Continuing on my voyage of discovery as a self-employed consultant seeking to help teams become not only more effective but great at what they do, I’m learning so much from the people I meet as well as the books I’m reading. Special thanks to Simon Brooks of Contacts4Business for starting me on this train of …
When I work with project teams, they often have both project leader and manager roles, but are unclear about their respective roles; or have only the one role, and miss out some of the vital responsibilities. In my continued reading of Stephen Covey’s 8th Habit, I find that he and his team have done some …
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Writing blogs is a new experience for me and as such an exciting new toy for expressing my ideas and inviting reactions from others. First Stephen Covey (The 8th Habit), and today an article in The Times, have brought home to me the significant difference that the internet and social networking tools are making to …
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One of the preoccupations in large organisations is how to encourage individuals to be more ‘self-empowered’. In the words of one of my HR colleagues, it can become a bit of an oxymoron if employees choose not to be, whilst employers are telling them to be… Having started on my journey of being self-employed whilst …
Is the key to empowerment to adopt a self-employed attitude? Read More »
Rummy is one of our favourite family card games. For those not familiar with it this site might help http://www.pagat.com/rummy/rummy.html. My husband and I were mulling over this at breakfast today. To be effective as a consultant you need to be able to spot the opportunities that might ‘win’: you might be lucky enough to …
