Happy New Year!  Thanks for reading Ascot Consulting Group Ltd's Newsletter.  This Newsletter is to promote enhancement of management skills in the workplace, and leading to a happy and balanced worklife. 

Our focus will be on skills and concepts in Strategic Planning and Management, Change Management, Leadership and Employee Engagement.  We will also cover updated news in the business market and tips for fun and pleasure. 

Hope you enjoy!

Each year, your organization conducts a financial audit that reviews
all aspects of your financial systems and processes. Why not conduct the same type of audit of your strategic systems and direction? 

Utilizing the Systems Thinking Approach, Strategic IQ is the level of an organization’s strategic excellence.  Unlike the typical analytical thinking that deals with current issues and problems, Strategic IQ Audit allows you to think backwards, from the future to today, in order to go forward by asking five simple questions and Phases of Systems Thinking.

Stressful situations are common in the modern workplace, but you
can help employees by giving them more control, a greater sense of purpose and community, and the resources to function competently.

Virtually everything in the modern workplace is potentially a source of stress. Old equipment causes stress when it fails or slows the work.  Would you like to reduce workplace stress levels? Simply begin by focusing on the four loss of belonging, and loss of competence.