The new you

Like many of us, you have probably come back to work with a mind full of New Year’s resolutions to pave a brighter road for the more improved you!  By now you may have ditched a few of the more unrealistic ones like giving up chocolate or caffeine and opted for the...

Is your time theirs or yours?

Picture yourself in your school days, sitting at your desk staring at that blackboard (yes we had those once upon a time - no whiteboards or tablets!) wishing the hours would move faster so you could flee the scene of  the crime at 3pm!  Apart from a precious few, it...

Can you ‘funnel’ learning?

'There's more than way to skin a cat', is the old adage.  The same applies to how to train.  Just because that's the way it's always been done it doesn't mean it can't be done a better way. Traditional learning is primarily centred around a core set of topics that we...

How do you keep your staff motivated?

Admit it, some days motivating your staff is like pushing rope! It's that silver bullet of management - keeping your staff motivated on a sustained basis. There are short term fixes like buying them ice creams on a hot day or longer term tricks like reward and...