Forward Looking Business Training

  Are you prepared for the storm that is coming? Will you be the one standing, or the one scrambling? Fire, flood, supply interruptions, and even civil unrest can affect your ability to operate. This week on Business Blunders we are delving into Business Continuity Planning. Update: Instead of rehashing our existing Forward Looking Guide: What's the Plan - an introduction to Business Continuity Planning, email us at training@forwardlookingsolutions.ca and we will email you a free pdf copy! We look forward to hearing from you.

‘It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit .’ (Harry S. Truman)   Let's continue with the discussion on Leadership starting with Teamwork. There is a concept called ‘Synergy’ which is defined as ‘a sum that is greater than the whole of its parts.’ If eight people each tried to pick up a boulder, individually they will fail… if they do it together, they will succeed. We can apply this concept to almost every aspect of our life and business.   ‘None of us is as smart as all of us.’ (Kenneth H. Blanchard)   Multi disciplinary teams are the key to an organization´s success and working together is paramount. Engineers design it, fabricators build it, marketers sell it, mechanics maintain it, and administrators keep us on track. Each of these people are links to a chain, and collectively they accomplish your goals. The key to all of this is to bring everyone and their skills together and have them work in unison to accomplish their comm...