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3 Essential Skills for Leadership Development of the Future
In a recent webinar we participated in, it was suggested that in the next ten years, 50% of jobs will require new skills. This is music to a business trainer’s ears, but exactly what kinds of[...]
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Motivating Remote Workers, Re-engaging un-Furloughed Employees & Inspiring your Team
An issue we have been discussing recently with the delegates on our leadership development programmes is how they can help their team members to feel motivated, inspired and (re-) engaged,[...]
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Time to Revisit your Operations Strategy?
As we move towards Autumn, the organisation I lead is coming to terms with the fact that the world will not return to “normal” any time soon. We are in the process of reviewing our activities,[...]
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Cost Reduction Practices Most Leaders Miss
We are delighted to welcome back Professor John Oliver OBE as this week's guest writer, where he examines some key areas of opportunities for cost reduction in businesses and where to begin[...]
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Succession in a Family Business
My brother, Geof, and I founded Printwaste almost 40 years ago. We are based in Cheltenham where we have two factories employing almost 80 people engaged in the green economy of recycling and[...]
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Leadership for Re-opening
From the 1st August, the government has changed its guidance about asking people to work from home where they can and has given employers more discretion to make decisions about how their staff[...]
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The Post-Covid CMO in the Digital Age
The need for marketing planning is greater now than it has ever been. By Professor Malcolm McDonald Background Organisations like Johnson and Johnson, P and G, Shell and the like create[...]
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Courage, Connection and Curiosity
I’m passionate about encouraging leadership in the individuals I work with. Organisations need more leadership, (or genuine engagement, if you prefer it), at all levels. I think that it is[...]
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Leadership in crisis - Engaging teams under Lockdown: The Bigger Picture
I enjoyed reading Jo’s thoughtful piece on the Blog discussing mental health (It's OK to Not Feel OK). It did occur to me that the participants in the various QuoLux™ programmes are in a very[...]
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Leadership in Crisis - Behaviours
One of the very few bright spots of the pandemic has been the emergence of a much-increased sense of community and fellowship. From the Thursday clapping for the NHS and other front-line[...]
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Leading Through Long-term Change
Now more than ever, with the innumerous changes happening around us, effective leadership is needed.Working from home and online has become the norm; addressing direction changes in markets and[...]
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The Importance of Optimism
Forecasts of economic doom following the recent announcement that UK GDP shrank by a record 20% in April; political tensions and polarised perspectives, which seem to dominate the national news[...]