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...
by Amanda Baines | Mar 30, 2016 | Organisation Culture
In organisations where finger-pointing is rife, it is likely that there is a pervasive blame culture. This will inevitably have a damaging effect on the success of your business. We give you five ways of turning this around, with a set of effective groundrules to...
by Amanda Baines | Mar 24, 2016 | Organisation Culture
Every organisation needs a reward system for employees that addresses the following four areas:- Compensation Benefits Recognition Appreciation The problem with many organisations is that too often the focus is on the first two elements of compensation and benefits....