Reduce Your ADVERTISING Costs  You can waste a lot of time and money if you use inappropriate advertising. When business is good it pays to advertise.  When business is bad you’ve got to advertise. Target your messages to specific groups of clients and potential clients and try to measure returns on your advertising investments. Five…

  Grow with your CUSTOMERS Today’s competition favours the swift and keen.           Maintain a good service to your regular clients and your business could grow as they grow.           Modern management practices concentrate on improving performance. We should hear more about satisfying our customers.          A handful of tips to help…

  Strategic PLANNING It takes discipline, leadership and practice – not inspiration  – to become a change agent.          People leaders must focus on basic functions to bring about changes in an organisation such as Strategic Planning, Organising, Directing, Controlling, Communicating and Motivation.         Strategic planning is essential and is the starting…

  Improve Your CAREER Prospects If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.           People leaders who aim to earn promotion will need to polish their skills so they become indispensable. Here’s a handful of tips to remind you of some of the key areas to help you achieve a promotion * Set high…

Restructuring YOUR Business  Change is a continuing process, not a goal, a constant journey, not a destination.           Managers were advised to be fair, consistent, insistent, and persistent. But today a good manager is a team leader, a good communicator, a coordinator, a facilitator, and a mentor. Times have changed. A handful of tips to…

Rolling On – The Best Handful of Tips 181- REPORT & HELPDEX titles ( 1-150) 500 Handful of Tips titles have been posted We aim to give you the five best tips on a series of communication, training, careers and managing topics. We give you practical tips, not theory.             Where do they come from?…

  – Stimulating FOOD PRODUCTION This is my 500th blog. I need a special topic. “With the growing world population increased food production is essential. It can help reduce wars because people with full bellies don’t fight.”           When I finished secondary school in 1942 there were less than two billion people on this earth.…

  How to Solve PROBLEMS  Like a leaking ship, problems tend to get bigger if they are not dealt with promptly. Examine all aspects of a problem quickly in an effort to find a rapid solution.           If you are ambitious learn the skills to solve problems. People who can solve problems are in great…

  Recipe for SUCCESS Please grant me –                   the spark to imagine                   the energy to enthuse                   the daring to innovate                   the discipline to plan    …

COMMUNICATION Tips To get your ideas accepted by people keep to the basic communication skills. These skills are simple but are often forgotten. Here are some reminders. Five ways to improve your communication skills * How we learn           We learn best by doing things and by seeing things being done. We learn least by…