Does it sometimes feel as if you spend all day in meetings, yet any real work has to be done outside them? Here are four ways to turn this around and make your meetings more productive. The real problem is that your meetings aren't really snappy or productive enough....
Let’s say you’ve been tasked with finding expert outside help to support you in an important piece of work for which you don’t have the relevant expertise in house. You may need support in developing your team and organisation, from the likes of Leaders Lab maybe. Or...
Every organisation has its own unique culture. This can seem obvious to outsiders, but for those working in the organisation it can often feel invisible. Imagine a goldfish that’s swimming around in water that has no idea it’s swimming around in water. The culture of...
One of the the most common questions we are asked by clients and potential clients is how to motivate people. When we explore their reasons for asking, it seems that they see ‘motivating people’ as the answer to issues as diverse as: People not doing what they are...
Are you plagued with people bringing you issues to sort out? Do you find you are interrupted one minute by somebody complaining about their inability to get an answer from some other department or outside agency, the next by somebody bemoaning the inability of other...
What do you do when one of your best fee earners walks into your office, hands you his resignation and tells you he has accepted a job with your competitor? This happened to a client of ours recently and during the course of their subsequent conversation he offered to...
Let’s imagine you go to the doctor with a pain all across your lower back and down your left leg. When you go into the doctor, you sit down and say, ‘I know exactly what I need, Doc. I’ve got this pain; if you’ll just do me a prescription for these specific named...
Do you worry that one of the reasons you won’t meet your targets is because your team doesn’t behave like a team? Do you feel that you’re constantly on the back foot and unsupported by a group of people who are divisive, won’t share information with each other and...
Do you find yourself complaining that you spend much of your time ‘firefighting’? It’s seems to be one of the diseases of the busy times we live in. But what do we mean by ‘firefighting’ – and if it’s such a problem, why don’t we just stop doing it? Firefighting is...
elle is a bespoke coaching and networking programme developed by The Legacy List (now Foundation for Future London) in collaboration with Leaders Lab to inspire the next generation of women creative leaders in East London. The first phase ran between October 2014 and...
Find out how to create and manage a brilliant culture that underpins a truly successful growing business.
Find out how to create and manage a brilliant culture that underpins a truly successful growing business.