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Sometimes the best insights come from taking a step back and looking at familiar challenges through a different lens. Our blog explores the practical side of leadership, strategy, and personal development – sharing real experiences, honest reflections, and actionable ideas that actually work in the messy reality of business life.
From navigating difficult conversations to building strategies that stick, these posts offer straightforward guidance that comes from getting things right, getting things wrong, and learning from both.
Coaching: The Manager’s Secret Weapon for Building Self-Reliant Teams
Picture this. You've allocated a task to a team member and it comes back only half done. Instead of sending it back, you finish it off yourself "because it will be quicker." Or maybe you've held onto a piece of work instead of delegating it "because they won't do it...
Delegation: The Core Skill Every Manager Needs to Master
Many new managers discover quickly that promotion brings both opportunity and overwhelm. What once looked straightforward suddenly feels like constant pressure — expectations, decisions, and responsibilities all seem to multiply overnight. One of the biggest...
The Green Cross Code for Business Strategy
Image by Thorbjörn Ruppel from Pixabay Who remembers learning the Green Cross Code? Stop, look right, look left, look right again, and if it's clear – cross. For those of us who grew up with it, the rhythm is still there, somewhere in our muscle memory. Simple,...
Authentic Leadership: Why Being Yourself Isn’t Enough (But Being Someone Else Is Worse)
There's a new book out called Don't Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated (and What to Do Instead). I read a review of it in the Harvard Business Review. The premise? That authentic leadership isn't just overrated—it's potentially damaging to leaders themselves....
Plan is a Verb as well as a Noun
In the world of small business, the word "plan" often conjures images of static documents gathering dust on a shelf. But what if we reframe the concept of planning from a noun—a finished product—to a verb—an active, ongoing process? This shift in perspective can be...
Setting Boundaries: Having a life as well as a business!
I have to confess, as a new business owner I was really terrible at setting boundaries. Truth be told, I was pretty poor at it before too but it got much worse when I started working for myself. I said Yes to pretty much everything, however unreasonable. Jump on a...
Head or Heart? The Business Case for Compassionate Leadership
In boardrooms across the globe, a quiet revolution is taking place. Leaders are discovering that compassion isn't the soft option—it's the strategic advantage that drives exceptional performance. Far from being about lowering standards or avoiding difficult...
From Small to Scaling: Growing Pains & Survival Strategies
Working in a small business that's scaling towards exponential growth can be exhilarating and challenging in equal measure. The emotional rollercoaster that accompanies this phase often encompasses excitement, ambition, and innovation on one hand, and stress,...
Leaders are always in the spotlight
There are two incidents in my leadership career that I vividly remember. Moments of realisation The first was on my first day as a senior manager – not just someone who led a team, but someone who lead a service of teams. I was doing the usual first day induction and...
Questions, not Answers
It’s not so much about having the answers, it’s about knowing which questions to ask! One of the myths too many leaders believe is that they need to know all the answers. They tie themselves in knots – and create knots in their stomachs – trying to work it out on...
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