team leaders. The advantages are immense. However delegation performed poorly leads to de-motivation, stress and low productivity. The delegator often blames the delegatee and tries to 'pass the buck' when very often it's their ability to delegate effectively that lies at the heart of the problem. "If you […]
Don’t control email – knock it on the head
In your organisation has email communication and overload ever been raised as an issue: – in a staff engagement survey?– in a management meeting?– at an away day focused on smarter working? Often the problem of email raises its head and plans are made to tackle it once and for all. But then other higher […]
A day in the life of: Adrian Pitt, freelance trainer at Develop-meant
We're always curious to hear how our members and contributors tackle the challenges that the ever-changing world of L&D throws at them. We've got a wealth of experience and knowledge across the site, and what better way to showcase the diversity of our community than to get them to walk us through an average day? Want to […]
