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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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