Tag: Productivity

Leadership & management training – an expensive waste of time?

Training is perceived as an expensive luxury, and often the first cost to be cut when cash flow gets tough. The familiar phrase Training is a Luxury Not a Necessity may strike a chord with many business owners who have seen staff return from the latest fad course, pumped up from the great stuff they’ve learned, only to end up in the routine drudgery of their day job – finding nothing has changed in the business and the training manual lost for ever in the dust of the bottom shelf.training 1

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THE PRODUCTIVITY MYTH BUSTER

We hear so much about improving our productivity and managing our time better, but do you, as a Business Owner or Manager really understand what productivity is?

In the “olden days” back in the 20th Century, productivity was still a true measure of the value we reaped from our financial investments into the company. Payroll and Salary are normally the greatest cost to the business and yet as a nation we fail miserably to monitor the value our employees are PRODUCING for our money.

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