Thought For Your Business | Mel Clifford - Stories of the Day

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Selection of Poetry composed by Mel Clifford. Additional poems kindly provided with the permission of the authors.

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Never Lose the Child Within - Your World of Business.

What you create in your life will either support you or hinder you in what you want to achieve. Like the culture you create and support within your organisation, it can make the Company great or destroy it – everyone has a part to play including you. Why do we lose the child within us when we enter the world of Business?

Six Questions about Organisational Culture

Q What is organisational culture?

A What gets honoured in the organisation gets delivered

Q Who creates organisational culture?

A You do

Q How does organisational culture get implemented?

A By the behaviours of individuals in the organisation

Q How do you change organisational culture?

A Change your behaviours

Q Who changes organisational [...]

CEO’s Undercover –What a Joke

Get Real

Have you been watching these TV programmes about CEO’s or MD’s of organisations who go undercover and work alongside their employees for one week to find out what’s wrong in the Company? After the week they go home and their partners greet them with something like “oh darling how was it [...]

What are your employees complaining about?

Listen and Learn

Just very recently while I was shopping I overheard in two different supermarkets employees giving out to each other about their working conditions. On one occasion I had to interrupt their discussion to ask for directions to locate a product which, I was informed it’s over there. Not impressed [...]

What makes amazing teamwork?

Better Than The Rest

When it actually comes down to it knowing and doing are miles apart. Reading about teamwork, knowing the right qualities, attributes and skills required is very different to being able to put these skills into practice. One finds, elements like those who want the individual glory rather than the [...]

Influencing - is it a position or a skill?

Share Your Vision Not Your Comands

People are influenced by many things, in business it is often by a great vision or how others behave and act towards you. How the leadership behave and encourage you to develop and grow within your role. One can also be influenced by treats, fear and the [...]

Organisational Culture

Leadership Role

What gets honoured in a country gets created –Plato

Never a truer word, what gets honoured in a Company also gets created. Organisational culture is created by those in leadership roles. Their behaviours and attitude reflects on what will happen in a business and how employees, clients and suppliers are [...]

The Power of a Few Chosen Words

Individuals Need Individual Words

When one says I don’t mean to criticise you but ………they are actually criticising you and not what should be addressed and that is the actual action, project or behaviour not the person.

When a manager uses the words the Company feels that you are ……….who is this person [...]

Curriculum Vitae (CV) Resume - Make it STANDOUT

Boring

Something Different

I have written recently several posts on developing your own Curriculum Vitae (CV) – Resume and the most important thing is that it standouts out from the normal boring two page formats that HR professionals seem to demand. I just read a blog written by Seth Godin which I [...]

Is your Company listening?

Answers are not in here

On the 2nd December I wrote about the Inner You and the importance of listening to those voices within. The key is to really listen and find those voices that are hidden that you don’t pay attention to because you are too busy listening to the usual self.

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