Category Archive For "Management & Leadership"
Infographic: The Visual Toolkit For Office Productivity
Did you know the average worker is only productive for 3 hours in a standard 8 hour work day? If your employees are only productive 38% of the time, shouldn’t you focus on getting the most out of them during that time? This is often harder said than done, but research shows that using a …
How To Delegate Tasks Within Your Team Effectively
Every manager knows that in order to get tasks completed, delegation may be the answer that you seek. Delegation is when you assign work to someone else, asking them to complete the task for you. It also seems to be one of the things that managers, and other employees, really struggle to do. There are …
How Different Management Styles affect Employee Motivation & Productivity
Whether you manage a large team, an entire business or perhaps just one or two other people, it is your job to make sure that the work is done. One of the main influencing factors in this has to be the motivation of your employees. Employees that are lacking in motivation are less likely to …
Feeling Unproductive? Here Are 5 Tips To Boost Your Productivity At Work
When you are at work, you are there to work. Which means that you really need to find your focus and get on with the tasks at hand. It can sometimes be hard to be productive at work, especially when there are so many different distractions around you. However, with some careful thought it is possible …
The Ultimate List of Task Management Software To Consider For You And Your Team
In our previous blog post we covered some of the best free task management tools that you can use to complete projects and daily tasks. Whilst these task management tools are great for the budget conscious, there are also some paid task management tools that are work considering. They are suited to those that see task …
The Top 9 Free Task Management Tools
A host of free task management tools exist. But which one is right for your business or project? In this post we break down the top nine free task management tools. We outline what each free task management tool is best used for, what makes it great (and where it’s not so great). If you …
Five Common Mistakes Founders Make All Too Often
When trying to explain to friends what does it feel to be a founder of a startup I often say “it’s okay” because it’s too overwhelming even to start to explain all the fears I am dealing with in my day to day life. In lack of better words, I’d like to quote here a …
How To Effectively Manage a Remote Team
The world has become a virtual place, which means that the approaches we have to working has had to change. It seems that one of the main areas that we have seen these changes occur is within remote working. A few years ago, the idea of having a team that worked remotely, separately and away …
How To Run An Effective Meeting In 20 Minutes or Less
Everyone wants to run an effective meeting. Everyone wants to save time. But time and time again I bet you have experienced a certain feeling. A feeling of annoyance as you sit in a meeting room for hours on end. Everyone seems to be talking, but nothing is getting done. It doesn’t have to be …
How to be a Charismatic Leader – Five Steps To Make It Happen!
Charismatic leaders inspire and motivate. They captivate a room. And command attention. (Often at the expense of others who have more skill or expertise in a particular area.) And while it may seem that charismatic leaders are born, not made, that doesn’t have to be the case. Anyone can be a charismatic leader. If they …