One Step or Two Step People

Your communications skills are what power your success, especially as you climb the ladder in your career. At every level, you will encounter two types of people. One type is people who take information...

Preparing Others to Help You

There are so many times when you don't get the right help of others, and it is simply because you haven't prepared them to help you. A great example of this is how you invite others to attend your meetings....

Leveraging the Life Experiences of Others

…and Applying those Learnings to your Life If you are a leader, alongside delivering the performance of your organisation, one of your top priorities is growing your people. The most successful leaders...

NEW EBOOK: Leadership is pioneering the evolution of the workplace

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BUSINESS LEADERS, IT, OPERATIONS AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS ALL PULL IN THE SAME DIRECTION WHILE IN THE MIDST OF GREAT CHANGE? Answering this question has taken a lot of thought...

Making your responses count

When you’re leading people across distances and cultures, your response time is often critical. What difference could you make to your workplace if you could make your response times more efficient? When...

Does the perfect meeting exist?

We all know that meetings are an inevitable part of running a business (and this shouldn't be underestimated), but we also know that it can be difficult to focus and work effectively when you’re swamped...

Align your emotions to your goals

There’s one key attribute for all successful people (and you see the opposite in those who are unsuccessful)... successful people align their emotions to their goals. Unsuccessful people seem to focus...

Is collaboration a misunderstood concept?

We know that workspace design is full of ‘collaborative’ products that supposedly make your workforce immediately work better in teams… but doesn’t collaboration just mean communicating? What...

Being consistently different

You often hear managers say, “I just want to be fair.” But 'fair' is an unachievable goal, because fair is in the eye of the beholder. Everybody has a different opinion of what fair is. Rather...

Time can never be an excuse

You hear this all the time in conversations with people - almost every week. Someone says, “I just don’t have the time!” or, “I didn’t have the time…”, or even, “I wish I had more time.”...