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I have a passion for running businesses and in turn have looked into the impact of psychology on the success of a business. You'd be surprised how a mental state of mind can affect the success (or not) of your business. This site is a log of my thoughts, advice and general business and psychology tips. I hope you find it useful. If you think you have something to contribute or would like to guest post please contact me via the contact page.

Key Interpersonal Skills

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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...]

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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...]

General Business Advice

Contracting VS Permanent

The idea of becoming a contractor can be pretty scary to start off with, as you have a lot more responsibilities to take on in order to make sure that your business is successful. But at a time when employee benefits are being reduced, final salary pensions are disappearing and salaries are being dramatically cut [...]

Take care of business yourself

When you work for a big company, you get used to sending stuff off to different departments – sending expenses to the finance department, phoning the IT department for technical assistance, calling on the marketing department for help with events and conferences. However, if you move to starting your own business, you’ll soon realise that [...]

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Psychotherapy and Counselling

March 19, 2011 By admin

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 [...]

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Picoeconomics

March 1, 2011 By admin

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 [...]

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Freud and Psychoanalysis

February 24, 2011 By admin

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 [...]

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About Psychology

February 19, 2011 By admin

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 [...]

Staffing and Employee Advice

How to access your pension savings

Whether you are a salaried employee or you work for yourself, you’ll no doubt be aware of the need to be putting some of your salary into a pension fund. Depending on your company, there may be a company pension fund that you can pay contributions into.

However, if that is not an option you can have a personal pension plan or a Self-Invested Personal Pension – where it’s up to you to decide where your pension savings should be invested. With a SIPP you have a fund that you can pay into but not access until you are aged 55 or over. You can choose where to invest the money that is held within your SIPP and change this at any time.

Whatever pension fund you have been paying into, as you approach retirement, you need to decide how to access the pension savings you have accumulated over the years. Most people choose to buy an annuity with their pension savings – to provide them with a guaranteed income for the rest of their lives.

It is also possible to draw income directly from your pension fund, while leaving the rest invested, but the majority of people take the annuity option.

Either way, you can take up to 25% of your pension savings as a cash lump sum, tax-free, when you reach the age of retirement.

There is information on the different types of annuities at agepartnership.co.uk. It is worth shopping around to find the best annuity rates on the market – they change all the time, and the company that holds your pension savings may not necessarily offer you the best deal.

You’ll find some great annuities at Age Partnership, a company that specialises in financial services for the over 55s. There are many different options to consider when setting up an annuity such as how often you receive payments, whether it will be adjusted to reflect rises in inflation or fixed, and whether it is for you alone, or for you and a spouse to receive payments. You’ll find all the information you need on the Age Partnership website.

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!

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