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The 12 Ways to Engage & Retain Staff – Part 3
The 12 Ways to Engage & Retain Staff – Part 3 by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions 12 Ways to Engage & Retain Staff, Image (c) People Insight In the first blog in this series we...
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Leadership and Decision-Making
Leadership & Decision-Making by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Why are decisions and their outcomes separate? What can you do to have decisions that drive results? Read on here…....
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Raise Productivity – Build on Your Strengths, Not Your Weaknesses
Raise Productivity – Build on Your Strengths, Not Your Weaknesses by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Too often in business we focus on our business’ and staff’s weaknesses. The reasoning...
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Half Your Managers Shirk Holding People Accountable!
Half Your Managers Shirk Holding People Accountable! by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions A recent survey quoted in an article in the Harvard Business Review Blog highlighted that the...
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The Exactitude of Attitude
The Exactitude of Attitude How attitude is a good predictor of prospective employee success, and how you can identify those with the right attitude for your business. by Andrew Cooke, Growth &...
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Managing the “Peter Principle” – Developing Key Leadership & Management Skills
Managing the “Peter Principle” – Developing Key Leadership & Management Skills by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions What are the risks of poor leaders, what are the key skills and...
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Attitude vs. Aptitude
Attitude vs. Aptitude How attitude is the driver of success and how to help people succeed. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a previous article, “The Exactitude of Attitude”, we...
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Creating Peer Pressure
Creating Peer Pressure How to design and create peer pressure to align people and efforts. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Peer pressure is a useful way to get people to work together....
View ArticleUsing the Value-Price Seesaw to Make More Money
Price is what you pay, the value is what you get! – Warren Buffett Are your prices too low? Are you not getting paid enough? Do your customers do not appreciate what you do for them? Why is this? Whose...
View ArticleWhy Reducing Customer Churn is Important
How reducing customer churn can improve profit… Customer churn occurs when customers or subscribers stop doing business with a company or service It is normally described as the percentage of your...
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“Price is what you pay, value is what you get!” – Warren Buffett Are your prices too low? Are you not getting paid enough? Do your customers do not appreciate what you do for them? If so, then I have a...
View ArticleWhat Do You Think?
by Andrew Cooke, Blue Sky GPS In an interview with the New York Times, Bill Marriott, chairman of the Marriott Hotel Group, shared this useful piece of advice. He explained that as a young officer in...
View ArticleProfit From Constraints
When having less provides you with more By: Andrew Cooke, Blue Sky GPS Operating in a tight and volatile marketplace is challenging, but it is also full of opportunity. Companies often look at the...
View ArticleThe Three “A’s” for Dealing with Conflict
Attacking.Abdicating.Accountability. When dealing with conflict there are only three ways in which you, or your reports, can respond. These are attacking, abdicating and being accountable. Attacking –...
View ArticleHiring for Attitude
How attitude is a good predictor of prospective employee success, and how you can identify those with the right attitude for your business. The top challenge for CEOs according to a survey from the...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Choice
Giving greater choice does not mean more will be chosen! Most people believe that having a choice is good. The belief here is that choice gives us freedom, so if we have more choices we have more...
View ArticleHow to Cut Costs Without Drawing Blood
Six ways to use money and assets effectively When times are hard, and business is slower, harder to get, and less certain, many companies engage in slashing costs. And they go for that which is most...
View ArticleFive Strategies for Growing Successfully
Not all growth is good growth, five tips to help you ensure that growth is good Do you want to grow your business? If so, do you know how you are going to grow the business? And are you aware of the...
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