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Here’s How Much Bad Leadership Can Cost an Organisation

Uncategorized Oct 29, 2019

“Gallup estimates that a lack of leadership capability costs U.S. corporations up to $550 billion annually.”

There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing a high-functioning organisation held captive by its leader. There’s few things more needlessly damaging to an organisation’s prospects in an increasingly competitive world that can spoil the party before it’s even started, so today we’re going to talk about the real-life monetary impact of bad leadership in organisations. It’s one thing to throw around buzz-words and generalisations, but another thing entirely to look at the numbers and see the concrete link of bad leadership with underperforming organisations. So, let’s get started.

 

The numbers show that bad leadership causes toxic attitudes in the workplace and isolates even the most tough-headed and resilient staff members to the point that they’re likely to quit your organisation and work for a more inspiring...

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The 14 Habits of Highly Effective Organisations - Part Two

Uncategorized Oct 29, 2019

More often than not with these articles, I’m talking about my approach to doing business, and what I’ve implemented that has worked - and failed - at Best Practice. Today, however, we’re going to be doing a bit of analysis on a piece published on Entrepreneur, from Rob Finklestein, author of “Fourteen Ways to a Successful Company.” If you’ve kept an eye on our blog, you would have noticed that we’ve covered the majority of these pillars of business in long-length articles which I encourage you to check out. I think it’s important to take the views and insights from other business figures into account when we’re tossing up what works in business, so, for now, let’s jump into Finklestein’s list and talk about how and why these are at the core of every successful organisation’s results.

This is part two of our exploration of the habits of highly effective organisations, and you can read the first part here.

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The 14 Habits of Highly Effective Organisations - Part One

Uncategorized Oct 29, 2019

More often than not with these articles, I’m talking about my approach to doing business, and what I’ve implemented that has worked - and failed - at Best Practice. Today, however, we’re going to be doing a bit of analysis on a piece published on Entrepreneur, from Rob Finklestein, author of “Fourteen Ways to a Successful Company.” If you’ve kept an eye on our blog, you would have noticed that we’ve covered the majority of these pillars of business in long-length articles which I encourage you to check out. I think it’s important to take the views and insights from other business figures into account when we’re tossing up what works in business, so, for now, let’s jump into Finklestein’s list and talk about how and why these are at the core of every successful organisation’s results.

 

Culture

You can’t have a great organisation without a vibrant culture driving the results and the motivation of the...

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How to solve the "too many documents" problem.

Uncategorized Feb 20, 2019
 

If you're someone who has been putting off implementing an ISO management system in your organization because you're already swamped with other projects and/or you've got too much on your plate, and the thought of producing more documented policies and procedures gives you chills, then this video will give you 5 practical tips you can use to reduce the stress and anxiety of what documents you need for an ISO management system.

What documents do you have?

Let's begin here, what have you already created and what portion of that do you actually use. Now obviously you have all different types of stakeholder requirements and legal obligations, but aside from those, what written policies and procedures do you keep hidden away in a manual somewhere.

It's important to understand that the ISO management systems never tell you to write policies and procedures but says; "ensure it is available and suitable for use, where and when it is needed".

So what does that mean? It means that if you've...

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Reverse Engineering Success in a 12 week program

 

Success from an ISO Perspective

Projects can be hard and daunting to get off the ground, especially in an organization, and implementing a management system is no different. You can make it easier by breaking it down into bite-sized chunks and in this video, I explain how you can find success in implementing a management system using this method.

l was recently invited to speak at the ARI mentor program, in which participants were tasked with a project in a 12 week time period. It's no secret that setting short term goals is an effective way to maintain focus, keep momentum, and what many people fail to realize is that it's written in the ISO management systems. 

What does it look like in ISO?

What I've been campaigning for the last couple of years is how to read the ISO standards, and the ISO has done a disservice in the way it's structured the standards. I'm not talking about the structure of Annex SL, I'm...

