Author: admin

Of course we’re all resourceful people, able to waft a hand at our smartphone and instantly connect to six supporters, or order something expensive online.

However, how often do you look around at the other people in your organisation and consider their potential?

I met with a friend last week and he shared a great story about networking. His inclusive approach assumes that all people have value and as such he realised that it wasn’t just the 3 directors who should go networking.

He asked the rest of his staff if they would be interested in attending business breakfasts and speaking events and several stepped forward, only too pleased to be able to develop themselves, meet new people and help build the business.

As a result he now has over 20 networkers in his business, which is a 7-times increase in the amount of resource out there helping the organisation to thrive.

This happy little story leads us to two helpful questions:

1) Who do you have in your business who could do more to drive growth?

2) What other untapped resources do you have under your nose?

It could be that you have products, people, time, cash, connections or friends that you’ve overlooked.

This week, go on a resource-hunt. What have you got that you’re wasting?

I’m going to look too. Starting in the biscuit tin. I bet there are some custard creams in there that need re-homing…..

We have snow today, or to be precise, more snow today. The schools are shut again and the roads are slippery. Luckily I have a writing day today, so wasn’t going anywhere, but I decided that the snow would have made me an hour late if I had been going somewhere, so I stayed in bed for an extra hour in order to delay my arrival in the study.

Good thinking eh!?

I wasn’t idle though, oh no, I didn’t want to waste my hour, so I did some thinking. I thought about the preface of the book I’m starting today and then I thought about an assignment I have to set for my delegates next month.

It was hard work, but I rose to the challenge. I could have leapt out of bed and found work to do, but no, I bravely and doggedly stayed put in the warm and exercised the old grey matter.

Thinking is essential and yet many of us crash through life at high speed, flitting from one task to the next. It’s important to pause sometimes and let our thoughts form a puddle in our heads.

I’ve always found that an hour spent thinking increases my productivity for the next few hours spent writing and so this morning, thanks to the snow, I took advantage in the theoretical slow drive to work and had quality thinking time.

When will you pause this week and find some thinking time for yourself?