Leaders: Attract and retain your organisation’s best talent!

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” –Richard Branson, Virgin America   Attract and retain your organisation’s best talent One of the most critical issues facing organisations today is retaining…

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5 strategies to achieve work-life balance

  “Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.” –Hillary Clinton Do you consider yourself a workaholic? Perhaps you wear your 18 hour days, seven days a week and middle of the night emails as a badge of honour….

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6 ways to boost your team’s morale

 “The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower                           How…

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Diversity and Inclusion: the what, how and why leaders should embrace it

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” — Malcolm Forbes  You’ve heard it before: two heads are better than one. But what if both heads come from the same place, have the same background and think similarly? When leaders face…

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Becoming the office hero

    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens When there’s a fire to put out, there is usually someone there, holding the fire extinguisher. It is the same person every time: the…

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Delegating: key benefits and how to do it effectively

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it” –Theodore Roosevelt You’ve got 15 hours of work…

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Fostering creativity and innovation (and not just talking about it)

Fostering creativity and innovation is something that all leaders talk about.  It’s a strategic component in growth and sustaining prominence and dynamism within a competitive market. It’s also a great way of bringing out the best in people and adapting…

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Developing talent

Developing Talent

Developing talent is key to an organisation’s survival. Not only does it make optimum use of the broad range of talent that’s available to you but it’s also a great back-up for the unexpected. How many times have you had…

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Unconscious Biases: Recognising Yours and Working on Them

Doing something unconsciously means doing something automatically or without thinking. And whilst it can be helpful sometimes, ie we don’t have to think about breathing – we just breathe – it is something that we need to be aware of….

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Varity is the spice of life

Understanding & Engaging Others: use diversity to your advantage

Our multi-cultural world is bursting with a plethora of personalities and different generations.  We’re surrounded by people with dissimilar perspectives to ours and who approach things in completely different ways.   So, it’s little wonder that challenges emerge when a…

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