David Summerton Business Consulting
How To Make Strategy Work Lots of organisations have lofty ideals of where they want to be: much is written about corporate direction, goals and measurements yet despite all of that mental energy being spent, strategic goals fall away, fail and are consigned to history. Whilst setting out your strategy is never easy there is …
Management Principles That Guarantee Success So, you have got the job title and salary that you wanted, the office and even possibly a space in the car park – well done for getting this far! Truth is, though, that having the position is just the start – to become effective and recognised as such, takes …
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The Two Management Pillars of Exploration and Exploitation The management challenge is all about developing the following two skills, both in terms of the way in which you run your area of responsibility and in how you manage yourself: Being capable of EXPLORATION by exploring, developing and delivering flexible ways of working where the capability …
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Business Strategy Checklist - Key Self-Assessment Questions There are no magic bullets or cures, templates or spreadsheets that can tell you how your organisation or department is delivering against the competition and the wider environment. This is something that you have to do for yourself, taking into account as a starting point your sales and …
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Why Do Some Managers Fail? Not every management appointment is an automatic success, and many have to work at learning their craft over many years to become truly effective and efficient in the role. There are many reasons why a manager is not a success: some are very complex, some very simple, some unique to …
How To Deliver An Excellent Team Briefing When you need to make sure that the Team completes a task exactly how you want it to be produced the difference between success and failure is simply down to how YOU go about planning and executing your briefing. The following 5 pointers should feature in any Team …
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Three Ways To Deliver Successful Change We all want the manager’s role to deliver effective and sustainable change that will drive forward the organisation but HOW do we start that that process off? Start by considering the three essentials for Successful Change: Curiosity: encourage and allow staff to ask questions all the time, the why …
6 Top Management Values To Deliver Success Do the Right Thing: you will know when something is just plain right in just the same way that you will instinctively know when a plan or approach is just plain wrong. Doing the Right Thing is always the correct path. Aim Higher: performance can always be bettered …
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Management Deadlines Revised – A New Way The traditional view of setting a deadline and implying pain, discomfort and making excuses as to why things have not happened is finished – there is a new way to get staff to deliver on time, on quality and on quantity. Business-critical tasks or urgent jobs are pushed …
How Can I Review My Department’s Progress? We all want out Department and areas of responsibility to do well but sometimes under pressure to achieve and deliver our goals and targets, we lose focus and are not able to fully measure how things are going. The trick to dealing with this very important, critical self-review, …
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