Weekly Focus 5th March 2019

WEEKLY FOCUS Is Learning & Development an employee perk? A hot topic! Listen here First of all let’s look at the definitions! The CIPD say… “A learning and development strategy outlines how an organisation develops its workforce’s capabilities, skills and...

Weekly Focus 26th February 2019

Staff Motivation Getting Under the Skin To engage or disengage…That is the question! To delegate or empower…To burden or unshackle? Listen here Sport has always played a big part in my life. The challenges to test yourself on a personal level both mentally and...

Weekly Focus 19th February

Weekly Focus Managing Conflict in the workplace What needs to happen? Listen here In any organisation or team, it is critical that everyone works as one, sharing a common goal and with values and vision aligned…One team with a collective mindset. Sadly this is not...

Weekly Focus 12th February

The business consequences of excessive work What must happen? Listen here. As organisations strive for increased levels of profit and with greater levels of competition, margins are scrutinised more than ever. Making sure that there is limited waste and that the...

Weekly Focus 5th February

WEEKLY FOCUS A Healthy working environment Consider the benefits. Listen here. The dictionary definition of healthy is “in a good physical or mental condition; in good health”. Examining the definition allows for a variety of meanings and with each one providing...

Weekly Focus 29th January 2019

WEEKLY FOCUS Help is Everywhere! Just look around you. Click here to listen While we very much endorse the spirit of teams and much of our work is centred around high performing teams, there are times as individuals that we can feel on our own. This can happen for a...

Weekly Focus- Reaching Peak Performance

WEEKLY FOCUS Reaching Peak Performance And do we ever get there? Click here to listen Much is written about Peak Performance…But what is it…And do we ever get there? The definition provided by The Psychology Dictionary is: “A performance at the best level of a...

Weekly Focus 15th January 2019

WEEKLY FOCUS Teams are teams! Both in the work place and elsewhere. Much is written about Teamwork and we regularly read about the traits of “Great Teams”. With recent changes in Managers in the sporting world, it made me realise that teams are teams no matter what...

Weekly Focus 8th January 2019

 New Year Blues And why it need not be! Listen here. It’s that time of the year…A New Year and only in its absolute infancy. The joys and excitement of both Christmas & New Year long gone yet so recent. New Year resolutions often falsely set…Expectations...

Weekly Focus 18th December

WEEKLY FOCUS Manager or Leader Which are you? Listen here Manager or Leader or one and the same? Do Managers lead, or do Leaders manage? If we look at the simple Dictionary definition we see… Manager: “A person responsible for controlling or administering an...