by The Bad Manager | Mar 27, 2018 | GDPR
What is GDPR? This is the question on everyone’s minds at the moment. The May deadline is fast approaching and it seems that every other email I get is a company trying to sell me a service that will help me with my GDPR goals. But what is GDPR? General...
by The Bad Manager | Mar 18, 2018 | GDPR
Welcome to my definitive guide to GDPR – Part 1 Who am I to write this guide? In short, I am no one! I am not a lawyer, I am not a professional in European Law, I am simply ‘The Bad Manager’ (for more on that, see my other blog posts). Why am I...
by The Bad Manager | May 10, 2017 | Management, Uncategorized
Difficult customers and how to deal with them. What makes a difficult customer? The old adage of ‘the customer is always right’ in my experience should be followed up by ‘but it doesn’t always mean they know what they are talking about’. Many a time I have come...
by The Bad Manager | Feb 4, 2017 | Management
The first question to ask yourself here is: are you working hard enough? If no, then you are being paid enough and in fact, you probably are being overpaid and owe your employer more work. Second, are you working to capacity and to your full potential. If yes then I’m...
by The Bad Manager | Feb 4, 2017 | Management
Have you ever just sat there and thought… “I’m just too busy, I can’t do all of this work today, I can’t do all this work in a week, how can I get all of this done today?” And then had a member of staff or more senior colleague come and give you yet another thing to...