The problem with ‘leader’ and ‘manager’ labels for small business owners
If you scroll through LinkedIn, it won’t be long before you read a post about how everyone should be a leader and not a manager. Leaders are said to roll up their sleeves, inspire, and get in the thick of it while managers are painted as dictators who dish out orders and […]
Your Lizard Brain, Going to The Pub and ‘Just One Hug’: The Psychology of Group Behaviour
April 12th. The day the ‘world started getting back to normal’. The day you’d been waiting for. To get a haircut, go to IKEA, go to the gym, and the pub. The start of the road to recovery. Socially, mentally, physically, and economically. This quick article looks at the […]
Organisational Development and Liverpool FC: Is Klopp’s Leadership to Blame for This Season?
Your business’s Organisational Development (OD) is a system. Winning and maintaining success take the effort of your whole organisation. Despite this, when things aren’t going to plan, so many business owners think there’s a magic wand that’ll solve all their problems. They know there’s more than one problem, yet still expect there to […]
Case Study: How Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Helped Tennick Accountants Achieve A Record Month
It’s September 2019. Graeme Tennick, CEO of Tennick Accountants based in Newcastle upon Tyne, calls me after hearing about how a Manchester-based accountancy firm used a personality assessment tool so effectively they’d noticed measurable results. Keen to see if I could help with something similar, we put a plan in motion that would see his […]
Five Lessons 2020 Taught Us That’ll Keep Us Sane In 2021
Do you practice what you preach? It’s something I struggle with. I’m quick to tell my clients how important a proper break is, but I’m terrible at actually taking one. So before 2021’s challenges of running a business, being a mother, and (more recently) homeschooling my children take over, I thought I’d take my own […]
