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The Importance of Trust in Business
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The Importance of Trust in Business
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June 21, 2022
TODAY WE CONCLUDE our focus on the importance of trust in business and how an individual or organization builds trust. The restaurant industry serves ...
Ethics of a Land Surveyor – continued
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Ethics of a Land Surveyor – continued
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June 14, 2022
Welcome back to our focus on Ethics of Land Surveyor. For the last few weeks, we have been looking at the importance of trust in business and how an i...
Ethics of a Land Surveyor
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Ethics of a Land Surveyor
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May 31, 2022
Welcome back to our series on the importance of trust in business and how an individual or organization builds trust. Today, we look at an area that a...
Engendering trust is important in your business
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Engendering trust is important in your business
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April 26, 2022
PIT HAS long been said that “trust not money is the currency of business and life.” – David Horsager. In an article “Trust is a bottom-line decision |...
How can you improve your customer service?
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How can you improve your customer service?
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April 5, 2022
“Customer centricity is the ability of people in an organisation to understand customers’ situations, perceptions, and expectations. Customer centrici...
What sets businesses apart?
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What sets businesses apart?
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March 8, 2022
Why are some businesses doing well and others catching hell? I knew of two doctors – relatives. One practice was located a stone’s throw away from the...
Feeling exposed as a consumer
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Feeling exposed as a consumer
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February 15, 2022
I am home grown, born and bred, but I am often told that I have an aura about me. Some people say I look foreign, others say I look rich. It could be ...
Failure is not the enemy of success
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Failure is not the enemy of success
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February 1, 2022
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy...
How to Avoid Lifestyle Inflation
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How to Avoid Lifestyle Inflation
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January 25, 2022
“It’s not that I am spending money badly, it’s that I don’t make enough money to spend.” This was said to me by someone who read our article “Can you ...
What triggers us to overspend?
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What triggers us to overspend?
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January 18, 2022
Welcome back to our series on being financially prudent. The plain truth is, most of us cannot afford to be extravagant. We ended last week by mention...
Mental health issues in the workplace
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Mental health issues in the workplace
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November 30, 2021
The topic of workplace mental health is being talked about more now than ever by employees and employers alike. Years ago, mental health was seen as a...
Handling job rejection Part 2
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Handling job rejection Part 2
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November 16, 2021
The loss of social relationships, circle of influence and the feeling of making a meaningful contribution can lead to negative thought patterns. This ...
Handling job rejection
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Handling job rejection
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November 9, 2021
My heart was broken, I lost my appetite, I felt detached. I experienced almost every stage of grief - denial and isolation, depression, and finally ac...
Power in the workplace Part:2
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Power in the workplace Part:2
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November 2, 2021
apparent? Everything takes longer to get done because everyone relies on him to wave his magic wand to generate certain reports, to troubleshoot certa...
Power in the workplace
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Power in the workplace
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October 19, 2021
Once a manager reached out to me asking my advice on how he might improve the morale/engagement within his team. I advised him that the two most impor...
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Corporate Governance in Economic Downturn
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September 28, 2021
AS MANY BUSINESS leaders worldwide contemplate their next strategic initiative to manoeuvre the uncertainty of the COVID-19 driven economic tide, the ...
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Death by Scepticism
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September 21, 2021
IT IS NOT VERY often we find ourselves in a bind; between a rock and a hard place, between the Red Sea and the Egyptian army, yet here we are. A few m...
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Keep Focus
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September 14, 2021
Nowadays, there are many distractions within the business environment. I am sure you will agree that, the things designed to side-track and cause us t...
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Image is NOT everything
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August 31, 2021
We are living in a superficial society where most are more concerned with how they are perceived externally than what is going on internally. This is ...
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Don’t muzzle the ox
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August 24, 2021
In recent times, one can observe that more and more people are finding their voice in our society. The new trend has taken us away from the notion of ...
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Rules of engagement: Get it right!
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August 17, 2021
IN MY LAST ARTICLE dubbed, ‘Rules of Engagement’, corporate leaders were cautioned that the current situation regarding the workforce resistance to ma...
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Rules of Engagement
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August 10, 2021
After the mountains of uncertainty that ushered in the year, the upsurge of Corona cases, and the explosive eruption of La Soufriere volcano; the dram...
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Transparency: The Cure for All
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July 27, 2021
IN THE PAST and no doubt at present, there have been numerous cries for transparency and accountability within the corporate arena. Nowadays, transpar...
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Work by faith
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July 20, 2021
WHEN WE LOOK around at the state of our economy and the seemingly unending challenges that our businesses are confronted with, the corporate future ma...
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Redeem the Time
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July 9, 2021
For years I have heard about the ‘Vincentian time’. It is often the excuse given when one shows up late for a function, or when a function commences l...
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Can Your Leadership be Trusted?
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July 2, 2021
We are living in unprecedented times. Never have there been more uncertainty, restlessness and perplexity in our country. Over the past year, many of ...
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You Can Only Change What You Can Change
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June 25, 2021
It was the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr who wrote the prayer asking God for the serenity to accept the things that cannot be changed, the cour...
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Follow the money
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June 18, 2021
Someone said, ‘money answers all things’. I can recall hearing my previous boss, many years ago, saying that ‘if one takes care of the pennies then th...