Good news! Leadership and Management government grants are back – with awards of £1000 available for qualifying organisations. The grants are intended to develop people management skills. They are available for companies who employ between 2 and 250 staff and show growth potential. Typical applications of the grants include leadership development, executive coaching and interventions …
Most workplaces are collaborative environments where problems need to be resolved and decisions need to be made. People and teams need to interact and collaborate in as efficient and effective a manner as possible to realise the goals of the organisation. This requires a combination of hard skills (mostly technical) and soft skills (such as …
Thunderbirds are go! The world seems to have stepped back from the brink, for now, with an international rescue package designed to unlock the world’s financial markets. The cataclysmic meltdown did not happen as the IMF warned and the markets seem to be responding favourably. But a week is a long time in the financial …
Rummaging through my in tray, I came across some interesting research by the Hay Group. It claimed that poor working climates are costing the UK financial services industry a staggering £8.5bn every year in lost profits. It went on to say that as much as a third of an organisation’s business performance is dependent on …
Peter Drucker famously said that management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. It can be tough fathoming out what the right things are, particularly in difficult times such as these. For example, is it about hitting key performance indicators at the exclusion of everything else? Maybe it’s playing safe and doing …