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20 Crunchy Breakfast Tips for Crunchy times. The recent turmoil of the last few weeks with RBS, HalifaxBOS, Lloyds and all the other banks has meant that everybody are worried. This is the time when the strong get going and here are a few simple tips to get you going in the heat of the moment. One thing is to spread these tips out to your management and staff:
Personal Behaviour
· Use Positive language – don’t allow yourself, or your staff to talk yourself into a black hole. Just keep looking for the silver lining in whatever you are doing. It will help your peers and your team stay focused
· Stand up both physically and mentally, as with head up and proper breathing your body will react much better to the stresses and strains of what comes at us.
· Get enough sleep, which like posture is so easy to do but we seem to forget about. In stressful situations your body needs more time to relax and recharge your batteries. This is not the time to be burning the candle at both ends.
· Get some exercise... walk a few bus or tube stops... and at least get some fresh air in your lungs. If you can get some perspiration on your brow then even better.
· Watch the diet and keep off the comfort food. We know it only lasts for a few moments and then has a tendency to drag you down once the initial high has worn off. Be strong… and that includes the alcohol as well …
· Smile and laugh as much as you can as the endorphins that you release will do wonders for your immune system
Staff Behaviour – under more pressure and uncertainty, people’s behaviours default more to their norm, as the stress will use up pressure energy normally used to control emotions. The more sensitive the person the more stress they will feel and the more they will behave oddly. These changes will mean that people are working at or above their limit of competence. Things to look for are around changes in positive and negative attitude, slower decisions and maybe no decisions, more chit chat and less walk, potentially more bullying, more illness and longer recuperation, less energy and willingness to change, less pro-activity and more reactivity, less ideas and input from creative people
Departments – due to change in economics from “a spending growing economy” to “a saving economy” departments will default to their natural “fears”:
· Credit control will tighten up more than maybe necessary on potential customers and reduce credit limits
· Marketing will go for safer strategies and reduce advertising to pay for salaries
· Production will slow down to eke out orders, defects might increase due to worried staff and give longer lead times than is normal
· Un-structured sales teams will tend to over estimate future sales because they won’t know where the sales are coming from and structured sales teams will to under estimate future orders
· Accounts departments go slower as they double check their work for errors, pay expenses slower thus annoying staff and pay suppliers later for obvious reasons
· HR will reduce salaries, bonuses, flexibility on holidays and tighten up on acceptances for sick notes
©William Barron – November 4th 2008 – Creating Insight
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