This article is designed to provide advice and guidance on strategies and tactics that will make managers more attractive to current and potential employers, or to customers and clients if an entrepreneurial route is taken.
Mentoring And Coaching For Professionals
This article is designed to provide an overview of the current mentoring and coaching situation. It attempts to clarify the differences, and give providers and receivers of these services some guidance on best practices.
Successful Distance Learning Strategies
If you are considering starting a distance learning course, or are currently studying one, then this article is for you. If you are an employer, supporting a member of your staff as they prepare for, or work on, a distance learning course, then this if for you too.
Maintaining Motivation Whilst Distance Learning
If you are studying a distance learning, online, or correspondence course, aiming for a formal qualification or purely as personal development, this is for you. If you are not currently suffering from lack of motivation, this is still for you because there will come a time when your motivation level falls. If you are currently not very motivated, and your studies are suffering, then this is for you.
Preparing For Professional Examinations
Despite the gradual move away from examinations towards assignment based continuous assessment, there are still many professional qualifications that require the student to take formal, externally assessed examinations. In this article we look at how to prepare for professional examinations effectively, in a manner which will greatly increase chances of success.
Student-Teacher Relations
Your thesis is a very important step in your career and you can not treat it with disregard. Guidance is an inseparable part of your work and you should do everything in your power to establish fruitful cooperation between you and your tutor.
Creating a Study Area for Distance Learning
If you are studying a distance learning, online, or correspondence course, aiming for a formal qualification or purely as personal development, this is for you.
Strategic Planning And Resources
The article focuses on the need for resources to be available, as required, to meet the demands of the strategic plan.
Management Gurus
This article is designed to introduce relatively unknown management gurus, and their ideas, to managers and professionals in all sectors, but is aimed particularly at providing reading suggestions for those who are studying management development courses or professional qualifications, by distance learning or in the classroom, in order to develop their careers.
Managing Change and Negative Repercussions
The following article offer guidance on the most common negative repercussions faced by the leaders of change, and end with recommendations for reducing the amount and the impact of these.
Managing Information To Support Strategic Planning
Relevant and accurate information is an essential foundation stone of successful strategic planning. In this article we look at the need for leaders to implement and manage an effective process which gathers data and information that supports and enhances the strategic decision making activity.
Auditing Business Performance
As has been the case for many years now, the business environment is increasingly complex, change occurs more frequently and more rapidly, and performance levels are expected to be raised to even higher levels. Businesses are constantly searching for new strategies and techniques to help them to manage more effectively. However, there is a well established tool, with many variations, that would be of immense help to any business, yet is ignored by many. This is the performance audit.