Chris Croft Training

Management Training Designed to Make a Difference

Hear Chris on podcasts

I get asked to guest on podcasts quite often, and here are some that I have agreed to do: Personnel Today Be Awesome At Your Job Accounting Influencers Sales Reinvented Coming Soon Speaker Launcher Coming Soon https://www.speakerlauncher.com/category/podcasts/

What a boss should be doing

A manager or leader should be spending as much time as they can on things that are Important but not Urgent – this is often known as Box 3, also known as quadrant 2, depending on how you draw your diagram of important / urgent.  I call it box 3. PIC All other time is just […]

Which vegetable is yours?

Use this chart to find the Management Vegetables for the subject you want to learn about: Leadership The Plum of Performance  The Coaching Cherries The Carrots of Motivation The Banana of Boredom The Iceberg of Ignorance The Leeks of Leverage  Marrow’s Heirarchy of Swedes The Situational Seagull The Freedom Frog The Leadership Tadpole Management The […]

The Planning Tortoise (don’t rush it

These are the ingredients of good planning: Time – critical path, contingency, crashing if required Objective and priorities, how will success be measured? Resources – required vs available.  Includes money, equipment, people etc Team – involvement of the team wherever possible, who, skills required, mix of types Obstacles and risk – plan for possible problems, […]

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 […]