These days delivering a presentation is a key business skill, with the ubiquitousness of applications like PowerPoint, it’s meant that everyone has the tools around them to create a presentation but tools aside whether everybody can deliver an excellent presentation is another matter. What is a presentation? A presentation is perhaps easiest to think of […]
Author: Emily Martin
Developing Marketing department goals and objectives
Almost every company would love a repeatable standard process that brings customers and value. This is usually the aim of the marketing team but how do you achieve this? Through setting measurable objectives, communicating them and monitoring performance. That’s how! When it comes to setting objectives the marketing Department is not exempt. Yes, I know […]
Methods of measuring employee engagement
In our recent article on human resources key performance indicators we discussed the value of employee engagement as a metric. Employee engagement can be one of those tricky measures that can be calculated in a variety of different ways. A great many consultancies have popped up with a sole intention of assisting companies with this […]
10 Key Performance Indicators for Human Resources
While KPI’s are often abundant with transactional functions like procurement and manufacturing, applying measures to other areas of the business can sometimes be a struggle. Human Resources can be one of those troublesome areas but the benefits of utilizing KPI’s can usually outweigh the implementation struggles. KPI’s are a vital tool in the weapon of […]
What does good look like? 5 steps to better benchmarking
So I was at a supplier today, this was a business that had been family-run for 40 years. Whilst the company performed adequately enough one of the things that struck me was the level of process improvement that could be achieved. I asked my self why the current owner had not done it? And it […]
5 crucial questions you should be asking at your supplier PMR
We all know that supplier performance management reviews (PMR’s) are a good thing. Not only do they provide the building blocks for a healthy relationship, through communication, they are a vital aspect of continuous improvement between two companies. PMR’s are usually where the supplier and customer get together to review their business relationship, usually at […]
Creating a simple but funky to do list in Excel using data validation and Conditional Formatting
First of all, whilst I know there are a variety of apps out there can manage your to do lists (trello, todoist are some I continue to use) what I wanted here was a simple To Do list with some funky formatting that would allow me to standardise my list at work + share with […]
Key steps to improve forecast accuracy
Perhaps one of the most common issues I come across in business, and a key contributor to a variety of associated problems, is poor forecast accuracy. Poor forecast accuracy can affect a whole facet of key (critical) elements from cash through to resources let alone the obvious issues like inventory and customer deliveries. Unfortunately, many […]
Why Excel is not a project management tool.
I’ve been around many companies in my time as a consultant and I’m always amazed by the number of business that uses Excel as their project management tool. While there are a great many Project Management Software tools out there Excel tends to be ubiquitous, it’s one of those tools that is on everyone’s desktop, […]
5 Example Quarterly Business Review – QBR – Agendas
A while back we wrote about the importance of QBR’s (Quarterly business reviews) – these meetings generally act as a diarised focal point for key stakeholders to gather to discuss progress on a particular topic. Common examples of QBR’s might be: * Project Steering groups * Supplier/Customer business reviews * Functional department reviews Whatever the […]