Many leaders don’t know how to say no. Others say it almost reflexively. How to get the balance right.
Category: Advice
Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Effective communication for leaders
Think of those you know who make good leaders. Are they innovative and creative? Are they analytical and concise? Are they good at juggling shareholders and banks? Most leaders are at least one if not all of these and more. However, these talents are of little use if they cannot be communicated well.
The challenge of taking over from an incompetent team leader
Becoming the leader of an existing team can be challenging, but taking over from an incompetent leader is more difficult.
Equal pay nightmares or justifiable differences?
A client of mine has two people who work side by side. They look like they do the same job and I question it every time; ‘why is he paid more than her?’ and I get the same answer – ‘because he has more skills than she does’.
Funding start-ups & growing small businesses
Entrepreneurship is continuing to thrive in the UK, despite the tough economic conditions we have weathered in recent years.
The Best Time To Start A Business Is During An Economic Downturn
The thought of starting a business now would seem to many a bad idea indeed. These are the days of austerity, surely we need to keep our heads down, take stock of what we have and bide our time until this is over.
7 Ways To Make Your Presentation Message Stick
You’re one of 50 speakers at a major conference. This is an opportunity to shine and put your business on the map… so how you can be sure that your presentation will stand out – and, even more importantly, that the delegates will remember your message?
Are you a Joker, Destroyer or Interrogator?
Being angry is natural. It happens. It is part of life and part of being human, and being clever humans, we have developed different ways of disguising and communicating that we are angry.
Shut Up: Talk Less—and Get More Out of Your Employees
You already know not to find fault with your team member in a meeting, bark orders at your staff, or correct an employee in front of a customer.
So what’s’ reasonable’ when considering the duty to make reasonable adjustments?
I am working with several clients currently who have employees who for one reason or another can no longer do the job for which they are employed.
How to put innovation at the heart of everything you do
Jane Galsworthy from GrowthAccelerator, the coaching service that helps ambitious businesses achieve high growth, looks at how small and medium sized businesses can foster ‘intrapreneurship’ to maintain their competitive edge as they grow.
How to manage irrational employees
Everyone has their own biases. But strongly-held biases, especially those based on false information, can be lethal to a company.
Preparing for a New Era of Growth
The economy appears on the brink of an upturn. Global opportunities are increasing and there are clear signs that overseas investors are looking hard at UK businesses once more.
Five ways to describe yourself in business
The business world has always been plagued by more than its fair share of meaningless jargon. Maybe it’s the twitter effect, but the number of snappy-sounding but vacuous phrases has grown.
Turning your staff from obedient partners into active participants
You can tell the people who run businesses and have trouble engaging certain members of staff: they’re the ones with large red marks on their foreheads from slamming them repeatedly against desks and walls.