Mentoring or Coaching?
When you are entering into a supportive relationship with someone, it is important for both parties to be clear about what they expect of the relationship at the beginning. This ...
The Challenges of a Senior Leader
“I’m newly appointed to a senior position – what’s expected of me?” “I’ve been at the head of an organisation for a while but what can I do ...
Communication Skills: Framing
Communication can be difficult, and in a busy environment when people are stressed and have a lot on their minds it only becomes harder to get your intentions across clearly ...
Communication in Leadership
If you aspire to be an effective leader of people, then communication is probably the key to your success. You can have the greatest vision ever, but unless you can ...
Balancing the urgent and important
What is urgent in our lives and what is important? We all have urgent tasks to deal with every day. They can be things like dealing with a customer request, ...
Striking the right balance in leadership
There is a lot of talk about the differences between leadership and management. Most articles on the subject are encouraging managers to be better leaders, making the assumption that it ...
The 4 stages of a natural leadership style
For those moving into a position of leadership for the first time, you may find the situation feels very unnatural. You are taking up a mantle of responsibility that has ...
Training and the infinite return on investment – by Seth Godin
Acknowledgement: Author, Seth Godin Training and the infinite return on investment Training pays. Sometimes, it's easy to underestimate just how much it pays. Consider an employee who is going to ...
Four out of five British managers are not good enough
British Managers get serious about running a business THE low productivity of British workers has several possible culprits. Inefficient family-run companies are sometimes blamed, as are poor workforce skills. But ...
TCFM and Impellus launch UK-wide management training initiative for 480 managers
Leading Facilities Management company, TCFM, announces a major management development initiative as part of its plans for excellence and growth. TC Facilities Management (TCFM) are one of the UK’s ...
Corpus Christi College and Impellus launch management and leadership development initiative
Corpus Christi College and Impellus have announced a collaboration to provide high-class training and development to managers from businesses across the region. It’s increasingly recognised that a highly-skilled management ...
