How to be effective in managing your time

Finding the time We all get the same number of hours in a day, why are some people able to get so much done? If you need to improve your time management, the first step is to where the time goes. For the next week log how you spend your time in 5 minute increments. […]

Moments of Truth – customer service

Many years ago I moved from working as an occupational psychologist to work in business excellence/ total quality management. We worked at implementing and embedding the concepts of the business excellence model throughout Royal Mail. I learnt so much and this continues to part of my way of working including • The need to have […]

Taking Minutes

Another client has got a job offer and he starts next week – congratulations! Part of his job will be taking minutes and he asked me for some advice. There are plenty of books on sale about minute taking but I wonder if he might benefit from the approach we used when I worked for […]

How to Love Your Job – Denise on BBC Radio Scotland

Gosh I’m busy, working on the 2nd edition of How to get a job in a recession, I’ll be blogging more on this soon. Yesterday I was on BBC Radio Scotland discussing how to fall in love with your job again. I was due to be on Radio Scotland a couple of weeks ago, discussing […]

Fear of Networking

I’m working on the networking chapter, many people fear networking. This can be Fear about networking You are not the first or only person who needs to find another job. It is more than likely that some of your primary contacts will have shared the same experience or have a relation who has done so. […]

What motivates you?

Every thought about what motivates you? Here’s some questions to get you thinking, and it will help you to assess how happy you are in your current company. How do you want to be managed? What style suits you best (Top down? Involving?) How important is it to have good supervision? How much acknowledgement, praise […]

Hate Mondays

Is Monday misery necessarily a symbol that you don’t enjoy your job.  I love my job and I work from home, but I still loathe that Monday morning feeling… It could be, especially if you are unhappy at work.  You’ve just spent 2 days doing what you want to do and now it’s back to […]

Professional Development

We all need to take responsibility of our career and professional development. Some companies will send us on training courses, with companies such as Halogen Software but we can also take ownership ourselves. We can read books, look up journals online and discuss ideas at conferences and meetings. We can also look beyond the constraints […]

Looking good for the job- the impact of what you wear

We’ve been on a number of small planes whilst on holiday and I’ve noticed that all the pilots are wearing standard pilot dress, white shirts with epaulets.  I know that pilots for large commercial planes will be in their uniform, as how would we as passengers feel if we saw our pilots in chinos or […]

Part time study whilst working

Going to university to study for a full time degree is one option. Another option is to study part time alongside a job. The website – Not Going to Uni has an article  on how to get your employer to pay for your degree and it describes how it is a win-win for both employer and […]