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101 Benefits of having your own recruitment agency-Benefit No#19-Stick by the 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 Rule means that in any situation, 20 percent of the inputs or activities are responsible for 80 percent of the outcomes or results. The problem is, it’s the 80% that is the least productive is where we spend most of our time and effort. That's because the 20% is usually more challenging and can take us outside our comfort zone. And, picking up from yeste [...]
January 16, 2020
101 Benefits of having your own recruitment agency- Benefit No#17-The Kings’ Harems
Many years ago, I was working as a Business Development Director for a company called Crown Personnel. They had recruited a new Managing Director who had promised the Chairman Stephen Crown that he could turn the company’s fortunes around within weeks. He said, what the company needed was a more stick than carrot approach management style and he was just the man to deliver the required disc [...]
January 15, 2020
101 Benefits of having your own recruitment agency – No.#18-The ‘Naysayers’ are wrong!
It’s amazing the number of people who attend our free recruitment start up workshop presentation, who are very keen to get started, but who then run the idea past a friend or relative and allow that person to talk them out of starting their business to their detriment! Negative peer pressure from naysayers is perhaps the number one reason why a person does not start a business. And it can have [...]
January 14, 2020
BREXIT – Deal Or No Deal, Either Way You Lose, Unless…….
BREXIT – Deal Or No Deal, Either Way You Lose, Unless... Just for the record, I am not politically minded in any way, shape or form; that being said, if given the chance, I know I could sort out the Brexit conundrum in a day, but more on how I could do this in a moment or two If you’ve attended one of my workshop presentations, you would have heard me reveal the secret to having [...]
October 08, 2019
Quick Story, Powerful Lesson…
Every four years the Olympics happen, and oftentimes all that separates the best runners or swimmers in the world are 1/100 of a second. Yet, the person who is 1/100 of a second faster gets the gold medal, the plaudits and the lucrative sponsorship deals. It doesn’t matter if you barely lost, you LOST. It’s the same in business. You and five of your competitors might pitch a client, but on [...]
June 13, 2019
How Fame and Fortune Ruined Mike Tyson
Some years ago, while I was attending evening classes studying for my CIPD qualification, I was informed that the new school caretaker was a sparring partner for Mohamed Ali. Now, this guy must have been in his 70s and he look a little frail, and several the students wanted to mess around and do shadow boxing with him, but as he was at work, he wasn’t at all interested. One of the young lads w [...]
February 15, 2019
“We cannot teach people anything; We can only help them discover it within themselves.”
Many years ago, in Thailand there was a temple that was called The Temple of The Golden Buddha. At this temple was a huge golden statue of the Buddha. Word came to this village where the monastery was that an army from a neighbouring country was about to invade. So, they came up with brilliant scheme to cover the golden Buddha with mud and concrete so that it looked like a stone and thus the [...]
February 13, 2019
Is this Dumb or what?!
Recently, I had someone attend my workshop presentation, who on the day was unable to invest the full start-up fee as her money was tied up in a savings account that she did not have immediate access to. So, she paid a deposit to reserve the special offer that we had on the day and agreed to pay the balance to get started the following week. The following Friday she phoned up and said Joe I hav [...]
January 07, 2019
101 Benefits Of Having Your Own Recruitment Agency – Benefit No.16_ Stephen Hawking -Truly Inspirational
World renowned scientist Stephen Hawking recently passed away at the age of 76, but he left behind an amazing legacy that we can benefit from. Sometimes I have people who put off starting their own home-based recruitment agency because English is not their first language. Not being able to wax lyrical certainly was no hindrance to Stephen Hawking. Imagine how hard it must have been to do what he [...]