Brush up your Business & Management Skills!

Business and management skills are catered for in many different publications. This page takes you to useful and thought provoking articles on how to brush up on your skills, and manage better, whether in a big corporate or running your own small business.

These articles are crafted to help you with your business & management skills. Most are straight articles, and some provide recommendations on value for money courses that you can check out.

Personal Development issues are covered in a separate part of this website - click here for articles on Self Confidence, Assertiveness, networking, career goals, and more..

Can you see the answer to your issue in the articles and advice below?

Wouldn't it be great if your specific management skills issue was addressed?

And if you didn't like the advice, you could say so?

All the articles come from real experiences, and real people - some from my own experience, but many from others.

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Managing your workforce

Do you want to ensure that your staff are properly engaged? How can you measure this, and how can you get the best out of your workforce at the same time as increasing their satisfaction in the job?A systematic approach is best, and to help you, find out more about the Workforce Analysis Profile, at Profiles International. Click here for more details.

Current Articles

2. Customer Retention- 5 Ways to Keep your Customers
It is well known that it is cheaper to keep a customer than it is to gain a new one. But why are we so bad at customer retention?..... more

3. Negotiating
A very useful article which aims at win-win solutions to all types of negotiation, whether with customers, suppliers, your boss, or whoever......more

4. Time Management
Does your time management let you down? It is so easy for work to suddenly pile up......more

5. The 6 Gate Project Approach
Of the many different project management techniques I have come across, the 6 Gate method is to me one of the most powerful. It does not replace more complex methods, but.....more

6. Five Part Program to avoid Firefighting
Do you get a buzz out of sorting that crisis? Did you feel a sense of satisfaction when you managed to......more

7. Interviewing Candidates
Everything I have read and researched on interviewing is aimed at interviewees, not the poor interviewer......more

8. Staff Sickness
Have you ever had staff going off sick at the drop of a hat, yet you're sure it's not real? ......more

9. Cash Flow & Business Debt
The check's in the post!  I cringe when I hear that......more

10. Delegation
Delegation is easy to advise, not so easy to do successfully. In early 2003 I received the following plea: ......more

11. Decisions
Do you find it difficult to make decisions? At work, sometimes I find it easier to spend time reading all my emails and arranging them in lists, than actually DO anything about them.....more


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