Executive Coach – How To Pick A Good One “How do I pick a good Executive Coach?” David, a Learning and Development Director, asked. A good question, and as coaching is an unregulated industry, worthy of an answer. I’d like to suggest there are five critical components to picking a[...]
The £7.20 minimum wage increase is an opportunity to grow your business The £7.20 minimum wage increase is a blessing to those over 25 currently earning the national living wage, but a headache to company owners and shareholders seeking to maximise profits. Many of those in[...]
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[...]
CIPD Annual Conference 2015 It was a pleasure to be present at the CIPD Annual Conference 2015 this year. If you were one of those who stopped to talk to us at our stand – thank you! As all those lovely HR professionals became increasingly ‘Conferenced[...]
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.[...]
How To Increase Employee Engagement Employee engagement is a big deal. Those that get it right outperform competitors on every scale that matters. Revenue growth, customer service, innovation, staff health, accidents at work… the list goes on. So how is it that according to Gallup[...]
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[...]
