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16/02/2023 No Comments

Say Goodbye to Boring Meetings


Does this sound like your company’s leadership team meetings? They’re an interruption. They distract you from real work and eat up valuable time. They’re random. You only meet when there’s fires to put out, and it’s a painfully chaotic proc... Read More

09/02/2023 No Comments

Incentivise, Incentivise, Incentivise


When your employees perform half-heartedly on the job, there is usually a simple reason why. A critical aspect of managing staff is incentivising them to do excellent work. Here’s a simple truth: when people’s earnings are tied to their p... Read More

24/01/2023 No Comments

Why Business Owners Need To Be Team Coaches


Once there was a time when the manager’s job was to supervise and control the people they managed – that is, to tell them what to do, help them to do it properly, measure their performance and reward are correct that performance as needed. Those ... Read More

17/01/2023 No Comments

7 Leadership Mistakes That Destroy Team Performance


If you create a sound strategy and execute against it but don’t create an environment where people can do their best work, the likelihood of the strategy failing is high. The leader’s actions and behaviour significantly impact the environment and... Read More

05/01/2023 No Comments

Where Are You On The Entrepreneurial Ladder?


What are the first three words that come to mind when I say the word money? Well, it opens up a lot of things, doesn’t it? I often hear is things like cash, income & capital. Others say strapped, broke & debt. Some say bills, payments &a... Read More

15/12/2022 No Comments

4 Simple Steps to Recruiting Quality Candidates


Do you find it difficult to attract the right kind of employees? The fact is most businesses don’t do enough to attract the right people. In a market like this, when potential employees can have their pick of multiple job offers – you need to... Read More

08/12/2022 No Comments

How Well Do You Know Your People?


  If you struggle to keep your staff motivated, effective, and engaged, there is a powerful solution to your problem. When you take an honest inventory of the state of your staff and determine how well you’re doing, what are your results?Â... Read More

01/12/2022 No Comments

Six Characteristics of Healthy Teams


When it comes to your employees, do they work as a cohesive unit, or are there factions, backbiting, slacking off, and complaining? There is an important principle a business owner must understand if you want to create a work environment where people... Read More

20/10/2022 No Comments

Is It Time To Hire A Business Coach?


In current circumstances, when revenue is down, and business owners are looking to trim expenses, it might seem inappropriate to consider increasing expenditures by hiring a business coach. However, if you invested £15k per annum in coaching and th... Read More

13/10/2022 No Comments

Delegate, Delegate, Delegate


Do you find yourself spending a lot of your time doing menial tasks that don’t help your business move forward? The management consultant and author Peter Drucker once remarked that, when it comes to a company’s overall performance, the â... Read More