Tips To Help Set Clear Objectives
Setting objectives for your team is an important part of success, employee happiness and structure. You need to all know you’re on the same page and people feeling focussed, supported and clear on what they need to do. But, as a leader, are you clear on how to structure and set these? Here [...]
How Can We Be Motivated By Our Objectives?
How do the words ‘continuous professional development’ make you feel? A little flat and lacklustre?! Trust, me I get it. At times, it can be a little less than inspiring but it’s imperative to professional success and happiness. Tapping into your intrinsic motivation and helping your teams to do the same, you’ll create [...]
What’s Working With A Business Coach Like?
In this blog I wanted to hear from one of my clients all about what working with me and using a business coach is actually like. Karen Campbell runs two businesses, Karen Campbell Marketing and Hotsy Totsy, a London members’ club for women. We have been working together specifically on Hotsy Totsy’s launch [...]
How Much Privilege Is There In Leadership?
Be honest, when you think of a leader in a business context – who do you think of? A white-haired, white man in a suit? If you did, then you’re not alone as sadly this has been, and to some-extent still is, very much the norm. But in reality, how much privilege is [...]
Is Being Lost A Bad Thing?
I bet at one time or another, you’ve felt pretty lost in your professional life. You were, or are, perhaps in a job or a sector that is unfulfilling. Perhaps you’re not really following the right path or perhaps you’re just unsure what you want to do at all. So many people ask [...]
How Do I Know If I’ve Been Ghosted?
The word ‘ghosting’ is a relatively new one in the working world, but unfortunately, what it describes isn’t. Ghosting means to be ignored, blanked and not responded to and is often used in the context of romantic relationships. But there are also many ‘ghosters’ in the business world. You might feel a bit [...]
Do I Need A Business Coach?
There is often a preconception that business coaches are only for large businesses and small businesses might find this inaccessible. In my experience, this is wrong as I’ve seen incredible things happen when working with independent businesses. Alternatively, you might have tripped over at least 50% of networking attendees being business coaches and [...]
How Can I Stop My Employees Resigning?
There are headlines being banded around talking about ‘the great resignation’. A term coined by US academic Anthony Klotz used to describe the many people leaving their roles and careers in the wake of the pandemic. But how can you stop your employees resigning, is it a mass exodus? Be prepared, you might [...]
Is A Hybrid Way Of Working The Best Way?
There have been many articles lately about the impact working from home has on individuals. Are people craving and needing in-person interaction in their working lives? The mission is on for leaders of businesses large and small to build the best working environment for them, their team and their business objectives. But is [...]
How To Steer An Engaging And Motivating Ship As A Leader
We are well underway into the shift to moving back into the office, staying remote permanently or for most, a mixture somewhere in between. For leaders and managers, there is an onus to keep their teams motivated and engaged during this shift. There are many moving parts in teams at the moment – [...]
Psychopaths: They Walk Among Us
In June this year, American multinational business magazine Fortune ran a report citing its research that found that 12% of corporate leaders in the US are psychopaths. Now, a lot of us immediately jump to the Hannibal Lector or Ted Bundy school of psychopaths, but psychopathic behaviour is hugely complex. Common traits include having [...]
Is It Possible To Change Behaviours In Teams?
Business, like life, is built on relationships and putting the right people together to achieve the end goal. This ‘putting together’ is normally left to the leader of a team to use their insight and experience to put the people with the best personalities, experience and skillset for the matter at hand. However, [...]
Should leaders show vulnerability?
The fabulous Brené Brown describes vulnerability as "uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure". It is that unstable feeling we get when we step out of our comfort zone or do something that forces us to loosen control. I would say it’s most definitely a strength and not a weakness, but should leaders show vulnerability? Stepping out [...]
Is being introverted or extroverted better?
What is so amazing about us humans is we are like fingerprints, grains of sand or snowflakes. Everybody is completely different. There is no two of a kind but occasionally, the business world doesn’t realise this. I enjoy working with a number of teams which are brimming with different types of people – [...]