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Meetings are biggest time-sucks for productivity. While you can’t avoid meetings altogether, here’s how you CAN make them shorter.

Since people generally fear public speaking more than dying, but public speaking is such a “cheat-code” for success, here’s five tips for getting your points across clearly and effectively when giving a public speech. You’re welcome.

The culture of a workplace tends to be this intangible and magical element with not much definition. When people talk about workplace culture, here’s some tips on how to build your team culture like a product.

Feedback loops are critical components to an ever-improving team. Giving constructive criticism and feedback can be balancing act. Giving a simple “Good job” really doesn’t cut it. Here’s 5 principles to try to give more impactful feedback.

In past conversations with clients, I’ve heard this refrain many times: “I don’t like my boss.” or “My boss doesn’t like me.” or “How do I navigate a bad boss?” or some iteration of these themes. Well, if you find yourself in this situation, here’s what you can do.

The biggest headache I had with leading a team of staff is regular interruptions. Eventually, I implemented an “office hours” for when I would field any questions that were non-urgent. If you find you’re not getting work done due to interruptions or you find work creeping too much into your personal life, then here’s how

Reading Time: 1 minute BIG4 PwC Gets Fined Stop me if you’ve heard this before, Big4 audit firm gets fined…PwC has been fined £5.6m by UK’s audit branch due to “serious failure” in its audit of engineering-firm, Babcock. Including creating false records…in the words of George Takei, “Oh Myyyyyyyyy”. BANKING Credit Suisse Gets Green Light

They say you shouldn’t multitask, rather focus on one task at a time. That’s the ideal situation, but when it comes to projects, it’s likely you’ll be juggling multiple projects at any one time. And if it feels like you’re spinning many plates at one time, then here’s how to handle multiple projects at a

Reading Time: 1 minute BANKING Financial Institutions Are Embracing AI While JP Morgan made the news by banning the use of ChatGPT, it doesn’t mean banks are ignoring AI. In fact, more and more financial institutions are looking at how they can integrate AI within their organization and products & services. MARKETS London Losing Listings?

On an individual basis, striving to be productive is a good goal to strive for. But, I’ve also seen from experience how personal productivity can create problems when your team is not as productive (have problems keeping up). Here’s what to do.

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One of the biggest challenges I’ve seen with managers and leaders is being comfortable letting go, not overly micro-manage and delegating effectively. Delegating tasks is not as simple as just assigning a task to someone on your team. Here’s some tips for delegating for success.

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While I personally loathe meetings, I know there is a place for them but often times it’s over-used. If you’re stuck with meetings, here’s a few ways for you to lead better meetings.

If you’re asking yourself this question, then your employees and team members are lucky you’re even asking yourself this question. But, it’s not a one-size-fits all answer. Gary Vaynerchuk gives a thoughtful and spot-on answer to the question: How do you show your employees you care.

Being a good boss doesn’t mean you have to be “best buddies” with your staff. It also doesn’t mean ruling with an iron fist, trying to instill fear into everyone. => Here’s a surprising secret to being a good boss.

I’m a big fan of limiting the use of meetings. But even I’ll admit there may be in specific situations a need for some meetings (I very reluctantly say this). So, which types of meetings should you throw away and which ones should you focus on? Here’s some help.

Ever have a manager who dilly-dally’s (being indecisive) when it comes to making decisions? Or maybe you Here are seven tips to making faster decisions and stop wasting time.

I have a huge disdain for meetings (both in-person and zoom). I understand there can be a need for meetings in specific circumstances, but most situations don’t really call for a meeting. See what happened at Zapier, a fully-remote company even pre-COVID), when they cancelled all meetings for a week.

All the books and content we see about “productivity”, are they wrong? Are they leading us down the wrong path? See what this author says about how we shouldn’t focus on productivity, but to focus on this instead.

No matter what you think of Jeff Bezos, there’s no denying what he’s achieved in taking Amazon to where it is today. He’s proven to be a keen observer. And he’s observed that the smartest people he’s seen do this.