COA Solutions – Business Accounting Software

Guest blogger Phil Hawthorn has run One Step Ahead since 1996 – a training company specialising in team and enabling skills. After 13 years, help with time management is still the most common requested workshop, so he will be passing on his experience and tips for a more efficient future.

It is the way of the world, now. Even before the phrase sub-prime morphed into world financial crisis, and finally the dreaded “R” word – recession – entered our everyday lexicon, every organisation I have ever worked with wants to improve efficiency and effectiveness….

One of the questions that always goes through my mind when I am on a plane waiting for take off is, ‘Am I safer because there is a pilot flying this machine or would I be safer without him?’. This was brought home to me with the media discussion on the crash of the Air France Airbus 330.