5 Mistakes That Kill Your Case Studies – And What To Do About Them
Writing case studies takes time and effort. When you get them right, you build your credibility and win more work. When you get them wrong, you waste precious time, and worse of all, you can undermine your brand. Read on to discover the simple mistakes to avoid. Short term, reactive thinking Short term reactive thinking…
Making other people look good: what improv teaches us about teamwork
In my spare time I can be found ‘making silly stuff up’ with improvised comedy group Classic Andy. What began as a creative and fun hobby a couple of years ago has taught me as much about truly effective teamwork as any management course or corporate role could. Here’s why… Techniques from improvised comedy have already made…
Be Productive – Tips to Maintain Your Focus
One of the best tips I ever learned was to be able to recognise when you lose focus. And of course if you do this quickly then you lose less time before you get back on track. If we don’t notice our distractions we can lose a lot of our planned productive time on lower…
Entrepreneur, Mother or Lover? – 6 Tips to getting closer to what you really want!
Getting a balance & time for us is often one of the hardest things to do. Now you may not like what I am about to say, BUT if you can’t get the balance its something that you are doing or not doing, a way you are feeling about yourself, and restricting your success as…
Sarah Dillingham, Case Study Ninja
Sarah Dillingham In 2015, Sarah identified an ongoing challenge within professional services and public sector organisations to create, manage and publish case studies, so she developed a software platform and service offering to tackle this. Beta testing for CastStudyNinja subsequently began in January 2016 and officially launched on June 30th, 2016. Sarah has specialised as…
Be Productive – Take Control of Your Inbox
THE EMAIL PROBLEM It has happened to us all. We have a plan for the day, we check our email first and the next thing we know its mid-morning or worse still lunchtime! Our intentions are good, “I’ll just clear my Inbox before I start and then I will feel more organised”. But of course…
How To Be More Successful By Improving Your Fitness
Are you an entrepreneur, a student, or have a demanding job? Do you feel like you’re always on the go, stressed out, and need more hours in the day? No matter what it is we’re trying to achieve – whether it’s career progression, passing exams or being more organised at home – there’s one thing…
Drawing your way to organisational improvement – five reasons to get more creative
‘Our colleagues get scared when we bring out the Post-it notes’. This comment from a recent client sums up the dread that many people feel about the use of ‘creative’ techniques within the workplace. It’s a real shame as moving beyond the traditional flipchart and bullet points approach can free up people’s minds, encourage innovation and vastly…
Be Productive – Learn to Say No!
By Moira Dunne During my first job as a consultant, my client told me that I had the ability to say no while making other people feel good about it. I think it was a compliment! It wasn’t something I planned but when I analysed my approach I realised I was protecting my work time…
Where did you say your office was? From employee to entrepreneur- How to build your entrepreneurial identity
If you’ve been brave enough to make the leap from employee to entrepreneur, you may have suddenly found yourself having to rebuild ‘brand you’. You and everybody else knows you are a great employee, but does your employee brand automatically transfer to the new entrepreneurial you? For most of us going from large established organisations…