The Covid-19 pandemic need not sound a deathknell for your business. Take the opportunity to regroup and rethink your strategies, and come out the other side more resilient and better equipped to deal with turmoil.
Organisation Culture
The platform is burning: Are you and your business ready for the new way of working?
Covid-19 has pitched businesses into a situation where all the rules have changed. Instead of moving forwards through the business growth cycle, you might now be in danger of lurching backwards. As a leader, it’s up to you not only to recognise this, but to take advantage of the opportunities it brings.
What’s in it for me? The rise of the entitled employee in SMEs
When can I expect promotion? How much will my next pay rise be? Can we have better social and leisure facilities? How much will you pay me for taking on more responsibility? Does it sometimes seem that your employees expect your company to deliver ever more and better...
Is there really a big secret to managing millennials?
As a contributing editor to inc.com, Jeff Haden has recently published an article entitled 'A Study of 600,000 People Shows the Secret to Managing Millennials Is to Quit Thinking of Them as Millennials'. It's a timely and essential read, and we couldn't agree with...
Accountability vs responsibility
Take a look at job descriptions in almost any organisation. You’ll find they’re broad statements of areas of responsibility or lists of activities. Job descriptions like this are concerned with activity rather than output, and fuel the culture of ‘hard work’ and long...
How far ahead are you planning?
In a thought-provoking post from Neil Crofts, he looks at the effect of short-term planning on the way we live and work, and whether we should be challenging our notion of this. Most of us when we are young find it difficult to think more than a short time ahead. As...
Is your company a bolshy adolescent?
I’ve written an article recently on how your organisation changes as it grows and what you need to look out for. It’s why keeping tabs on everything often seems to get harder over time. Perhaps the answer, though, is to make some simple changes to your management...
How to set clear and measurable SMART objectives
Creating clear, measurable objectives and holding others to account for them is one of the most important practical skills of a leader. There is a real skill to capturing clearly and precisely the essence of what needs to be achieved, while making sure it is easily...
Set some groundrules so you can hold more effective meetings
Some of the most important work you ever do is done in meetings, so set some clear groundrules to be able to work more effectively together. “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...
Stop meddling and get on with running your business
Your job as a leader is to focus on your vision for the business and to learn to talk to people in a way that motivates them to buy into it. Here's why and how it's so important. There are good teachers who never write on a blackboard. There are talented engineers who...
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.