Vision, strategy, execution. Where’s your weak link? Vision, strategy, execution – three simple words we all understand. Regardless of seniority, most managers work hard, and long hours. But are the results of this hard work self evident? And if not, why not? This article explores vision, strategy, execution,[...]
A Bespoke Leadership Development Programme – 3 Questions To Ask Implementing a bespoke leadership development programme successfully takes skill. Getting it right means higher levels of engagement with ever improving results across your whole organisation. Get it wrong, and no matter how much money was[...]
Don’t train your managers! Don’t train your managers? “Don’t train your managers?” you say, but they need to perform at a higher level. We need to find training options. Pick typical management themes. Shortlist prospective suppliers. Get quotes. Despatch managers. Gain certificates. The problem is, training your managers[...]
SRA’s Continuing Competence Challenge – A Solution With the SRA’s new Continuing Competence rules solicitors and law firms now face a number of challenges. Solicitors now need to: reflect on practice to identify learning and development needs plan how to address learning and development needs think about how[...]
“If only I could clone myself” Every business owner manager has one major problem – human cloning hasn’t been invented. ‘If only I could replicate myself’ they wail, ‘I would be able to do so much more’. But they can’t. And instead their business becomes[...]
War in the Board Room Though chimpanzees are mainly vegetarian, they do eat meat. Specifically, Red Colobus Monkeys. Chimps search them out, gang up, lay a trap, and pounce. Much like some board directors. There is a business to run. Egos to protect. Casualties are frequent. But it doesn’t have[...]
The Importance of Vision in Driving Engagement This is the second article in the series ‘How to increase employee engagement‘. In a recent leadership development programme I asked a group of managers to communicate the importance of vision in a more creative manner than usual.[...]
The Biggest Mistake Managers Make What is it about the title ‘manager’ which brings out the worst in us? From being one of the team, we now feel responsible. With this greater responsibility comes a new approach. To achieve goals I must now tell others[...]
How to make difficult decisions How to make difficult decisions. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” Peter Drucker. For some time you’ve known that you needed to make a difficult decision, but you keep putting it off in the[...]
