The principle of incremental marginal gains, so powerfully implemented by David Brailsford and his cycling teams, has been a mantra for a number of businesses and leaders. Essentially this describes those 1% improvements which energise people and organisations and add...
As a CEO, let alone as a manager, we aren’t currently able to articulate the direction and goals with precision. We are grappling with the 2020 budget and, unfortunately for most businesses, aren’t even in a position to guarantee employment. Even the most optimistic...
10 practical things a manager can do to build the team One of the positives from the last few months has been the renewed focus managers have placed on keeping the team united, and how they have integrated team building into the daily routines. Activities like...
Many organisations have done a stellar job up to now of leading their employees through COVID-19, but how they re-board furloughed staff feels like another key leadership milestone. With the market, operational, and safety challenges of a return, it would be...
Whilst a return to ‘normal’ isn’t imminent, with Germany exiting full lockdown it starts to give us some hope in the UK that it might not be too long before we follow. Naturally our attention begins to drift towards how we might return to a semblance of normality and...
As previously, the aim of this 3rd article is to provide those with responsibility for leading people with methods for personal engagement and a tool kit of practical activities which can be used during your daily/weekly team catch-ups. In a study of more than 2000...
Very few (if any) businesses will be operating business-as-normal and so the challenge for people managers is how do we translate our revised expectations to a workforce which must be feeling overwhelmed and distracted. Formally resetting what we now expect and how we...
In times of crisis, in large companies we rely on our key personnel and C-suite executives to work with banks, governments and external agencies to try and secure the business. This is the heavyweight crisis and financial management of the business which is pivotal to...
Take a free on-line survey to gain snapshot of your approach to multi-tasking, your leadership and team effectiveness and your strategic leadership attributes