Many senior managers and business leaders will take the view that discretionary spending must be reduced or eliminated in a recession - it's one of the founding principles behind prudent financial management And of course, training falls into that category, right

In my latest book, Brilliant Leader, I make the point that a person's capability can be summed up by considering an iceberg Some of an iceberg is visible but most of it is below the surface

There is little doubt that great teamwork delivers better results than a group of competent individuals working independently But what is it that makes a great team and how does a team leader go about developing a great team

When I first started in sales and marketing over 25 years ago my manager made one thing completely clear from the beginning – selling anything to anyone is a numbers game The more people you put your product in front of, the more you will sell

Are you suffering from information overload I think just about anyone who goes on the internet looking for programs and tools to either promote their website or earn money online must be going crazy with the amount of information available

Many moons ago when I worked in the recruitment industry, ‘New Year , New Career’ was among our favourite advertising mantras, wheeled out in January to catch that wave of optimism that sweeps through the job market each year – “out with the old, in with the new’ What interests more at this juncture is not so much a career for the new year but rather, a career for the new age

I heard an interesting stat the other day that there are more web pages in existence than there are people in the world This ranks right up there with another astonishing stat that there are more people alive today than have ever lived

We have all heard of pay-per-click (PPC) and have seen it rise to become the primary form of online advertising in the space of only a few years Most webmasters carry PPC ads on their sites these days, be it Google or any of the other PPC providers such as Yahoo or Miva

The term leap experience was first coined back in the early 1990s to describe the rapid learning curve that can be achieved by placing a high talent individual into a targeted work assignment Such a work assignment would be designed to take them out of their comfort zone and beyond their current level of competence

Experiential Learning is not new but is incredibly under used as a method for training and developing staff Consider for a moment how people tend to be trained at your place of work and what methods top the list