Do your peers and staff trust you and follow your business leadership? Or are they hesitant to move forward so that progress is slow? Are you frustrated that the business is not aligned, not delivering the results it should be? Is now the time to change all that? Over and over I see business leaders […]
3 ways ineffective leadership is blocking your firm’s progress, and sending your staff mad
Is it time to make faster business progress? Could your leadership actually be part of the problem? Have you had enough of mediocre results or peaks and troughs that make it so hard to move forward? Recently, I have met a startling number of business people who are tearing their hair out because the leadership […]
How will you build business momentum to steam ahead?
An employee said: “Our company is just bobbing along, going nowhere fast. We have lost business momentum.” This comment really resonated with me because it seems to describe so many firms. Are you happy with your business results? 2,921 companies in the UK alone grew at 15% or more over each of the past 3 […]
Silo thinking will stop business growth dead
I have been lucky enough to work for some of the world’s largest companies. It always amazes me how senior management bemoan how their teams work separately, in silos, yet do not realise this problem comes directly from them and kills business growth. It also concerns me that they do not do whatever it takes […]
How to create wonderful staff engagement – an unstoppable army
Two of the biggest challenges Chief Executives ask me about are: Why aren’t my staff engaged…. more productive? When they clearly have far greater ability, why do they keep on asking the same basic (boring) questions over and over? Why are they not thinking for themselves? Conventional wisdom on staff engagement really does not help. […]
How to Smash Staff Performance Levels
Business leaders are asking: “How can I improve staff performance – to achieve more without increasing costs?” The dynamic is wrong – staff mainly come to work to pay the bills. Team that achieve outstanding business results are very different. A team that inspires The Red Arrows air display team is a great analogy: 9 red […]
How to Smash Staff Performance Levels and Productivity
Business leaders are asking: “How can I improve productivity? How can I get my people to achieve more – to do more without increasing costs?” The problem is that the dynamic is wrong. Staff mainly come to work to pay the bills. Teams that achieve outstanding business results are very different…. you need start by building […]