Why Multitasking is Not Your Friend
Multitasking means doing several things at once. Individuals and leaders sometimes think this is a good thing because you are “busy”. However, it can be clearly demonstrated that multitasking is an inefficient process that can contribute to waste in any business. Learn more about the problems with multitasking and their solutions. Yellow Belt Table of Contents […]
SM3.1 De-Stress
Stress is one of the major problems faced by business Owner/Operators. There are straight forward ways, though, of reducing the 4 main contributors to this stress; and they do not take very long to implement. We show how to convert “distress” to “de-stress”. Typical stress points in smaller businesses are caused by: People: hiring, firing, managing […]
SM2.1 The Amazing 80/20 Rule Tool
Would you be interested in knowing a way to increase your productivity by 16 times!
Got your attention? The following material gives an insight into how this is possible.
How to use Time Management Skills Tools
There is one thing that every business person will tell you they are short of. That is TIME! Time Management Skills are a way to drive a wedge into, and free up, more time. So much so that you will, rather bizarrely, find yourself with nothing to do from time to time. Part one is Yellow […]
How to Double Your Personal Productivity in Under Two Weeks
There just never seems to be enough time in the life of a manager toget all the things queued up in front of you done. Do you know that feeling? It doesn’t have to be like that though. Two simple skills can make you up to 16 times more productive! Read on to see how you […]
SM3.2 De-Stress Video
Watch this short 11 minute video on how to reduce the four main sources of small business owner/operator stress.
SM3.0 How to De-Stress Introduction
Stress is All Around Us. There is no doubt that many Owner/Operators work under considerable stress. Sometimes this stress is constructive because we are excited and challenged by growing the business and/or making it more profitable.
But all too often, it comes about because events just overtake us and we find ourselves fighting off one alligator just to get attacked by another. This stress is not healthy or helpful. It leads to all sorts of physical upsets and is also often damaging to your relationships. 
C2.3.4 Optimise100: Time Frame & Scheduling
At the outset, we said that Profit doubling could happen in 100 days. How are your Project Management skills? Just how long it takes depends on several things: Project Management and the Profit Makeover Firstly, and importantly, will be the speed at which you can address the separate activities that are listed in this document. […]
What Parkinson’s Law Tells Us about Wasted Work
Northcote Parkinson, writing in 1955, semi humorously proposed his ‘law’ that “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion”. This is very true. Staff will often take as much time as is available to them to work on a project even though that might mean unnecessary embellishments. Even good staff do this because they want to seem to be busy and not slacking off. You have to learn how to judge been useful work and time-filling work. Yellow Belt