The one business skill you must have

You’re all ready for the big presentation, you’ve prepared and launch into your pitch, but the person you’re speaking to is checking their iPhone for email, flipping through a notebook, or texting away. Or, what if he or she keeps interrupting or disagreeing before you’re able to make your complete point?

You feel incredibly frustrated, you believe the person disrespects you and what you have to day, but unfortunately, it happens all the time.… Read more

6 tips to make a promotion succeed

The last couple of weeks I’ve written about hiring inside organisations, and having hired the internal candidate how can we make the internal hire a success?

We’ve all had a great employee, who does good work, and has told you that they are ready for more responsibility. Three months after promoting them to manager you regret the decision.

Thinking back, the hardest period in my working life was the first three months after moving to a new company to manage a team.  … Read more