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Revisiting 2019: What Did We Learn?

If you’ve been following me for a while, you may have seen an article I wrote in January of this...

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Managing Under-Performance or Driving Over-Performance?

Any business leader will know that sometimes, although all lights were green at interview stage, ...

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Coaching Vs Training and How To Improve Staff Retention

Training, mentoring, coaching and managing – so many verbs, so little time. As a business leader...

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Driven to Distraction – Why Your Staff May Be Underperforming

Driven to Distraction – Why Your Staff May Be UnderperformingAre you easily distracted?Since tim...

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How to Identify and Hire for Growth Mindset

Mindset. It sounds cliché, but it’s undeniably important. If there’s one thing which is prevalent...

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Thriving or Surviving? 3 Warning Signs & 3 Things to Encourage

There’s a big difference between doing well, and just doing. There’s an even bigger difference be...

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3 Key Points to Your Post-Covid People Strategy

It’s turned our world upside down, our economy inside out and, frankly, some of us around the ben...

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Motivating Your Team By Finding Meaningfulness

As a manager, it can often feel impossible to do your own job to its best, fight all the fires w...

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3 things every new manager should do during their first 30 days on the job

Management. It’s a new height in your career and one which many, nay the majority of us aspire t...

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At what level should you be hiring?

It can sometimes be difficult to confidently ascertain what level you should be hiring at. Are yo...

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How to be an Inclusive Leader

In today’s world, successfully building a diverse workforce is like wearing a badge of honour – ...

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Your Pandemic Job Search

To say these are troubling times for those currently out of work, would be something of an under...

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Keeping in touch with furloughed employees: we’re all in this together.

We’re all learning right now. I can honestly say, as a business owner for almost 20 years, I for ...

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Mind Blanking – why it happens, and how to manage it

Mind Blanking – why it happens, and how to manage itWe’ve all been there.Someone asks you a ques...

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Marketing: Mentor or Manager?

Marketing: such a broad term, yet one which so many people want to work within. In fact, accordin...

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Ostrich Management: why it doesn’t work

We humans are an interesting bunch – despite there being no scientific evidence that ostriches d...

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Employee Absenteeism: what could be causing it, and how to combat it

Now, I must let you know – this article has been in the works for a little while. That it now ha...

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Burnout is a real thing – and you need to avoid it at all costs

burn outphrasal verb of burn1.be completely consumed and thus no longer aflame.Sound like anyone...

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My Personal Musings: Education or Experience?

As the owner of a successful, London-based recruitment company, it might not surprise you to hea...

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Marketing: Agency or Employee?

Marketing is a funny one, in terms of a ‘business function’. It’s largely regarded as one the ea...