We explain why most ‘team-building’ activities are, at best, a waste of time and, at worst, damaging for your team's morale. Do you get that sinking feeling when someone (your MD? HR? A keen colleague?) suggests you ‘do some team-building’? Do you have ghastly visions...
Most important work in organisations is not done by one person in isolation; it most often involves individuals and groups working together. In this article we make four simple suggestions for stopping the finger-pointing and restoring harmony. Why is it so unusual to...
As a leader, it’s your job to spot what’s going right. To do that, you must habitually make it your business to find out. Here are five good reasons why you should make the effort. So many organisational leaders seem to regard it as their job to spot things that are...
According to Neil Crofts of Holos, two essential prerequisites for creating a business that delivers sustained success for all of its stakeholders, from employees to society, and that will profit and grow for years on end are ‘forward looking and outstanding...
It often helps in leading your organisation to think of a three-legged stool: strategy, performance and culture. We use this analogy in working with business leaders who wonder, for example, why business is going like a train, they know where they are going and are...
What skills do you think you need in order to be really successful at work? It may seem obvious; you need, of course, to have very good technical skills, by which I mean you need to be an excellent lawyer, wealth manager, estate agent, manufacturer or whatever it is...
What’s your philosophy on running your car? Do you pride yourself on how smoothly it runs and the perfection of its paintwork and appearance, taking it to the garage at the first hint of a little bump, or a window switch not working properly? Or do you run it until...
As you’ve risen up your organisation and become a senior manager or even CEO, the balance of your ‘day job’ has had to shift. If you work in professional services you probably retain some of the client-facing work and it’s likely that you still have a financial...
If you manage a team and you all really enjoy coming to work, it’s sometimes hard to understand why the buzz you experience doesn’t always lead to outstanding results. You have a laugh, you enjoy your meetings, it’s a pleasure being part of the team, but do you ever...
Do you find yourself feeling that you can’t trust people in your business to do what you want them to do? It’s a common complaint among business leaders, and their usual assumption is that there is something wrong with the people they employ. Among the knee-jerk...
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.