Allied to company structure and management issues is the training required for the company. In some cases this is down to an individual with a lack of experience in a particular field. It is hard for some business owners to admit they are not so good at everything. The fallacy that they ‘have managed fine so far ‘ is an easy trap to fall into.

In truth everyone is better at some things. Whether you are Left Brain or Right Brain is an interesting concept that appears to hold good. That affects your capacity and tendency to be methodical or arbitrary for example. Are you ‘Piling’ rather than ‘Filing’?  Are you good at the overview and can’t stand the detail? Have you a highly controlled process driven approach or are you a born delegator leaving you free to set up the next idea?

The mix is infinite and varied.

Management is downwards, upwards, and sideways as well. Your staff have to manage their juniors as well as their colleagues as well as the boss. It’s an all round exercise.

If you feel it needs oiling Bob Shepherd associates can look at what is required to increase efficiency by having a happier staff who are more likely to contribute to a team. 

The personal touch

Only a few seconds are available to get it right! Do that and nobody notices. Do it wrong and you lose a job, a contract or a sale. Bob Shepherd associates offers training in personal First and Last impressions.

Networking is the stuff of small business promotion. To some it is a chance to get over your ideas and your business. To others it is a nightmare of unsatisfactory encounters leaving you with hundreds of business cards you don’t know what to do with. Let Bob Shepherd Associates help you see it differently and start to use it to best advantage. 

Projects and presentations

You may be good at what you do but how good are you at putting together those presentations you need to win that contract?

Are you as good at presenting as you are at Power Points? And just how good is that? Once you have spent hours designing the perfect slide you can’t see the spelling mistakes anymore. Bob Shepherd Associates can produce your slides for you and teach you how to present them.

CVs

So many times an otherwise good CV is spoilt because of a basic spelling error. Computer ‘spell check’ is not good enough. Do you need to rearrange it all? Talk it through with us. Checking and preparing imaginative CVs is one of our offerings to back up personal coaching.