High Growth Blog

Date: February 16th, 2019
Category: Blog | Leadership

Re-reading Steve Jobs biography his extremely high expectations once again stood out. He challenged himself to work smarter, work longer, and work harder so he could accomplish everything he dreamed possible. Jobs believed the future was something we can all determine and maybe even more important, Steve Jobs believed in the fundamental power of belief…

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Date: February 9th, 2019
Category: Blog | Team

Attracting the best people to come work for your company will take some strategy: strong employer branding, a great job candidate experience through the recruitment cycle, and good pay and benefits to seal the deal. However you also need a strategy that works to your advantage – finding job candidates with the right characteristics that lead to a high performing…

Tags: | recruitment

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Date: February 2nd, 2019
Category: Blog | Leadership

With different communication styles this can cause several challenges when these two personality types have to work together. Without this proper understanding, extroverts can feel that introverts are antisocial, while introverts see extroverts as overbearing. Yet despite their differences, introverts and extroverts can work together effectively, learning skills from each other. Here are four lessons…

Tags: | communication, leadership

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Date: January 19th, 2019
Category: Blog | Leadership

The key reason businesses fail is poor leadership. You could start with a unique, valuable idea and recruit a talented, motivated team, but even the best plans and perfect timing don’t make up for weak leadership. Problems can happen to anyone – BREXIT, sudden competition, a failed launch – but such problems are rarely the…

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Category: Blog | Leadership

In a world where we are connected digitally more than ever before you’d think we’d all have perfected our communication skills. However, the fact is, we tend to make things much more complicated than they need to be, especially in business. Bill Gates once said, “I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication…

Tags: | communication

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Date: January 12th, 2019
Category: Blog | Leadership

Businesses often fail not because they don’t follow the right formula; it’s because they don’t focus on what not to do. Those beneficial characteristics which can make CEO’s a success can also lead to their downfall. For example, excessive confidence and unchecked ambition make up a recipe for self-destruction. According to a Science Direct publication,…

Tags: | leadership

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Date: January 5th, 2019
Category: Blog | Leadership

Work-life balance can seem like an impossible feat. In fact, an amazing 94% of working professionals reported working more than 50 hours per week and nearly half said they worked more than 65 hours per week in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Work-life balance means something different to every individual, but below I share…

Tags: | leadership energy, time management

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Date: December 15th, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.” Jim Rohn As we move into 2019, it is that time of year when we start personal…

Tags: | goal setting

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Date: December 6th, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

A recent study carried out by Development Dimensions International, highlights empathy as the biggest single leadership skill needed today. In the US some companies I have worked with believe that empathy is so important that they send managers to “empathy training.” Here are five reasons that empathy is becoming the number one leadership skill: Increased loyalty One…

Tags: | leadership

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Date: November 29th, 2018
Category: Leadership | Team

A growth mindset amongst your team is critical to creating the right kind of environment in which individuals can thrive while your company grows. Growing your talent from the bottom up is both cost effective and successful, and staff are more engaged and encouraged to help the company grow as they do. Below are four…

Tags: | mindset

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