Taking Time to Manage Your Most Precious Resource As another New Year dawn’s people naturally start to assess their lives, to develop new goals and resolutions and they particularly look at how they spend and allocate their most precious resource, their time. Particularly relevant in the current environment where everyone seems to working harder and longer with less recourses, the danger i... more

How do I identify my network? In last months Networking For Success article we examined the concept of Networking and saw how as new and existing businesses, we can use networking to develop our business. Now we know what networking is, we need to be able to identify our network and how we can be of mutual benefit to each other. Various studies have shown, that by the time a person has ... more

Part 1; What is Stress? At present we are living in very stressful times; changes in society, advancements in technology and communication devices and the external environment all have an effect on the amount of stress we feel and experience in our everyday lives. One place where greater exposure to stress is being noticed is in the workplace. We all have a personal responsibility to be... more

In today’s environment, all members of staff are part of the sales team. Each person has a responsibility and a role to sell and to be thinking of new sources of sales. In this article we outline some tips to boost your confidence when trying to source new build leads for your organisation. Tip number 1: Get serious! Make a decision to go all the way to the top of your field. Make a decisio... more

What is Networking? Networking is vital for business and personal success. Everyone needs to network: business owners, employees, job seekers. But how can you get the most of out networking, and ensure that it is enabling you to achieve your goals? In this series of three articles we are going to examine the principles of networking and how you can get the most out of the networking you do. ... more

There are many people that feel being a leader is about taking charge, having authority or a position to tell others what to do or to win influence over others because of self accomplishment. That isn’t leadership, its power and they are two very different things. If you want to be seen as a leader, to stand out or emerge as a leader in your work or life, this will more than likely stem more f... more

Recently Innovo Training & Development commissioned the Ulster Business School (through the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher scheme) to complete ‘A Market Analysis of Technology Based Learning in Ireland’. This article shares some of the research findings in relation to e-learning and specifically blended learning approaches to training i.e. using a mix of traditional classroom based... more

Traditionally, in challenging economic times, all businesses come under pressure to cut costs and reduce expenses. Ways to reduce costs within the organisation include restructuring the business through redundancies, and cutting budgets in areas such as training and marketing. A recent survey conducted by the CIPD of UK and Irish firms indicates that on average companies have reduced their ann... more

When accomplished effectively Executive Coaching can measurably improve the business performance and professional growth of senior executives. What Is Executive Coaching? Executive Coaching is an executive development strategy that builds leadership and management strength. Executive coaching leverages existing strengths to help people become more successful in their current role, as well as t... more

In a recent UK survey of 430 SME’s completed by Grant Thornthon ‘risk-taking’ and ‘vision’ rank bottom of the list of 18 leadership attributes that distinguish leaders in the modern business world. Yet when asked what attributes they would like to develop as leaders, vision and risk-taking were ranked as highly desirable. In the leadership training courses we run we always ask part... more

I attended a pre-Christmas function at which the BBC Apprentice star Sir Alan Sugar was guest of honour. Sir Alan was interviewed after lunch and amongst the questions put to him included a reference to what he felt were his greatest strengths; “I’m a sales-man, simple as that. It took me until my mid twenties to realise what I was good at. If I’d discovered this in my teenage years I’d... more

In Ireland in the present economic climate redundancy announcements are depressingly regular. While the immediate sympathy is for the person who has become unexpectedly unemployed and their families, there is also an impact on the employees who are left behind within the organisation. more

Now more than ever we need to provide leadership at all levels within an organisation. more

Goal setting gives you specific direction and an action plan for making something come to life. When we undertake a goal setting exercise we have to ask ourselves those hard questions – where am I going and how am I going to get there. However, if you want to succeed and achieve in life you need to set goals as without goals you will lack focus and direction. more

As another New Year dawn’s people naturally start to assess their lives, to develop new goals and resolutions and they particularly look at how they spend and allocate their most precious resource, their time. Particularly relevant in the current environment where everyone seems to working harder and longer with less recourses, the danger is that instead of working smarter and becoming more inn... more