David Summerton Business Consulting
A Blueprint For Departmental and Organisational Success If you look around you will find a range of Departments where you work, or Organisations that you would like to work for, that have success seemingly nailed down, using reliable systems and metrics to build sequentially upon previous success and achievements. Their success is admirable, but how …
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Five Key Roles Every Team Needs Teams need nurturing and care is needed in their growth and development: it can never be just about performance at any cost and just hoping for the best. All successful Teams need the following roles to be filled by competent, dedicated and enthusiastic individuals who have the skills and …
What Does A Premium Team Look Like? Strong and highly effective Teams have a number of clear, recognisable features: these can relatively quickly be made into a Checklist so that you can tweak and modify practices and systems to get the final piece of the efficiency and effectiveness jigsaw. The Premium Team Checklist: The Team …
Why Teams Are Dysfunctional And Unproductive? We all want to manage or to be part of a Team that systematically and carefully achieves its goals: this can be a major source of frustration and concern with huge amounts of effort and time being put into making this happen. A more productive and effective approach is …
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Why Managers Should Be Obsessed With Their Customers Customer focus MUST be the number one priority of any organisation: it sounds really simple to say it but otherwise what is your organisation doing and why is it here? Currently we operate in markets where the customer is becoming more demanding, more intolerant of poor performance …
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How Can I Improve My Personal Impact? Nobody wants to be the proverbial wallflower in any set of circumstances, where our views are ignored, trashed or not sought in the first place! This is true whether the context is a social gathering, a family setting and certainly in any work-related meeting or interaction. Being ignored …
How Managers And Leaders Should Show Humility Humility and willing to be humble about your skills and achievements are key personal traits that all successful managers exhibit every day and which, in turn, inspire those around them. There are significantly different levels of Humility in the workplace which can be categorised around the following types …
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How To Get Your Staff Excited About Their Workload The primary function of a manager is to get the best from their staff in terms of effectiveness and efficiency: the best performing areas of ANY organisation are those that motivate their staff to achieve, push forward with developments and innovate. Excited staff who are motivated …
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The Top 5 Management Challenges Facing Every Manager The manager’s role is never easy and different sectors and organisations often have their own unique set of strategic and operational issues. That said, the following strategic issues should be on every manager’s mind: Communication: who do I/we communicate with, on what and when, what level of …
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The Inconvenient Truths About Management Whatever your role and whatever your duties, management is a bit of a challenge and is never easy. The following are the Inconvenient Truths that unite every manager in every context: Management is hard work: if it was easy everyone would be a manager and on occasion the job will …
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