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Undercover Boss – The Lessons to Learn From the Series
Training and Development
Having just watched the last episode of the series of Undercover Boss, I think there are some key lessons that we can learn from each of the episodes. Here are my thoughts on the lessons from the series: Poor Communication Leads to Poor Performance – When a business grows it can be easy to lose ... Read more
10 Top Tips for Managing Time Effectively
Managing Yourself
We could all do with a little more time in our day. This post looks at 10 top tips for managing time effectively. We share tips like this in our time management training course. We hope you find these ones useful.
6 Tips for Influencing Effectively
Influencing
Influencing is about bringing someone around to your way of thinking. It's a powerful skill and can be used in a range of settings. In this post, we share 6 tips for influencing effectively.
Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – The Interviews
Lessons From the Apprentice
So this years series of the Apprentice is now over and the winner announced, and in order to get to the point we are now the candidates have been through the interview stage. In this stage the candidates are grilled by 4 business professionals who will scrutinise their CV’s and business plans, and in most ... Read more
Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Fast Food
Lessons From the Apprentice
A short update this week on Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice, simply because many of the mistakes and lessons are the same as previous episodes; however, there are some key lessons to draw from this weeks episode. This week the teams were tasked with putting together a fast food restaurant. They would be ... Read more
Are Great Leaders Born or Developed?
Leadership
Are leaders born? Are leaders developed? In this post I look at the debate that often comes up in our leadership skills training course and offer some thoughts on this.
Business and Leadership Lessons From The Apprentice – Smell What Sells
Lessons From the Apprentice
This weeks task was simple – take a set of products, try and sell them, find out what’s selling, re-invest your money in the moving products and sell them and so on. But it seemed that both of this week’s teams didn’t quite grasp this. For this week the teams were yet again mixed and ... Read more
Building a Personal Development Plan and Free Personal Development Planning Tools
Personal Development
One of the key things anyone should have is a personal development plan. The aim of a personal development plan is to help you to lay out your ideas of where you want to be in future and how you are going to get there. In order to build an effective personal development plan, you ... Read more
Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Biscuits
Lessons From the Apprentice
This week the teams were tasked with bringing another new product to market, this time biscuits, and it was clear that lessons from previous tasks had still not been learnt. The teams were mixed again this week with Zoe taking charge of Venture and Helen Logic. Half of the teams were sent to a development ... Read more
Business and Leadership Lessons from the Apprentice – Selling in France
Leadership, Lessons From the Apprentice, Sales and Selling
This weeks task saw the team picking British products and selling them to French retailers. After a re-jig of the teams, Lord Sugar placed Tom in charge of Logic and Susan put herself forward to be in charge of Venture. The first job of the day was to split the teams and send one half ... Read more
