Proactive risk management needs to start at the top of the organisation. Most business owners and leaders understand that leading a business involves a degree of risk. The key is to ensure that, as your business matures, you build the capability to identify, assess and manage risks in a prudent […]
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Is fear limiting your team’s performance?
Peaceful conversations avoidant of emotion or robustness means that we avoid courageous conversations. It can lead to a lack of energy in a team or a surface level of conversation that fails to get to the conversations that matter. It can also point to people hiding their true feelings only […]
Why it’s still important to celebrate your office Christmas party this year
“While it may be too early to know how coronavirus restrictions may change over the next couple of months, it’s still important to celebrate an end of year party for your team. Businesses have already modified how they operate day to day, so there’s no reason why the office Christmas […]
Why top-down and bottom-up innovation are both critical to thriving post COVID
Unless very clear guidelines are communicated to employees about the types of ideas the business is looking for, a bottom-up approach can end up doing more harm than good. Many of the ideas submitted are unviable, unfeasible or misaligned to the business strategy, and therefore don’t ever see the light […]
Rewiring your management style
Being a human manager is something that we should all embrace. It’s not about holding hands and singing kumbuyah and being “soft and fluffy” however rather genuine, caring, firm but fair and open to the possibility that great results will occur when we do the simple things well, writes Mark […]
