...achieving the best in people for profitable success
...achieving the best in people for profitable success
Is succession something you don’t talk about? In the general busy environment, does it have time to feature in your strategic thinking? It is a subject that people are often loath to broach, especially in family run businesses, as it can be an emotive subject. It can be a difficult subject to discuss but putting …
The distractions in our lives have been proliferating for a long time, but the Internet is a medium that is programmed to insistently and wildly scatter our attention . As revolutionary as it may be, the Net is the latest in a long series of tools that have helped mould the human mind. The Internet …
Strategic leadership is critical for success, especially in rapidly changing and uncertain times. The danger for business leaders can be that they focus too much on the detail of day-to-day issues. It is important, therefore, to get your head up to look at the bigger picture. You can then define and drive your strategic objectives. …
As furlough comes to an end and nearly all restrictions are removed, more people are returning to the workplace, but how do you ensure they are fit for work? No one would expect to be able to get up from a couch and run a marathon and similarly with many months not working, can we …
The impact of our words can be good or bad. Many of us will have heard the expression ‘sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you’. Whilst I understand the sentiment, I would like to contest this. From my experiences and of those I have worked with over many years, …
Virtual meetings are here to stay even when we can get back to meeting face-to-face. They offer a cheaper and more efficient means of communicating, but they need to be effective. Thank goodness we have the technology and that it keeps improving its offering, but we need to evolve our skills and behaviours to match …
Whether you are currently coping or cooping is an important question. Which are you doing? What is the difference? The importance of this difference was starkly brought home to me recently by the experiences of a friend. Cope means to deal with and attempt to overcome problems and difficulties. Whereas coop means to confine in …
Unconscious bias is having social stereotypes about certain groups of people and forms outside of conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups, because humans like to organize and categorise to make sense of the world. Natural survival of the human species has been determined by our ability to recognise friend …
What I love about running a workshop is when a delegate comes up with a great challenging question. On the working with ego workshop recently, I was asked how do we tell between perceptions and reality? This led me to do some research and run a couple more workshops to explore this topic further. Despite …
For many large and global companies, leading virtually with remote teams is nothing new. However, for smaller businesses, the covid pandemic of 2020 has forced them into a strange new world. This step change would normally have taken years to bring about in ‘normal’ times. The shift has been colossal and not without opportunities and …
As we go into another lockdown and an uncertain winter, our mental wellbeing is under threat, so we need a SCARF to help us through. SCARF is a model developed at the Neuroleadership Institute, based on neuroscience research. It represents the interpersonal primary rewards or threats that are important to the brain. Status – Certainty – Autonomy …
Mental resilience is going to be vital in the months ahead in this prolonged pandemic. We are truly in adverse conditions, with some affected much more than others. It is our ability to bounce back which will see us through. The human species has faced adversity in the past through war, plague, ethnic cleansing, financial …
“How do you battle with ego?” was a question I was asked recently by a delegate. This immediately raised two further questions for me. Should we be battling with ego or working with it; and whose ego are we talking about, theirs or ours? The response I got to the latter question was ‘Theirs of …
More employees are coming in from furlough as restrictions are eased. In this instance, I have not used the term ‘back from furlough’, as it is unlikely that things are ‘back to normal’. A new normal now exists with many changes having to take place. So how do leaders handle motivation, teamwork and mental resilience …
More and more people are talking about pandemic fatigue. We speak about fatigue in materials when there is a weakness or a wearing out from overuse. The human mind can also become overused when constantly in a stressed situation for long periods. No one would doubt that this has been a stressful time with anxiety, …
