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Extract from David Parmenter’s Working Guide: The hidden costs of reorganisations and downsizing
Contrary to common advice do not act quickly to remove staff as you probably don’t know enough at the moment. The companies that emerged from the 2007-08 crisis in the strongest shape relied less on layoffs to cut costs and leaned more on operational […]
Extracted from Winning Leadership: A Model on Leadership For The Millennial Manager – Toolkit (120 page PDF whitepaper + e-templates)
15 skills successful leaders need to master
As a leader, there are fifteen leadership skills to master, and this mastery can be achieved by all leaders who are committed to learning and have a mentor or two supporting them. […]
Extracted from Winning Leadership: A Model on Leadership For The Millennial Manager – Toolkit (120 page PDF whitepaper + e-templates)
As a result of a leadership think tank it was pointed out that it is imperative to separate those leadership behaviour traits that need to be in your DNA from those skills that can be learnt. In the […]
There are many reasons why Takeovers or Mergers (TOMs) go wrong. Set out below are some of the common ones. This is an extract from David Parmenter’s working guide on What You Need to Know Before Undertaking a Takeover or Merger. There are 10 reasons why your takeover maybe a lemon:
Synergy Calculations Are Totally Flawed
Loss […]
Extracted from Winning Leadership: A Model on Leadership For The Millennial Manager – Toolkit (120 page PDF whitepaper + e-templates)
10 smarter work habits in a post COVID 19 world:
Controlling the wild beast — your email
Eat a frog every morning
Have a Blue Sky Friday every week
Have a cluster of mentors
Ways to save time […]
Contrary to common advice do not act quickly to remove staff as you probably don’t know enough at the moment. The companies that emerged from the 2007-08 crisis in the strongest shape relied less on layoffs to cut costs and leaned more on operational improvements. That’s because layoffs aren’t just harmful to workers; they’re costly […]
Extract from David Parmenter’s Working Guide: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Choosing an organisation and a life partner have much in common. During the courtship both parties are on best behaviour, all adverse behaviour traits are well disguised. Promises are made, and even lies told, to give the impression that in the future, life […]
These three different observations led me to believe that time management, trust and training were at the core of delegation. Delegation being the “transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from one person to another with the former retaining accountability of the outcome” as described in a medical manual.
Time management
is so important as […]
In the Nursing Council of New Zealand’s guidelines on delegation there are five rules which I would like to share with you.
Right activity – here the manager needs to ensure that the activity needs to be done now by the team. Before this decision the manager should ask, “Could this activity be abandoned?” and […]
30+ Smarter Ways to Work
Around the world, teams are challenging old out of date work methods “other people’s thinking” as Steve Jobs called it, and replacing
this thinking with twenty-first-century smarter work methods. This working guide covers; how to Post-it reengineer, scrum meetings, Kanban boards, lean management techniques, and Toyota’s 14 management principles. This guide also explores some of the […]
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