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HOW TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE WITH THESE 3 SIMPLE STEPS

 

Three steps to begin ISO 14001 environmental management systems, if you're someone who knows that you're committed to and convinced that you can make some small improvements in your organization to improve your organization's environmental impact, your organization's environmental performance. I'm going to show you how you might be able to identify that there are some financial incentives and some financial benefits and how you can go about three simple steps to get environmental programs running in your organization.

 

If you're a beginner and you want to just get started and just simply understand what the three tips are in terms of getting started with an environmental management system that marries up or complies with ISO 14001 stay you’re in the right place.

 

Three steps to begin with ISO 14001 or an environmental management system.

 

  1. Tip number one is doing a Google search or trying to understand or getting an understanding of what are the environmental...
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HOW TO START ISO 9001:2015 QMS IN 5 SIMPLE STEPS

 

5 steps to begin ISO 9001 and the implementation of a quality management system. Here are 5 basic steps to understand what's involved in ISO 9001, what it's all about and I'll give you 5 tips to follow that sets you off on your journey to compliance with the ISO 9001 or meeting ISO 9001 and supporting your organization with improving customer service.

 

 If you're challenged with understanding this complicated standard, you're challenged with trying to understand what you need to do and you just want some simple terminology, here are 5 basic steps to follow to get your quality management system started.

 

  1. What are the promises that your organization's making to your customers? Specific to your customers, not what's on your website not the features and benefits, not the bullet points not that stuff but when the team that do the selling in your organization or the people that do the selling or marketing and selling in your organization, when they do that, what do they...
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What is the P.D.C.A. cycle?

Uncategorized Oct 23, 2017

Where did it come from, and why does it work?

The importance of the P.D.C.A. cycle in the context of business cannot be understated. If we take a step back and look at business improvement in a metaphorical sense, we can see the idea as a body. The brain – your management team, provides the crucial ideas; the muscles - your staff, constantly move towards the goal; and the spine – the P.D.C.A. cycle, effectively holds everything together as the most crucial anatomic feature.

As a bit of historical context, the late American engineer, statistician and professor, Edward Deming, is known for collaborating with Walter A. Stewhart in the creation and implementation of the first P.D.C.A. cycle in a post-WWII Japan. At the time, the P.D.S.A. (plan, do, study, act) cycle was intended for use in the research and scientific fields. In 1950, Deming delivered a speech titled “Statistical product quality administration” which has since been credited as a significant...

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The Purpose of ISO 27001

iso 27001 Oct 13, 2017

The purpose of the ISO27001 Information Security Management System is to help preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and the availability of your critical business information assets.

 

Confidentiality refers to limiting access and disclosure of information to authorized users, and preventing access by or disclosure to unauthorized users.

We all have a bank account, and the bank has sensitive personal information about us, so we obviously want to know that only authorized people at the bank has access to our banking and personal information.

 

Integrity refers to upholding and ensuring the accuracy and reliability of data over its entire life-cycle. This is a critical aspect to the design, implementation and usage of any system which stores, processes or retrieves critical data.

If we are sending an online money transfer of $1,000 but the information was tampered with so we actually sent $10,000 it can prove very costly! You want to be confident that the right amount is...

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ISO 27001 Myths debunked

iso 27001 Oct 04, 2017

Getting certified for ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems Standard can sound daunting. Understanding, achieving and maintaining accredited certification to the international standard for information security management, ISO 27001, can be a complicated job, especially if you are new to the standard. However, it is not as difficult as the rumours make it out to be!

Let us kill some of the myths about ISO 27001 for you, so you don’t have to worry!

 

1.     ISO27001 requires a massive investment in technology and other resources

2.     It requires a large amount of documentation

3.     It takes a long time to implement the standard

4.     The standard imposes new constraints on business

 

Luckily, NONE of these are true!

 

An organisation can implement an effective ISO 27001 information security management system with very little investment. Most businesses today...

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