How to get the most from your vision
Crafting a vision can take time, however ensuring that it can be spoken by your people, suppliers and even customers is just as important. This article gives three actions...
Twenty questions to assess your leadership performance
I recently posted a blog on LinkedIn which invited people to take a leadership performance assessment based on how “authentic” they were. The assessment is based on the excellent book...
The Leadership Radar
Growing your business is very much like driving your car. You need to have a focus on three levels.
First of all, the longer-term view down the road. Are you heading...
3 steps to more sales
Some time ago, I wrote a blog called the 5/5/5 marketing approach. Whilst coaching a client the other day about growing her business, I adapted this to fit in with...
3 No-Cost Ways to Protect your IP
Whenever I am coaching senior leaders, I ask them what they have in place to protect their intellectual property. Many of them answer - "well, we don't really have any...
Why First Line Manager Training is so Important
I often say to myself and hear others say, "If only I had known how to motivate, lead and manage people earlier in my career". The first years in a career are...
The 5 Priorities for Leaders
During my leadership development programmes, there is great discussion about what makes a leader great. Many of the leaders I coach are dramatically growing their businesses in rapidly changing environments....
I’ve been on the training course….now what?
Are you the Head of Leadership & Development struggling to demonstrate the return on investment of people attending leadership training? Does your organisation then experience the risk of people returning,...
So what are you going to do?
I have had two conversations recently with Senior Executives who have had to have a "performance management" conversation with one of their employees. In each case, they positioned the conversation...
3 Key Messages to Great Leadership
During my coaching, I meet great inspirational, inspiring, focused leaders who have the energy and commitment to succeed....