Within Business Essentials, aka Business 101, you’ll find the key skills you need to know to succeed in business – whether you’re in management or not. We all need to know key soft skills, as well as technical and functional skills relevant to the specific roles we play – whether that’s marketing, operations, project management or something else entirely.
Learn about fundamental communication skills, the basics of analytical decision making, and how to succeed in marketing and sales (even if you’re not formally in marketing or sales!). Bring business essentials all together with practice and problem solving exercises and a strategic action plan.
Which would you rather have? A three-inch binder with every single thing you could possibly need to know in detailed spreadsheets, flow charts and documentation? Or a one-page cheatsheet that gives you critical information to get done exactly what you need to do? I don’t know about you, but 99% of the time, I choose…
The importance of checklists, processes or systems is to make your work and life easier, not to be burdensome or slow you down.
A few weeks ago, we unexpectedly found out that my younger son needed surgery. This entailed a quick, but non-urgent trip to a specialist. The specialist’s office has new patient paperwork online to download, complete and bring to your first appointment. Fantastic! I was excited to be able to complete the paperwork before sitting in…
Do you know how to create an action plan? Do you need to? Have you ever found yourself saying any of these things? “It’s all in my head.” “I forgot about that.” “No one can do it except me.” “I don’t know what to do next.” Most of us have. The most common conversation I…
When was the last time you conducted You do conduct post-mortem for your projects (both personal and professional), don’t you? What is a post-mortem, you ask? Great question A post-mortem is simply, “an analysis or discussion of an event held soon after it has occurred” (If post-mortem sounds to high-brow for you – or reminds…