8 Steps to Constructing Whitepapers A large proportion of my writing comprises industry Whitepapers or Dossiers, and it is becoming increasingly common for people to contact me seeking advice on how to form such large documents. So, here are my… Read More ›
2 Technology Trends that are Changing the Business World Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com The progression of technology in the past 10 years has been astounding, with advanced techniques and materials becoming cheaper, making it more accessible to the average consumer every year…. Read More ›
3 Technology Trends that are Changing the Business World Photo credit: BigStock.com Due to rapid advances in technology over recent years, businesses are looking at alternative methods for procuring and processing data in order to gain access to a larger… Read More ›
E-Leadership: The Challenges “Should there be a difference between regular leadership and e-leadership?” is a question many business leaders are now having to ask. While many of the required qualities may be the same, e-leadership doesn’t require… Read More ›
Balancing Job Demands and Resources – A Tightrope Act Do you or your staff alternate between burnout and engagement? Researchers postulate this could be due to an imbalance between the job demands being made on employees and the job… Read More ›
Book Review: What You See Is What You Get! Title: What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography Author: Alan Sugar Synopsis: Lord Alan Sugar takes you on a detailed journey from his childhood in a… Read More ›
Organisational Culture – The Importance of Core Values As each business tries to differentiate itself externally to its clients and customers by projecting a specific brand with its own intrinsic values and culture, it also needs to build these… Read More ›
Behavioural Economics and Social Media One of the largest factors that inhibits investors is knowledge. If an investor doesn’t know about an opportunity, they aren’t very likely to invest in it. Individual investors join large funds for this reason – major… Read More ›
Cognitive Biases and Behavioural Economics It takes the human brain three hundred to seven hundred milliseconds to identify a picture or read a word aloud from a page. We haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of the… Read More ›
Behavioural Economics: The Bare Basics Behavioural Economics is the study of psychologically based factors on the economic decisions of a person or institution and the resulting consequence on the financial market. This includes how public favour drives market decisions…. Read More ›
Providing or receiving feedback is not always easy, since the most useful feedback is that which highlights areas for improvement. One way to make the provision of feedback easier on both the provider and reciever, whether that be a friend, family member,… Read More ›
Active listening is not just about taking information in and processing it. It is also about our physical demeanour and body language. Egan (1986) devised five key component of active listening, known by the acronym SOLER: Sit straight (this is… Read More ›
“There is no learning without action and no action without learning” (Revans 1983) “So, what exactly are action learning sets?” I hear you ask. Action learning sets (ALS) are an educational development tool designed to facilitate continued development among… Read More ›
