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Poop! Poop!

February 28th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

All executive group workshops are looking at how to take cost out of the business, whether these are fixed or variable.
Sharon and I were co - facilitating one of our groups on this subject last week and at supper time when we all break for half an hour, the topic of birthdays arose. I took …

The takeaway

February 22nd, 2010 by Tim Kidson

You never know when the stuff you use in your day job may be useful elsewhere.
I was in town collecting a meal on Saturday evening but they were running late.
There were two disruptive couples aged about thirty already waiting on the sofas. They were shouting, singing and one woman was climbing on top of, presumably …

Love at first sight

February 14th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

Contemporary marketing techniques can sometimes make an impact beyond our expectations.
All businesses need to be marketing all of the time, even when they are being successful. This is because both time and circumstance can change any business model in a split second.
Imagine an arrow that represents your contemporary marketing strategy. Well two of the most …

The couple

February 7th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

For SME’s including family businesses, the most powerful and groundbreaking work to generate business success often requires not just the MD, but his or her partner as well.
In one third generation business recently it was clear from the outset that the female MD was very wary of involving her husband. Yet it is at …

Of course I know who I am, don’t I?

January 30th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

Current business conditions are causing all sorts of leaders to fundamentally reassess where they stand and what they are doing with their lives.
I work with a couple in their early fifties who have been trading in the food industry for twenty years. When I asked whether they envisaged one or two of their children joining …

The learning and development myth

January 24th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

The mantra of ‘learning for life’ translates into lots of wasted time and energy for many busy executives.
At a three day convention recently I asked one CEO what sort of value she was expecting from the event. “No idea,â€� she smiled, “my HR director said that this would be good for me.â€� She followed the …

All hyped up

January 21st, 2010 by Tim Kidson

Well it is clear that if we are not all blogging, Twittering, spend the requisite number of hours per week on Linked In, scrabbling to enter every conceivable business card on Outlook, manicuring our entry on Facebook…..then we are very much second class citizens.
Do you not feel this pressure to conform? To be like …

2010? - bring it on!

December 13th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

There is so much excitement out there from so many of the businesses I have been fortunate enough to work with this past month or so. The common denominator is without doubt the attitude, demeanour and determination of the lady or the guy at the top. Without exception.
With one group we were looking at the …

Right up close

December 7th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

There is no doubt that we all have to get CLOSER to our customers or clients than ever before because that’s what differentiation boils down to.
Was a time when you could deliver the training or consultancy and just be satisfied to have done a solid days work. Not anymore. Trainers, consultants and speakers are ten …

Hidden Treasure

November 27th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

The amount of talent already on the payroll of organisations almost always exceeds the amount that is deployed.
Much of my work recently has been to do with drilling down to find how existing people in organisations can do things differently, think differently or behave differently. In other words how do we get more value from …