Calling all Consultants, Trainers, Mentors, Business Advisers and Marketing Specialists An invitation to join an innovative project that may take less than 30 minutes of your time and provide you with links to your site and significant promotion for you and your business, for months and years to come.This is a no cost crowd source project Background Some time ago I created a set of PowerPoint slides of a wide range of management (change, leadership etc) models, theories and ideas as a … [Read more...] about Calling all Consultants, Trainers, Mentors, Business Advisers
Housekeeping Infection Control Checklist
Housekeeping Infection Control Checklist On this weeks The Food Inspector on BBC1, we were shown even more reasons to be careful about the food that we eat & buy.The management of infections and illness can also be helped by the cleaning of public and private areas in a range of establishments, especially where food is either purchased or consumed.Ensure appropriate personal protective clothing is worn Clean all furniture and fittings with General Purpose Detergent Clean … [Read more...] about Housekeeping Infection Control Checklist
Top 5 Payroll Mistakes | Learn How to Avoid Them Now
Learn How to Avoid The Top 5 Payroll Mistakes Mistakes in payroll can be embarrassing and costly for small companies – as well as demoralising for their workforce. Small firms can ill afford to pay penalties for sloppy procedures. Many employees do not immediately check their payslips so it is important that errors are prevented before it is too late. Nobody wants to confront an angry or frustrated employee or a tax bill at the end of the year. If your company has not outsourced payroll to an … [Read more...] about Top 5 Payroll Mistakes | Learn How to Avoid Them Now
how-to-hyperlink.avi
A short video how to make a link active in an ecademy blog … [Read more...] about how-to-hyperlink.avi
Is twitter a waste of time?
Is twitter a waste of time? Is it? Sure there are people that use twitter in very diverse ways - and that is a good thing. I know many people that have multiple accounts, some for "business" others for "very personal" uses. But the stats show that a significant percentage of users use twitter for product & service research.So are you talking about what you had for breakfast or your products?But twitter is more than just a marketing channel...Learning It is clear from this data … [Read more...] about Is twitter a waste of time?
Evan Carmichael’s Top 100 Productivity Experts Feb 2012
RapidBI in Evan Carmichael's Top 100 Productivity Experts Many of you may know Evan Carmichael’s site. Using a range of tools Evan measures and publishes top blogs and tweeters on a range of business related topics.I am pleased to say that @RapidBI is increasing in the top 50. In this list we have increased from #36 to #25 - who knows how or why!!We include only the top 50 here, It's a great list to follow, with some great tweeps here.February 2012 Top 100 Productivity … [Read more...] about Evan Carmichael’s Top 100 Productivity Experts Feb 2012
Social media & social business in small enterprises
Social media & social business in small enterprisesOne of the major changes under way in very large and global businesses is the adoption of collaboration tools. Often these are social media based software tools which allow people from different business units or divisions to collaborate with others.In an organisation which is not in competition with other divisions this makes sense, but what about small businesses?Many of us in “micro businesses” collaborate on projects and … [Read more...] about Social media & social business in small enterprises
Top Management Tweeters – Feb 2012
RapidBI in top 100 Tweeters on Management Many of you may know Evan Carmichael’s site, Evan has a goal of "Helping Brands Connect to Entrepreneurs", and his site is a gold mine of who's who in the business world.Using a range of tools Evan measures and publishes top blogs and tweeters on a range of business related topics.I am pleased to say that @RapidBI is again mentioned in this important and influential list.If you want to know "what is "hot" and what is not, then follow some of … [Read more...] about Top Management Tweeters – Feb 2012
Collaboration, Management & Leadership for change in any business
Collaboration, Management & Leadership for Change is the backbone of any successful business. CollaborationIncreasingly in business we need people to collaborate, indeed people WANT to collaborate, but are we giving them the tools for the job. Technology exists but... As the technology landscape changes, so do the tools and ways of working. The days of the “corporate issued” laptop are coming to an end as people want to use the devices they feel most comfortable with. That means … [Read more...] about Collaboration, Management & Leadership for change in any business
The structure of high performance teams
The Structure of High Performance Teams Teams – we all know that increasingly organisations are moving from fixed functions, to project based dynamic teams. What is it in the structure of high performance teams that makes the difference?This graphic outlines an interesting 10 step approach to innovating team structures.is it really – ready-aim-fire-adjust or ready-aim-adjust-fire I suppose it depends if you are striving for a “right first time” strategy or not … [Read more...] about The structure of high performance teams
5 mistakes made by many new leaders
5 Mistakes Made By New LeadersWe are all new to management & leadership at some time, what is interesting and disappointing is that often its the same mistakes that are made. When appointing new leaders for the first time, it is up to CEO’s and HR to ensure people are trained, mentored & supported to avoid these predictable and potentially costly mistakes.Evan Carmichael has done a valuable job by highlighting these key points in this easy to read … [Read more...] about 5 mistakes made by many new leaders
Today’s thoughts February 10, 2012
car crash carnage in ecademy So what happenedThis morning I woke to see that only one person in the top 20 actually improved their score - Penny Power - the other 19 have dropped (inc Thomas to #2 again)Has the scoring mechanism changed? mmm strange things happeningMike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog:Ecademy or LinkedIn - which is better for business? Ecademy or LinkedIn - which is better for business? I know that ecademy is loved by its members, unfortunately many of us/you … [Read more...] about Today’s thoughts February 10, 2012
Second month running RapidBI in top 100 Tweeters on Human Resources #HR #CIPD
RapidBI in top 100 Tweeters on Human Resources - again! Many of you may know Evan Carmichael’s site. Using a range of tools Evan measures and publishes top blogs and tweeters on a range of business related topics.His current one is the top 100 tweeters on human resources. And I am proud to say that @RapidBI is not only in the top 100, but we are number 4! last month we were number 5.Looking at the list (only very quickly) I can see quite a few UK based tweeps here – keep flying the … [Read more...] about Second month running RapidBI in top 100 Tweeters on Human Resources #HR #CIPD
What makes a small business sink or swim
With an increasing percentage of the workforce now being employed in smaller businesses, SME’s and owner managed businesses are an increasingly important factor in any modern economy. Unfortunately not all start-ups or smaller business survive beyond 4 years of operation.So what is the difference between success & failure? … [Read more...] about What makes a small business sink or swim
ecademy or linkedin which is better for business
Ecademy or LinkedIn - which is better for business? I know that ecademy is loved by its members, unfortunately many of us/you dismiss LinkedIn as being for CV or recruitment, but not for doing business.Less than 2 weeks ago I simultaneously places an advert in marketplace and posted in LinkedIn about a webinar I was running.The content was almost identical with one exception - the link.On ecademy the view rate was listed as 372, however suffice to say we had over 300 registrations … [Read more...] about ecademy or linkedin which is better for business
How to improve your meetings
How to improve your meetings It does not matter if we work for small or large firms, the one sure guarantee is that part of our role involves participating in meetings. The more senior we become, the more meetings we attend.The webinar we ran today reminded me of the wasted time that many of us endure during ineffective and poorly planned events.This graphic is a great reminder of some of the key factors that can help us me more effective in our communications. … [Read more...] about How to improve your meetings
Today’s thoughts February 9, 2012
Content..content..content - oh and some marketing too Content..content..content - oh and some marketing too There is no getting away from the fact that content sells, but not just any old content. The days of the "direct sell" are rapidly passing, this means an increasing challenge for small businesses and marketing teams on tight budgets.On the plus side it is low cost getting content to market, BUT it does take time, time many people do not believe they have.Mike … [Read more...] about Today’s thoughts February 9, 2012
Today’s thoughts February 8, 2012
Goodbye IT - hello products that work Goodbye IT - hello products that work With so many people fed-up of big software solutions that just are too clunky and don't do easily what people want, the IT world is moving.With Apple dropping support & products for the film & media industry, they are now clearly focused on the end user experience - the question is how quickly will the "big boys" catch on?Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog:How Blogging can Increase Sales How Blogging … [Read more...] about Today’s thoughts February 8, 2012
Today’s thoughts February 7, 2012
Psychology, statistics, research & bad Science Psychology, Statistics, Research & Bad Science We have all seen the adverts - 9/10 cats - n=73 as the sample group for a major hair care product TV & magazine advertising campaign. So why do so many firms use bad science? How widespread is this behaviour?Apparently 76.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot, and 18% in the pub/ coffee shop after the initial decision...Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog:What are the … [Read more...] about Today’s thoughts February 7, 2012
Today’s thoughts February 6, 2012
MBTI - the Gender Differences in Type MBTI - the gender differences in Type While this graphic uses US based data, from memory there is little variance between US & UK gender data.The interesting thing here is that fact that most are balanced, with the exception of Thinking/ feeling. This is interesting as EQ (Emotional Intelligence) is becoming increasingly important in the business world, this could mean that men may find certain things increasingly challenging in the traditional … [Read more...] about Today’s thoughts February 6, 2012
