Business – Matthew Harvey

Making Meetings Better

Many people come away from their meetings with the ‘well that’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back’ feeling. So how do we make meetings better and a good use of time?

When most people start a task they jump straight in and commence the task. This gets the ball rolling and they start their research or even commence developing the product – especially if they have a template to use or something someone else has used previously which was successful. However, the downside of this isContinue reading “Plan to Plan”

The Fundamentals

What are the Fundamentals? The fundamentals are those aspects or behaviours which underpin everything you do. They are not a list of ‘what’ to do, more the ‘how’ or ‘why’ which you should take into consideration. Think of them as the framework. What I have listed here are some things to think about and inContinue reading “The Fundamentals”

Professional Development – The Staff Officer

One thing I have noticed is that we don’t develop good staff officers – we don’t prepare them for staff positions in a headquarters supporting a senior commender. I plan to address that issue with a number of Blog posts in the coming months. Partly to share my own experience, but really to clarify myContinue reading “Professional Development – The Staff Officer”

Administrative Support

Introduction I had the opportunity recently of travelling to the United States as part of a group for work. We had a task to do while we were there, more than just attending a conference and with people within the group doing a variety of different tasks and working different shift times. All staying inContinue reading “Administrative Support”