Key Interpersonal Skills
Key Interpersonal Skills for Managers (Part3)
A second group of important interpersonal skills for managers come under the heading of INNOVATING BEHAVIOURS. These are skills that develop a positive, forward thinking, and learning organisation. Innovative Behaviours Creating an Open Environment/ensuring Multilateral Communication – This skills is about facilitating organisational communication and making sure that there are the appropriate mechanisms for people [...]
Key Interpersonal Skills for Managers (Part 2)
Key Interpersonal Skills for Managers (Part 2) Supporting Behaviours continued. Supporting behaviours are the most vital interpersonal skills for managers as they are key to motivating staff and making them want to work hard for themselves and the organisation. These so-called “soft skills” are some of the very hardest to develop for some managers involving, [...]
Key Interpersonal Skills -for Managers (Part 1)
All managers at whatever level in the organisation from the most junior with responsibility for a few staff to the person at the top responsible for everyone’s wellbeing and effectiveness need some key interpersonal skills to help their staff to grow and learn as well as develop their own skills. The goal is to make [...]
Time Management
Time Management Thoughts Part 2
Priority
Time available should be allocated to tasks in order of priority. Other wise you tend to spend more time in amounts inversely proportional to the importance of the task. (Parkinson’s 2nd Law) Routine tasks of low value to overall objectives should be minimised, consolidated, delegated, or eliminated to all extent possible.
Probability of things actually happening
The probability of an intended result actually happening increased directly with the systematic effort directed towards that goal’
Deadlines
Imposing deadlines and exercising self discipline in keeping to them, helps overcome indecision and procrastination. Also look into whether you can outsource parts of your business to external agencies such as shipping companies to ensure all necessary tasks are carried out in time. [Read More...]
Time Management Thoughts Part 1-Equal Distribution
No one has enough time, but everyone has all there is. This is the great paradox of time. Time is the one resource that is equally distributed to all
Time Management – the Imperative
Irreplaceable and irretrievable- time is the most critical of resources. The ability to organise and manage time is an imperative, for without it nothing els can be managed
Anticipation
Anticipatory action is generally more effective than remedial action. Assume that if anything can go wrong it will. (Murphy’s Law0
Planning
The great majority of problems arise from action without thought. Every hour spent in effective planning g saves three to four in execution and achieves better results. By failing to plan you are planning to fail. [Read More...]
Psychology explained
Psychotherapy and Counselling
Psychotherapy or counselling is a form of treatment used by psychologists which is designed to improve the patient’s mental health. The method involves creating a relationship between the therapist and the patient and then using mainly talking therapy in the form of regular conversations, although other methods such as music, art and role-play may be [...]
Picoeconomics
In the early 1900s, George W. Ainslie, a psychologist, psychiatrist and behavioural economist from America, developed the theory of picoeconomics. Where microeconomics is used to describe the negotiation for resources between individuals, picoeconomics (or micro-micro-economics) describes a similar process but within an individual himself, helping define different aspects of his behaviour. This is shown in [...]
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud was a nineteenth century neurologist who was born in Austria in 1856, and is best known for developing psychoanalysis, also known as Freudian psychology. Psychoanalysis is mainly about human behaviour and can be divided into three areas – it’s a method of investigation into the human mind and the way it works, it’s [...]
About Psychology
Psychology is the study of the human mind and behaviour. Practitioners of psychology are called psychologists, and whilst not medically trained like psychiatrists, have to undergo many years of training. The word comes from the Greek for soul or mind, and study. The main role of the psychologist is to treat the patient by analysing [...]
Business Training
Train to be a small business book keeper online – and off
As a Book Keeper you are responsible for keeping accurate records of a small or medium sized business. Armed with the very best account software such as perhaps QuickBooks for mac any wannabe small business employee could definitely train themselves up to become a viable self-employed Book keeper. It’s definitely worth becoming “QuickBooks certified”. You can study alongside your everyday job and take things at your own pace. The choice exists between becoming a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, QuickBooks Point of Sale (POS) or QuickBooks Advanced expert. After your training online, you will be awarded a certificate which will be very useful in drumming up future work as a freelance Book keeper.
If you’re a dedicated “number cruncher” you’ll already have a leaning toward becoming a Book Keeper or eventually an Accountant. Indeed it will definitely help if you know an Accountant and can turn to them for help and advice. As a Book keeper you will need a combination of education and experience. If you are organised and methodical it will help also, but to study in your spare time, you might think of enrolling at a night school or daytime business college.
Perhaps a two-year office administration course would be a good idea or you could study Payroll and Bookkeeping and of course accounting? It is possible to study from home – especially if you are in no great rush, but if you do study alone account software and payroll software will prove invaluable. QuickBooks Online is cloud based which means you can update your studies from anywhere and at anytime!