Values essential for effective business

Values essential for effective business

Values are concepts that inform beliefs. They inform what is good and right, they motivate behaviour. They inform the culture of a business: what it focuses on, produces and rewards. Values, culture and business effectiveness are closely linked. Misalignment carries...
Top tips for the uncomfortable networker!

Top tips for the uncomfortable networker!

It is said that over 70% of jobs and business comes from networking. These great top tips to unleash the uncomfortable networker come from an excellent Coaching Academy CPD Event yesterday with Rasheed Ogunlaru. I consider myself outgoing. Even so, the thought of...
Seeing the wood for the trees

Seeing the wood for the trees

Did you know this phrase has been around for hundreds of years? I love using it. Not just because I love trees (confession – I’m a bit of a tree hugger!) but because it conveys viewing the details of something – the trees – while also noticing what is...
A role for doubt?

A role for doubt?

They say leadership is about decision making, so is there a role for doubt? Doubt. It’s an interesting experience – and a common one. We all have doubts. We think of them as negative, as things that makes us hesitate or even stop in our tracks. We may have convictions...