Let’s face it - managing people can feel like herding cats, especially when everyone seems to have a different idea of what “accountability” actually means. Maybe you’ve worked hard on your own leadership skills (see Can we count on you?) but find yourself asking,...
Is there a disconnect between your company initiatives and team morale? You’ve restructured, spent on branding, defined company values - yet the spark still seems absent. Here are some familiar frustrations: “I’ve restructured the team, but they still aren’t...
One of the biggest surprises for employees (and sometimes even managers) in a scaling organisation is how promotions actually work—or rather, how they should work. Too often, people fall into one of two flawed assumptions: “They’re an amazing...
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."...
There is a point, when human beings come together, that a group of individuals becomes an organisation. Like a hive of bees, a group of people is an organism. And organisms have rules of their own which, operating at their best, override a narrow focus on individual...
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...
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....
When did you last see your job description? Well..? Thought so… Here’s something for you to try. Forget your ‘to-do’ list just for the moment, and don’t look at your job description, even if you’ve found it by now. Now, write down the things that it is your job to...
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...
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.