Planting seeds

To fully appreciate the joys of my garden the acts of planting, pruning and weeding takes place.  Our minds are no different.  If our thoughts are seeds, what are you planting?  If our subsequent thoughts are nutrients how are things growing, and if it's not blooming as you'd expect then maybe it's time to check your beliefs.

When and How to Delegate

This comprehensive article is specifically aimed at new sales managers, however it's always good to ask ourselves if we're delegating enough / appropriately / well.

Plus it's worth remembering the relationship between trust and delegation  - what message is your delegation style giving out?

New Sales Managers : When and How to Delegate

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Aim High

Where you’re currently aiming for determines who you’ll become.

Keeping Commitments

How often do you keep commitments that you make to others?  Saying yes when you know you won’t, or saying yes to a deadline knowing you can’t make that.  Are we even concious that we’ve just made a commitment - a promise if you like.  And then we sometimes wonder why people chase us, send reminder emails or worse still begin to not believe us.

How often do you keep the ones you make to yourself.  For me I’ve found the harder part was keeping those I’d made to me.  So I’ve been working on improving that.  I now find myself thinking - is this a commitment or an ideal, a promise or a maybe. 

Focus on this for a couple of weeks and notice what changes for you.