David Summerton Business Consulting
How To Get Things Done Good managers test out their ability to do new things and to rise to new challenges: that is an unwritten part of the Job Description and an integral part of the Person Specification and goes without saying. What is NOT written down in either of those documents is that fact …
How To Manage A Virtual Team Effectively And Efficiently Managers are increasingly having to organise and work with a Team that is seldom, if ever, physically together given that the rise of remote working is gathering pace and is likely to become the norm for many workers. This creates a number of challenges, not least …
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How To Prioritise We have too much to do and time is shrinking as the volume and complexity of tasks increases. Sound familiar? The really successful manager is judged as much as by what they do not do as by what they actually do! Unsuccessful managers get judged all the time over what they never …
Was Last Week a Success – How to Judge? Got it all done? Got more done than you had to? Stunning! Managed not to upset too many people along the way? Actually upset no-one? You should join the Sainthood! Been Effective and Efficient? That’s great. OR did you achieve unprecedented levels of unverifiable productivity? Oh …
How Can I Use Just In Time PERSONALLY? We are probably all aware of the approach used in manufacturing called Just I Time (JIT) with its focus upon lean systems and the design and delivery of very efficient systems. Whilst this is great to see in operation and it directly benefits the organisation how can …
Solving The Staffing Conundrum In The Service Sector - Employ Robots! A new hotel has opened in Japan that is entirely staffed by robots. Gone are the issues of staff arriving late, leaving early, having excessively long tea breaks, spending company time gossiping and stealing the pens! This is a serious attempt by the hotel’s …
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How Do I Maximise My Personal Energy? The old, well-trodden path of Time Management is over. Dead. Redundant. Irrelevant and in the shadows of the fast paced management environment of 2015 and beyond. Time Management and its mantras of setting up Bring Forward files, ABCD priority systems and handling pieces of paper only once etc. …
Making Monday The Start Of The Best Working Week EVER! The working week approaches and there is the slight feeling of concern, even dread at what is coming. The Sunday evening nerves start to jangle a little and you begin to wonder how you can do the things you need to do by Friday and …
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