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...
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‘This team ain’t big enough for the both of us!’ Here’s what leaders need to do…
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...
Do you have time to read this?
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,...
Why you won’t need your charger: stop rescuing people – here’s what leaders do instead!
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...
Sssh, I’m outta here – the art of disappearing in plain sight
Quiet Quitting isn’t just some fad on TikTok, Gallup analysis recently published shows it’s a real-life wakeup call for leaders. The Gallup Organisation’s Global Workplace Report for 2023 was published recently, and shows disturbing levels of employee disengagement....
Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana…
Did you work it out? Because that’s exactly the sort of puzzle that distinguishes a human from AI. In the Turing Test, an AI computer and a human are asked questions to determine which is human. If the computer is indistinguishable from the human, it passes the Turing...
Bully for you. Are you aggressive or simply ‘robust’ in the workplace? Here are 3 key points about the so-called ‘bullying threshold’
The recent resignation of Dominic Raab has focused attention on what constitutes workplace bullying. Examples of bullying behaviour usually include undermining someone, spreading lies, and unfair treatment. But it’s a grey area. Part of the problem is there’s no...
Resilience vs Resolutions: Choosing to bounce back instead of breaking down
At Leaders Lab we’re not big fans of New Year’s Resolutions. This is because usually and unwittingly you set yourself up to fail. This year instead, we’d like to shift the focus away from failing at your New Year’s Resolutions to working on your New Year’s...
It’s Hallowe’en – have you been ghosted yet?
Have you ever been ‘ghosted’? That potential customer who seemed so interested in doing business with you, then never came back? The job interviewer who seemed so keen, then went silent and stopped returning your emails and calls? The enthusiastic young applicant for...
I quit (Shhh…)“Quiet quitting” – the new trend in the workplace. What it means for your organisation, and what you can do about it.
The seismic changes at work brought on by the pandemic are continuing. As a business leader you’re not only dealing with hybrid working and the Great Resignation, but there’s now a new trend, and it’s called ‘quiet quitting’. What does it mean for your organisation?...
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