63% of businesses are introducing hybrid working over the next 6-12 months (CIPD).   Staff want and expect it from their employers, and most businesses have been quick to agree.   But what is hybrid working? How do you know if you should do it? And how do you get it right?   That’s what we’ll look at now.   Let’s get

As business owners, we work bloody hard. But for what? If you're not taking time off to enjoy the proceeds of your hard work, what’s the point? This article looks at the importance of taking a break and how to fully switch off when you do. So that instead of working through your 'holiday', you come back refreshed

    There have been problems with mixed messages from our leaders during the whole pandemic.   From U-turns to blatant rule breaks, their actions haven’t matched their words.   This quick article looks at some of these mixed messages and highlights how you, a business owner, can avoid their mistakes when managing your own team.   Let’s get started.   ‘Freedom day’ If Freedom Day

    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 whip their staff.   So what’s

    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 psychology of group behaviour, what that means for your team

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 be one ‘fix’.   This isn’t

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 team

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 advice for