Welcome everyone to my first ever blog.
I thought I would share with you a little about me and what I hope to provide with this blog. For the past 15 years, I have worked in many industries, from government, corporate and small business sectors. In most cases, it has involved working by the seat of my pants. What I had learned over time is that business organizations hardly ever have a “How to Guide,” when it comes to most jobs. Therefore creating something from nothing empowers not only you but also those to come after you.
We can look at the current economic crisis as a time to conduct some internal housekeeping chores we have been putting off. We could be looking at ways to streamline processes, or improve on our customer service delivery, ensuring that our customers no matters their size are treated as if they were our one and only client. Take the time to revaluate your business and personal priorities. If today were your last day on the job, what would you do differently?
We all remember starting in our first job, either at McDonald, KFC or retail outlet, learning the fundamentals of customer service and communications. It was our ‘L’ time and for number years, until we perfected our skills and branched out into our career of choice, which meant that, we progressed to ‘P’ status and finally fully fledged licensed employees, or business owners. This skill has not been achieved over night, but rather over time.
Make time for you to do something that you enjoy, whether it is window shopping, going for a walk or a drive. Listen to your favourite music, dance as if nobody can see you, and have fun at the office. Remember laughter, smiling and joy at contagious, so spread it around freely!
There are many networking organizations around, depending on what your needs are, there is an organization to meet them. It is easy to lose site of how to make new friends. It can also be quite is scary, when you have not made a new friend in a long time. Where do you start? I tend to gravitate towards networking sites for women who offer mentoring and business enhancement skills whilst also offering friendship for my business such as Essentially for Women and for my social outlet, I chose Getalife. Both meet my specific needs. It is so easy to forget your needs, when you work so hard at meeting the needs of others. Networking opens many doors to fantastic opportunities, open a door today and see what is behind it!
To summarize this first blog, learn to manage your time more effectively, by re-evaluating your processes and procedures to assist those working in your organization. Look at ways we communicate internally with our staff and externally with our clients, by finding the passion that drove us when we first started out. Finally we are not an Island, we rely on many sources to help our business grow, through recommendations, repeat business, networking and knowledge.
We all start out wanting to do a good job and ultimately to be remembered for providing excellence in our service delivery for customers. ‘Build it and they will come, ignore them and you will go broke’!
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
I thought I would share with you a little about me and what I hope to provide with this blog. For the past 15 years, I have worked in many industries, from government, corporate and small business sectors. In most cases, it has involved working by the seat of my pants. What I had learned over time is that business organizations hardly ever have a “How to Guide,” when it comes to most jobs. Therefore creating something from nothing empowers not only you but also those to come after you.
We can look at the current economic crisis as a time to conduct some internal housekeeping chores we have been putting off. We could be looking at ways to streamline processes, or improve on our customer service delivery, ensuring that our customers no matters their size are treated as if they were our one and only client. Take the time to revaluate your business and personal priorities. If today were your last day on the job, what would you do differently?
We all remember starting in our first job, either at McDonald, KFC or retail outlet, learning the fundamentals of customer service and communications. It was our ‘L’ time and for number years, until we perfected our skills and branched out into our career of choice, which meant that, we progressed to ‘P’ status and finally fully fledged licensed employees, or business owners. This skill has not been achieved over night, but rather over time.
Make time for you to do something that you enjoy, whether it is window shopping, going for a walk or a drive. Listen to your favourite music, dance as if nobody can see you, and have fun at the office. Remember laughter, smiling and joy at contagious, so spread it around freely!
There are many networking organizations around, depending on what your needs are, there is an organization to meet them. It is easy to lose site of how to make new friends. It can also be quite is scary, when you have not made a new friend in a long time. Where do you start? I tend to gravitate towards networking sites for women who offer mentoring and business enhancement skills whilst also offering friendship for my business such as Essentially for Women and for my social outlet, I chose Getalife. Both meet my specific needs. It is so easy to forget your needs, when you work so hard at meeting the needs of others. Networking opens many doors to fantastic opportunities, open a door today and see what is behind it!
To summarize this first blog, learn to manage your time more effectively, by re-evaluating your processes and procedures to assist those working in your organization. Look at ways we communicate internally with our staff and externally with our clients, by finding the passion that drove us when we first started out. Finally we are not an Island, we rely on many sources to help our business grow, through recommendations, repeat business, networking and knowledge.
We all start out wanting to do a good job and ultimately to be remembered for providing excellence in our service delivery for customers. ‘Build it and they will come, ignore them and you will go broke’!
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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