The Smart Train Blog

How To Have A Happy Vacation With Inbox Zero

April 10, 2015April 13, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Planning 4 Ds, defer, delegate, delete, do, email, inbox zero, mail for mac, outlook, zero inbox

Inbox Zero? My Inbox has three Zeros! Such a buzzword – Inbox Zero. It’s impossible to achieve, right? Well, that depends on you. That depends

Hail the Weekend! How To Work Less And Play More

March 26, 2015March 15, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Goal Setting hail, hump-day, tony humphreys, weekend, work, workweek

I labelled this post a little dishonestly, simply because my week is blurred in distinction between “work week” and “weekend”. Firstly, find your creative time Through

How To Brave The StartUp Rollercoaster

March 23, 2015March 4, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Success emotional intelligence, EQ, Liz Barron, startup

Liz Barron has written a guest post for the blog on learning to ride the StartUp Rollercoaster. I think all entrepreneurs feel like they are

Content Marketing Your Event in 5 Snackable Bites

March 9, 2015August 20, 2016 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Planning content marketing, Elish Bul Godley, event management

Elish Bul Godley has written a guest post for the blog on marketing your next event (online or offline). Content Marketing should not be by-passed but

Upskill Your Workforce The Smart Way

March 5, 2015March 1, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Coaching, Employee coaching, efficiency, morale, performance, productivity, training

Training and Coaching with The Smart Train

Investing in Training and Coaching is one of the most effective steps you can take to boost competitive advantage for your business. It’s a given.

Happiness In Three Steps

February 3, 2015March 4, 2015 Elaine Rogers Growth, Soft Skills happiness, Happy

Happiness Step No 1 Feel Happy Happiness Step No 2 Be Happy Happiness Step No 3 Go back to Happiness Step No 1 🙂 How did

Why you should NOT make New Year’s Resolutions

January 5, 2015January 17, 2015 Elaine Rogers Goal Setting, Soft Skills 2015, Goal Setting, happy new year, new year's resolutions, Planning, SMART goals

Bonne année! Welcome to 2015 Did you make New Year’s Resolutions this year? So how are they going? Are you on track? Or are they

Use The GROW Model To Present With Confidence

December 20, 2013January 12, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Success GROW, presentations, presenting, public speaking, rapport, VAK, WIIFM

Do you struggle with the thought of presenting? Speaking in public? Standing up in a meeting to demo something or show some charts? Well read on

Your Silent Partners

November 26, 2013January 12, 2015 Elaine Rogers Motivation, Soft Skills Business Coaching, business development, entrepreneur, investors, mentoring, seed capital, small business, start-up, venture capital

There is a certain quietness out there, beyond the madness of the noise in our heads as we endeavour to jump-start our new business. That

I Am Not A Good Presenter, Get Me Out Of Here!!

October 17, 2013January 12, 2015 Elaine Rogers Employee, Soft Skills confidence, fear of presenting, presentations, presenting, public speaking

So you think you are not a good presenter. One of the top human fears is the fear of public speaking. Another is the fear

Looking in the wrong direction for happiness

September 3, 2013January 12, 2015 Elaine Rogers Growth, Soft Skills habitual behaviour, happiness, searching, wally

Tunnel vision! Blinkers! Sound familiar? This can be a state of affairs when going through our daily grind. Focusing on just one thing. Mostly this

Blogging – I have no time to blog!

April 26, 2013January 12, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Planning blog, blogging, Goal Setting, Procrastination, schedule, too busy, wordpress

Do you blog? Are you blogging? No? It’s classic procrastination ~ why do today, what you can put off until tomorrow? Actually, I really enjoy

Ergonomic Health at Work

March 10, 2013February 26, 2017 Elaine Rogers Employee, Soft Skills ergonomic, ergonomics, exercises, eye strain, posture, repetitive strain injury, RSI

Ergonomic health – what’s it all about? We are all business people, working hard! Some of us may find ourselves sitting in front of the computer

Selling – Are you selling to your market or yourself?

February 22, 2013April 4, 2016 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Employee answers, benefits, consulting, FAB, features, hope, questions, Rick Page, Sales, selling

Are you talking about your products or services? To whom? Are you selling to your market, the people who matter? Or to yourself, quietly, unnoticed?

#SMEcommunity – Ireland’s Business Success Story

January 22, 2013August 29, 2017 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Growth #SMEcommunity, Birr, business growth, business support, entrepreneurship, FocusSMEIreland, networking, SME

#SMEcommunity – an inspiring idea that “viraled” beyond belief in a tiny country that possesses a HUGE business community. Last year, I attended the #Birr2012

Personal Responsibility For Your Professional Conduct

January 15, 2013December 30, 2016 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Management accountability, blame, communication, culture, management, motivation, personal development, professional development

Something has happened. You messed up. But hey, John messed up last week, and he managed to wangle his way out of it. So if you could just blame this one on time constraints, or perhaps Jane as she didn’t finish the draft correctly. Or maybe when James didn’t come back to you within the half hour you specified, that would have delayed you also, right? Wrong! If you mess up, are late submitting a project, or get something wrong – It’s your fault! – own up to it!

Merry Christmas from The Smart Train

December 20, 2012August 20, 2016 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Christmas, Growth 2012, 2013, happy new year, merry christmas, Planning

Yes, it’s that time of year again!!! What a year it has been for The Smart Train. We have launched, blogged, tweeted, facebooked, and newslettered till we cannot type

Employee Of The Year – 5 Reasons To Be The Best

December 10, 2012March 1, 2015 Elaine Rogers Employee, Management coaching, employee, goals, Health, love, New Year, self-discipline, smart, training

OK, so we know some of the attributes that employers look for when hiring. However, besides the above attributes, and relevant qualifications and experience, how can you ensure that you are a great employee in 2011? And more importantly, WHY should you be?

Here are 5 reasons to be the best that you can be: