The team at MBM publish posts on Linkedin Pulse about Learning & Development, Negotiations Skills, Time Management and other soft skill topics. You can read them here:
GSCOP – Do You Understand the Groceries Code of Practice?
A post that steers you to address whether your understanding of GSCOP is sufficient.
To understand GSCOP more fully buy – ‘A Complete Understanding of the Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP)’ in either:
Digital book available from Amazon. Physical book availabel from Lulu.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Time Managers
The Top 7 actions and behaviour traits that influence excellent time management.
7 Reasons to Say ‘No’ to One Day Training Courses
Why one-day training courses, with no preparatory work before and no support afterwards, are a little like doing your French homework on the bus to school. You’ve ticked a box and learnt very little, completely missing the point of the exercise.
Why You Procrastinate, How to Stop, and Why it is Like a Theme Park
A post of reflection as to why people procrastinate, why it is often very unhelpful and how to avoid it.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Negotiators
The Top 7 actions and behaviour traits that influence highly effective negotiation skills.
Why Doesn’t Your Personal Development Plan Work?
How to create a PDP that is fit for purpose.
What is Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve?
Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus made several findings, of which arguably his most famous finding, the forgetting curve. The forgetting curve describes the exponential loss of information that one has learned. The sharpest decline occurs in the first twenty minutes and the decay is significant through the first hour. The curve levels off after about one day
7 Time Management Tips to Quickly Increase Your Productivity
The Top 7 Time Management Tips that have an immediate impact on your ability to work efficiently and productively.
Brave Approach to Writing a Joint Business Plan with a UK Supermarket
How to go about writing a joint business plan, which is relatively new to the grocery industry as a whole.
Ultimate HR Scorecard for Measuring Training, Mentoring, and Recruitment
Making HR Managers, L&D Managers and HR Advisors really understand where they are now, where they want to be and how you might get from one to the other. A useful Performance Management Tool.
One Minute Video – If you…, then I… – Negotiation Skills Tips
Negotiation Skills Tips – 1 Minute Video – If you then I – Negotiation Skills Training https://www.makingbusinessmatter.co.uk/training-courses/negotiation-skills-training/
The Top 7 Challenges for L&D Managers – CIPD Annual Survey Report 2015
One Minute Video – Don’t Start with Sorry – Time Management Tips
One Minute Video – Eat That Frog – Time Management Tips
One Minute Video – The Woolly Mammoth – Time Management Tips
Big 4 Uk Supermarkets – Biggest Online Presence?
3 Killer Questions to Test Your Time Management System
You cannot manage time. It is constant. The clock simply ticks and as Thomas Jefferson famously said, “The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time”.
Don’t Start with Powerpoint
‘Don’t start with Powerpoint’ is about starting where Stephen Covey, Author of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, told us to start, with the ‘End in Mind’.
A Formula for Belief?
Thinking about my goals……and achieving them, got me thinking about the formula for belief, like the formula for trust, change and the 80:20.
A Complete Understanding of GSCOP Because You Need to Know
Working in the UK Grocery industry you will have heard of GSCOP – the ‘Groceries Supply Code of Practice’. This code was implemented by Government to regulate the relationships between supermarkets and their suppliers. Buy the Book written by Darren A Smith of MBM to help the industry navigate the code.
How Great Are You at Presenting, Managing Your Time, Negotiating, Influencing, or Managing Conflict?
Good hub of useful links to informative pages.
Great post with lots of relevant posts. Like the fact that there is brief descriptions too of each link, as it just shows a little more depth.
Large amount of good articles and posts all in one place. Really liked the videos that are linked from this page.