Managers are leaving and your best team members are unlikely to want to step into their shoes. How are they feeling and what can you do? I’ve commented before on the current middle management shift, and an article I read recently in Fortune highlighted in detail the pressures and problem
An introductory guide to using scenario planning for smaller businesses During a recent workshop with a client I was once again reminded of the usefulness of scenario planning. I thought it was a great time to reshare a really simple model you can use in your business to try and
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This article is centred around something I discovered for myself through my own personal coaching – namely being too busy leading that I wasn’t making the time to learn. Here’s the thing. If you’re the founder of a business – or indeed a leader of any sort within a business
An idea that came to me a couple of weeks ago after a friend pointed out a potential problem with the name of one of our LinkedIn events, ‘Slack Slavery’. He noted the sensitivities around using the word, even when it was certainly referring to being at the mercy of
Primarily, the article is about hats. In a small business, it’s sometimes difficult to be clear about your role at any given time. But, if you’re both a shareholder and a part of the leadership team – it’s so important to have absolute clarity about which of those roles you’re playing when
