The mental downtime your brain needs…
Category: Blog | Leadership
Over the past few decades, it has become clearer that being “on” 24/7/365 is not a recipe for success. Discussions about work life balance and the need to take holidays are signs that we understand that getting away from work is important for mental and physical health. However, it I also useful to dig a little more…
Tags: | leadership energy, Self Leadership
Habits not to bring back to the office post-pandemic
Category: Blog | Leadership
As the pace of vaccinations continues to accelerate, employers are spending a lot of time determining how to safely bring people back into the office. However, health and safety measures are not the only aspects of workplaces that need to evolve. Leaders should use this opportunity to depart from office norms that no longer serve…
Tags: | coronavirus
Are you a “yes” person?
Category: Blog | Leadership
I often work with clients who are too accommodating to others, resulting in personal frustration and lack of progress. Not surprisingly, saying “yes” all the time makes you feel stressed and allows others to value your time even less. If you say “yes” often enough, people will come to expect it which becomes a self…
Tags: | leadership, Self Leadership
Flexibility and choice – the new way of working
Category: Blog | Leadership | Team
As we get closer to what we hope is the end of the pandemic, businesses are faced with a new challenge: how to bring people back to work. It’s not a small thing to consider when and how to get your team back in the office safely or, whether that’s something you should do at…
Tags: | coronavirus, culture
The truth about employee engagement
Category: Blog | Leadership | Team
Engaged employees are the key to business success. It’s clear that the more engaged your people are, the better off your company will be. Below are five insights about employee engagement that you need to know if you’d like to create engaged teams and realise the benefits. The majority of your employees are likely to…
Tags: | management
Are you dying of indigestion or starvation?
Category: Blog | Team
Businesses are more likely to die of indigestion (overeating) than starvation. In startup mode, businesses are often big eater’s. They want to do and try everything. In scale-up mode, that type of over-eating can be dangerous and waste your team’s time. So, how do you control your appetite? I recommend using a document called PSPOT,…
Tags: | management, strategy, team
The secrets to running a team remotely….
Category: Blog | Team
Even before Covid 19, remote work was on the rise. Unsurprisingly, many businesses have found that remote work makes it increasingly difficult to preserve their company culture. After all, benefits such as childcare, happy hours, and social lunches don’t mean much if you’re not on site. What’s more, remote work has the potential to inhibit…
Tags: | leadership, remote
How leaders can learn, lead and grow
Category: Blog | Leadership
I am a big fan of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. One thing these iconic leaders have in common is that they are veracious readers (Bill Gates reads about 50 books a year). Although I cannot even begin to compare myself to them, I do have the lifelong commitment to learn and grow intellectually while…
Tags: | learning
4 Customer experience trends to reflect on
Category: Blog | Strategy
From talking to both clients and many businesses over the last year one thing is clear: How to best serve customers as a company is in a state of flux. Accepting that the ways we operated in the past might not serve our business or our customers in the best way in the landscape that…
Tags: | coronavirus, Customer Experience, Customers
How to embrace conflict as a leader
Category: Leadership
The speed of your success as a leader will be determined by your ability to have difficult conversations. What many leaders don’t realise, or perhaps ignore, is that managing an individual includes having difficult conversations and managing conflict. No matter how high your emotional intelligence (EQ) is, you won’t agree with everyone. It is your…
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