by admin | Sep 23, 2021 | Commercial Strategy, Leadership
A year ago, I ran a survey amongst smaller, medium-sized companies’ owners and managing directors. One of the questions I asked them was what they would like to see more of from the members of your management team. These are the things they came up with....
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | Dealing with People, Leadership
According to the job site Monster, companies spend on average about £4,500 recruiting a new employee. I think that’s conservative when you consider agency fees and the time and effort that goes into finding a good candidate. There’s also lots of evidence...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Big Picture, Leadership, Uncategorized
The quality of your leadership team is probably the single biggest determinant of how well and how quickly your business grows. At some point for most small companies, the debate begins about whether to bring some experience managers in… …and that often means bringing...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Leadership
I spent Monday morning talking to my clients about their responses to the escalation of the Coronavirus situation. I don’t want to go into the specifics of their responses for the simple reason that they are not YOU, and they are not in YOUR context. However, I do...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Leadership
When, as a spotty twenty-something-year-old, I first became responsible for the performance of others, it seemed that Leadership was something I had to learn, with a syllabus of skills to be mastered. I was immersed in training and reading about delegation, planning,...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Leadership
I don’t know about you, but six weeks ago, I hadn’t even heard of the word furlough. If I had been asked to make a guess, I’d have probably said it was something farmers did to fields! Now it is such a part of the mainstream business language I...
