Keeping going and maintaining motivation, effort and activity can often be difficult. We work with clients in a number of areas to help to maintain their initiative.
Time Management
All people can be more
effective if they consider their working habits and seek to improve them.
We are not tied to any particular time-management diary system, nor do we
expect clients to change their entire lives. Rather we seek to understand
how activities might be improved often through role
modelling, benchmarking and group discussion. We seek to present
what others have discovered works effectively in managing their own busy
lives and then seek to see what of these might be directly applicable to
participants. In this way we have worked with sales teams, managers,
consultants, Macmillan nurses and accountants. Often an element of time
and personal management is built into development programs.
Stress Management
All of us at some time
feel that the pressures and demands placed on us are becoming difficult.
This is especially so for people in exposed positions, in sales, business
presenters and so on. Some of our associates are trained counsellors, therapists and NLP trainers but they seek to incorporate this into
their work with business people rather than in therapeutic practice. There
are many techniques that can help us all to be able to work and play
better, achieve some balance and enjoyment from our work and improve our
relationships with others. Often, some psychometric
profiling can help individuals to come to understand themselves and
to get things back into perspective. Managers and supervisors often need
to understand the behaviours of staff and recognise and deal with early
difficulties. We do not, however, encourage our clients to move beyond
this stage. When real psychosis or difficulties may be present it is
better to seek expert intervention.
Problem Solving
Managers, consultants, sales people and any project manager will benefit from knowledge of the problem solving process and the many techniques which are available. The skill of decision making is to have the confidence that all avenues have been properly explored and that the decision is based on the best information and logical processes that are available. Techniques such as why-why, force field, delphi, brainstorming, gantt charting, six hats, fishbone, nominal group and visualisation are all well known approaches to problem solving and decision making. As well as training in this, we have worked with groups to help them to plan and to problem solve particular issues. We have also worked with research students, sales teams, conference developers, business
planners and training groups.
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