Chris Croft Training

Management Training Designed to Make a Difference

How to conquer your own negative thinking

Sometimes at work you might feel that there’s no point, you can’t make a significant difference.  I was doing a project management course for a large local authority in England once and they were all complaining about how badly run everything was, and I was saying “Yes but you can still run your own projects […]

Difficult Boss

Bosses are the most difficult of all difficult people, because they have the power.  And I think many bosses haven’t been trained in managing people, they’re just making it up, so they are probably doing it badly.   Maybe they don’t know how to delegate properly, or they haven’t realized that thanks and encouragement are […]

Same at home and work

Some people are great negotiators at work but too embarrassed to do it at home (but at home it’s YOUR money!) …while others are great at home but can’t be bothered to do it at work (but at work the sums can be really large, and negotiating can make a big difference to the profit margin, raising […]

Goal setting is great – here’s how to make yours even greater

If you have personal goals, both for work and outside work, both short term and long term – you will be much more likely to achieve them. This is because setting goals is like putting an address into your SatNav, and your subconscious then has something to guide all of the little decisions that it makes […]