"Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to." - Katharine Whitehorn We’ve all been there: the meeting that drags on endlessly, achieves little, and leaves everyone wondering...
When it comes to understanding your organisation, how deep does your knowledge go? Not just the finances, production or structure, but the people: their mindsets, culture, and attitudes? These intangible factors can see your business thrive or bog it down in politics,...
Leading a team isn’t always plain sailing. You might catch yourself thinking: “Why don’t they just get on with it?” “I’ve got enough on my plate - why do I have to keep checking up on them?” “Managing them feels like babysitting. When will they take responsibility...
We all know our technical skills - the ones we spent years studying, training for, and refining. These are the qualifications on your CV, the tools of your trade. And then there are social skills - the way you connect, listen, and navigate relationships. These you...
Specialists - engineers, doctors, teachers, architects etc - often find themselves promoted not just for their technical skill but because they’ve become indispensable voices in their field. But what happens when climbing the ladder shifts the job away from hands-on...
Ever feel like your job is just putting out fires? "They all want pay rises, but we’re not making enough money." "Nobody documents anything—we’re flying blind." "I only hear about problems when they’ve become emergencies." "All I seem to do is make myself unpopular."...
What exactly is this employee ownership thing, then? Simply speaking, EO is a form of exit strategy for a founder who wants to extract value from their business before finally leaving to retire or to do other projects. The usual way to achieve this is a commercial...
Are you plagued by complaints from your team members about others? Do you find they expect you to do something about ‘personality clashes’? Like these..? He’s making my life a misery, looking over my shoulder and meddling in my work She can’t be trusted to do her job...
If you’re the MD of an SME and don’t have time to read this article, then you definitely need to read it. Don’t worry - we’ll keep it short and to the point. A common theme with SMEs is to have periods of stability then, due to success of one sort or another,...
Imagine this situation. Fred is in your sales team and at the end of every month Fred misses his sales target because his customers never pay their invoices on time. It’s the end of the month and once again Fred is in your office looking very sorry for...
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