Being under pressure at work is a reality for most of us today. Sometimes it might feel like you are working in a pressure cooker where you aren’t sure where the next challenge will appear from. Today, we discuss how best to manage and use pressure to your advantage in the workplace to gain peak team performance. A model …
Meetings, meetings and more meetings: a simple guide to leading productive meetings
Published in Press & Journal – Your Job Section This week Karran Bonner discusses how to get the best out of your meetings to maximise productivity and actions. How often have you had a meeting that has felt like a complete waste of time? You leave having talked about the same old issues and don’t feel like anything has been …
Email Communication: How can you cut out the noise of your inbox and be more productive every day?
This week Karran Bonner helps you to take control of your inbox with some top tips. Start your work day before you open your inbox So many of my clients talk about drowning in emails. Have you ever tried taking the first half hour of your day to fully plan out: What three things do you want to achieve today? …
How can positivity in the workplace help to grow your organisation?
As you may gather from the name of my organisation, Brightside, positivity is a focal part of the work that I help companies with. Looking for the opportunities instead of the obstacles in life opens up a different perspective. Looking at solutions instead of problems has been a skill that I have learned and which has helped me to forge …
How do Google do it?
In this week’s article, Karran Bonner (Brightside) examines how Google have built one of the fastest growing empires of the digital age and discovers how we could all develop our own version of the Google success story. Google’s success story is fascinating. Starting out as a small team working out of a garage conversion to now employing over 40,000 people …