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.”...

Get to the habit level

Everybody wants to improve what they do and achieve their goals faster. Quite often we look for shortcuts – tips and tricks that will help us to get what we want faster, because what we want is to do it with...

What you don’t need to know

There are lots of things you don't need to know. Did you know rubber bands last longer when you put them in the fridge? That there are two hundred and ninety-three ways to make change for a dollar? Probably...

How you handle CCed emails

By looking at the number and type of CCed emails you receive on a weekly basis, you can really get an insight into your company culture. Are you handling CCed emails or is your inbox in control? CCed...

Start by discussing right away

How to have better meetings: Think about the meetings you have: how often do you get people together for an hour meeting in the hopes of reaching a solution, but spend forty-five minutes getting ideas...