You are probably a very busy person. However, you understand that to achieve your highest performance you need to ensure that all aspects of your work are aligned. You understand that you … Read more...
Advising
Why would you want to hire a consultant? Remember the old management story of the ‘boiled frog’ syndrome? The story goes that if you slowly warm up a saucepan of water with a live frog in it, the … Read more...
Speaking
Do you require someone to give a talk, moderate a panel or give a key note speech? You might want to get fresh insights into a new area such as: Doing business in the Middle East Creating a … Read more...
Remote working? Tips from the last century
I have worked remotely most of my working life, starting in late 1980’s, yes, even back in the last century there was such a thing as ‘virtual teams’ (although I am sure we did not refer to ourselves as such). When I started working from home, I was an employee working for a consultancy with […]
Multiple Stakeholders – Herding Cats?
We often hear exasperated managers talk about the activity of managing team members as ‘herding cats’, and we smile and nod, sympathetic with the cat herder trying to align the interests and the attention of their team, are there any ways of making this task easier? All of us who lead or manage projects will […]
Mentoring To Be or Not To Be
Over the next few posts I will be looking at the whole area of mentoring – and by way of introduction: As I mention in this short video, my absence from this site has been mostly to do with busyness, busy initially immersing my self in further training and development (that’s the structural dynamics I […]