Delegation in Management – Why Leaders Need To Delegate and Why They Don’t
Delegation in management is a must-have tool in today’s businesses. Many of us struggle with or won’t do it. Here are some of the reasons why we don’t delegate but should.
Delegation in management is a must-have tool in today’s businesses. Many of us struggle with or won’t do it. Here are some of the reasons why we don’t delegate but should.
Leading a team you were once part of is a daunting task. I this post, I share some lessons I learnt about taking over a team I was once a member of along with some tips to make the transition from team member to the leader of the team.
Do you have a communication strategy that serves to keep your team and people in your organisation updated? People don’t like to be kept in the dark and, in this post, we look at the impact of not communicating and the benefits of having a more planned approach to communication.
Are leaders born? Are leaders developed? In this post I look at the debate that often comes up in our leadership skills training course and offer some thoughts on this.
This weeks task was simple – take a set of products, try and sell them, find out what’s selling, re-invest your money in the moving products and sell them and so on. But it seemed that both of this week’s teams didn’t quite grasp this. For this week the teams were yet again mixed and … Read more
This weeks task saw the team picking British products and selling them to French retailers. After a re-jig of the teams, Lord Sugar placed Tom in charge of Logic and Susan put herself forward to be in charge of Venture. The first job of the day was to split the teams and send one half … Read more
In this weeks task, the teams were asked to produce a free premium magazine and sell advertising space in them. These free magazines that have come to be known as Freemiums are a massive business due to the volume that is given away and makes money from the advertising space that is available. It was … Read more
This weeks task was all about rubbish! More specifically it was about Logistics, Planning and knowing the value of time and product. The task was to collect rubbish and make a profit from it. Trying to charge more collection than it would to dump as well as looking out for a valuable product that could … Read more
How to manage change and make it stick. This post looks at some of the reasons why change fails and ways to manage change more effectively and successfully
In our customer service training course we often hear the term ‘the customer is always right’. There is often an argument that this isn’t always true. In this post we look at if customers are always right and, if they are, why.