Jean Roberts: Small and medium enterprise

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One of my early lessons as a Trainer

Early reflections on establishing my chosen early career as a Trainer – which evolved into my now established career as a writer of training materials

My usual behaviour after presenting or facilitating a training course (back then) had been to …

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Knowledge and information transfer – how and why technology is a major problem

Knowledge and information in the main are passed from one party to another through formal or informal conversation, in written or visual form, or through the use or application of technology.  The tool for knowledge and information transfer is EFFECTIVE …

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Manage your Corporate Language, please!

Any organisation will have a language of its own.

Now – here’s the problem:

There will be people in any organisation who just don’t know, understand or recognize this Corporate Language and are therefore at a disadvantage.  They also …

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Business Brainpower as a tool in connecting organistional and personal values

This connection is vital in ensuring organisational effectiveness and individual job satisfaction.

In designing strategies to achieve organisational success, the organisation’s stated values – and those of individuals within the organisation - are a great starting point.

Organisational values can …

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5-Levels of Quality Maturity in Nonprofit Board Performance

In sequence, this article introduces:

  1. Board performance
  2. Why should a Board be concerned about quality in their own performance?
  3. Tribute to the late Philip B Crosby – author of Quality is Free - the art of making quality certain, (Published

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In-house Research begins with an Archaeological Dig of your Organisation

By digging into the history of your organisation, you can uncover and connect with the passions, commitment and energy that contributed to the early stages and later growth.   Yes, each organisation will have a history – no matter how …

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Business Brainpower as a tool in Training and Development

Training and development should be a core activity at all levels in any business or organisation – and Business Brainpower is an excellent tool to increase the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of your training and development budget.

Training and development is …

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Jean’s Nonprofit and Social Enterprise Organisational Health Check

Nonprofit organisations and social enterprises need to examine their progress at regular intervals for two important reasons:

  1. to check that what they are doing is in line with what they think they are doing, and
  2. to find out if anything

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Submission/tender writing – how does it rank in your Company’s priorities?

‘Submission’ is used as a generic term, and includes tenders, quotes, proposals and any form of response document.   This article was written for The “Australian Project Manager” and published in 1987.  It’s very relevant today!

Let’s ask a

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Jean’s Checklist for Reading or Writing a Tender or Submission Brief

Jean’s Tender/Submission Brief Checklist outlines what to look in a Brief if you are preparing a response document – and, as importantly, what to make sure you cover if you are preparing a Brief to invite tender/submission responses.

Reading or …

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