Blog / Teigan Margetts
Blog/
How to Protect your Boundaries When Your Procurement Team is Struggling
Has 2024 been a year where you set more time aside for yourself, or at least strived to find a better work-life balance? The article at Number 7 in our festive countdown might suggest that many of you have made an effort to set solid boundaries when workloads unexpectedly increase. And if it’s not worked … Continue reading How to Protect your Boundaries When Your Procurement Team is Struggling
How to Be More Persuasive in Procurement
Number 9 in our Christmas Countdown is one of our fantastic articles on professional development, complete with knowledge from an industry expert. We could all do with being a bit more persuasive every now and again, both personally and professionally, and the good news is that it’s not as difficult as you might think. It … Continue reading How to Be More Persuasive in Procurement
How to Have Great Development Conversations with your Boss
“I want to do exactly the same thing every year for the rest of my life!’ – said basically no procurement professional, ever. In fact, many of us feel the exact opposite. We want to continually learn and grow, with the potential one day to take on a leadership position as a CPO, or perhaps … Continue reading How to Have Great Development Conversations with your Boss
The Importance of Emotionally Understanding Your Stakeholders
Emotions at work are most certainly a controversial topic. After all, it’s hard to definitively answer questions such as: should I cry at work?, how should I work with a broken heart?, or even is it ok to be vulnerable? As complex a topic as emotions are, though, they are also powerful and important, especially … Continue reading The Importance of Emotionally Understanding Your Stakeholders
What to Do if Your New Boss Is a Micromanager
There are all sorts of managers out there, some brilliant, some less so. On the ‘less so’ side, your manager might be toxic, a narcissist, or actively be setting you up to fail. But could the worst of all of these be the dreaded micromanager? Relentless scrutiny, constant hovering, incessant meddling – anyone who’s ever … Continue reading What to Do if Your New Boss Is a Micromanager
Do You Have a Meeting Addiction? Find Out Here
If we asked you, ideally, how many meetings you’d like to attend in any given week, what would you say? Five? Ten? Or perhaps it would be zero? According to the Harvard Business Review, corporate professionals spend, on average, 23 hours per week in meetings, with this time increasing between 8-10% every year since the … Continue reading Do You Have a Meeting Addiction? Find Out Here
3 Easy Communication Tactics for Inspiring Those Around You
Have you ever walked away from a conversation, or a leadership program, or perhaps a TED talk, and felt truly inspired and invigorated? Have these interactions left you feeling like you have a new lease on life, and that suddenly you’re motivated to do even more with your career or your life? We all love … Continue reading 3 Easy Communication Tactics for Inspiring Those Around You
3 Meetings You’ll Attend This Week and How to Succeed in Them
Meetings. Whether you love them or hate them, on a weekly basis you’re likely attending some, or perhaps, a lot of them. But as we all know, more meetings do not necessarily mean more productivity. There are many reasons why procurement meetings don’t go as planned. Perhaps your meeting goes completely off-track because someone wasn’t … Continue reading 3 Meetings You’ll Attend This Week and How to Succeed in Them
Are You Suffering from a Silo Mentality?
Procurement has been called one of the organisation’s most essential functions, and there’s no doubt that we can make a lasting impact. At the same time, we are not above criticism: some commentators say we need a new operating model and that our processes are in desperate need of an overhaul. But with all of … Continue reading Are You Suffering from a Silo Mentality?
Is It Ever OK to Lie at Work? Find Out Here
The English philosopher Francis Bacon once said, “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” And while Bacon lived in the fourteenth century (far before procurement ever came into being) he was certainly onto something: when it comes to the truth, sometimes it’s necessary to add some…lies? White lies? … Continue reading Is It Ever OK to Lie at Work? Find Out Here