by Amanda Baines | May 14, 2016 | Team Development
It’s easy to spot a really dysfunctional team in an organisation. People are political, don’t support each other, are confrontational, divisive and they don’t actually do what they say they’re going to do. At Leaders Lab we rarely have to deal with a senior team in...
by Amanda Baines | May 6, 2016 | Leadership
We will all have had some personal experience of following a ‘leader’. At a very early age our ‘leader’ may have been the primary school teacher who inspired us (or terrified us). Later in life it may be the CEO who runs the organisation where we work, or the...
by Amanda Baines | Apr 29, 2016 | Leadership, Team Development
If you’re a senior executive in professional services it’s unlikely that you yourself are one of the millennials. However if you are a lawyer, wealth manager, estate agent or similar it’s very likely that you will be recruiting and managing this particular generation,...
by Amanda Baines | Apr 20, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
What skills do you think you need in order to be really successful at work? It may seem obvious; you need, of course, to have very good technical skills, by which I mean you need to be an excellent lawyer, wealth manager, estate agent, manufacturer or whatever it is...
by Amanda Baines | Apr 7, 2016 | Organisation Culture
As you’ve risen up your organisation and become a senior manager or even CEO, the balance of your ‘day job’ has had to shift. If you work in professional services you probably retain some of the client-facing work and it’s likely that you still have a financial...
