High Growth Blog

Date: June 22nd, 2017
Category: Leadership

Recently IBM surveyed 1,500 chief executive officers from 60 countries and found the number one factor that CEOs use to predict future success is creativity. Being creative allows CEOs to adapt to market changes, and adopt innovative new practices. However the research noted that despite its importance, most CEOs have little time to develop their…

Tags: | creativity, time management

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Date: June 15th, 2017
Category: Blog | Team

Have you ever met someone out networking who told you about their company while gleaming with pride, which made you think, “I would love to work there”. Experiences like these are the reason why companies that focus on cultivating a great culture and communicating that culture externally drive excellent business results, retain employees and generally…

Tags: | culture

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Date: June 9th, 2017
Category: Strategy Implementation

As I write this, we’ve woken up to the news that the election has created a hung parliament. The result was not expected by most people or pollsters. Yet we didn’t need to stay up through the night to get that news; we simply needed to see the 10pm exit poll. Last night the exit poll was…

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Date: June 4th, 2017
Category: Blog | Team

A high growth business culture often incorporates an ‘all work; no play’ mentality. I’ve certainly had my share of those days where you just push through and work all night to get something done. That kind of work ethic is not sustainable long term. A recent UK study found that entrepreneurs work an average of…

Tags: | culture, leadership

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Date: May 19th, 2017
Category: Leadership

There comes a time for most successful business people where a wall hits you. Emotion and energy disappears. Tiredness creeps in, and all that is wanted is a regular salary. The business that you once loved you start hating. So how do you rekindle the passion and energy for your business? Here are four tips…

Tags: | motivation

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Date: May 12th, 2017
Category: Leadership | Strategy

The most important step in achieving any goals is identifying everything that’s standing in your way. Most people don’t seek out obstacles. It can be tough to get past them and daunting sometimes to even think about them. For many successful business leaders, though, obstacles are actually a necessity. They come up whenever they create…

Tags: | leadership, Strategy Development

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Date: May 3rd, 2017
Category: Blog | Leadership | Team

One question I am often asked is how can coaching skills be rolled out to other leaders and managers in an organisation. Whilst, I would always advocate a great coaching course , a good start is provided by Michael Bungay Stanier in his book The Coaching Habit,. Here he puts forward the proposition that a…

Tags: | management

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Date: April 13th, 2017
Category: Leadership | Team

Over the last few weeks a number of companies I have coached have been addressing the pains employees go through during periods of rapid growth. Below I share three of them along with simple strategies to overcome them. Growing pain 1: Isolation. All companies  have team members who work on specialised activities and tasks. With…

Tags: | Change

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Date: April 8th, 2017
Category: Blog | Leadership

In today’s busy world, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to accomplish everything that needs to get done. As a result, our chaotic schedules can elevate stress levels and make it increasingly difficult for us to spend quality time with friends and family. However, there are ways to shorten a work week with…

Tags: | time management

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Date: March 22nd, 2017
Category: Leadership

Leaders of growth companies are pulled in all sorts of directions from employees, customers, shareholders, peers and more. So how does a leader within an organisation manage their time effectively when it comes to people and who do they take the time to see and be with? Here are a few guidelines you may wish…

Tags: | time management

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