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Where do you find support to resolve YOUR business challenges?
These days one thing we can rely on is that we don’t know what is around the corner.
Whether it’s the impact of the credit crunch, a takeover or merger, cost cutting or expansion into new business areas, these changes bring uncertainty and we wonder what the impact will be for our business and for us personally.
In our busy, busy lives, boundaries become blurred. Between work and home for example, with the internet and access from anywhere to our work emails, mobile phones and blackberries - unless you have a strategy in place for managing them effectively.
At work we face new challenges to keep up with the competition, deliver new products or services or the same ones in different, more cost effective ways. Perhaps we need to resolve conflict or use influence and persuasion to get things done, rather than ‘command and control’, which we may feel more comfortable with.
For leaders in today’s organisations, whose responsibility it is to show the way, facing these or other challenges can feel a daunting experience and a lonely place to be.
What is available to enable you to stay on top of the business challenges you are facing? Loved ones, friends and colleagues offer advice – their stuff, not yours, and not always what you want, though you may be interested to hear what they have to say.
 Getting over the wall What challenges are you currently facing? And how are you seeking to resolve them? What is not resolving them costing you and your business?
Coaching is a powerful experience - why not give it a try? You can find more about coaching here.
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Some interesting links:
How to be an overnight success in only 11 years – this story of writer and producer Deb Manchester demonstrates the power of focus and tenacity in achieving your goals.
Recession-proof yourself as a manager - Jennifer Churchill of the Institute of Leadership and Management offers advice on how managers can ride out the bad times and emerge from them stronger and wiser.
Items on the blog this month:
The leaders of tomorrow.
Stop worrying about your weaknesses.
HR skills for survival.
If you’re in HR and want to take time out from operational issues to develop strategies for the future, visit CoachingforHR.co.uk to see how we can support you to do this.
If there’s a particular topic you’d like to see covered in future newsletters, please let me know .
I’m wondering if you know other people who should be reading this too.
Why not forward them your copy?
Till next month,
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