by Amanda Baines | Apr 29, 2015 | Leadership
Creating high performance always sounds like a good idea. Right now, as we adjust to a world that is changing very fast around us, delivering high performance is probably more important but more challenging than ever. We are surrounded by negative news. Our British...
by Amanda Baines | Apr 27, 2015 | Organisation Culture
You have probably never focused as tightly on driving revenue and reducing costs as you do today. People in business are working under great pressure; job security is a thing of the past; and the only thing that really seems to matter is ‘making the numbers’. As a...
by Kate Mercer | Apr 5, 2015 | Organisation Culture
In Friday’s post, we explored the first ’switch point’ in the life of your business. Let’s take a look at the second… At the second switch point, at around the £5-10m+ turnover and 40+ employee mark, your business moves out of the consolidation...
by Kate Mercer | Apr 3, 2015 | Organisation Culture
There are times in the life of your business when it changes direction. It can be easy to miss the moment and find yourself looking back later thinking, “what happened?” It’s almost as if you were driving the train, when suddenly it hit the points...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 27, 2015 | Organisation Culture
In conversations with business contacts over the years about leadership courses, I have found myself reflecting that there are really only two kinds of leadership or management model – and the two kinds have very different purposes and effects. The first kind of...
