11 routes to implementing your company vision

One of the most important features of high performing organisations is an aligned vision.  Think of any successful organisation like, for example, Innocent Drinks and their vision and purpose shines ...

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Business Relationships

Relationships are delicate like flowers. With some people a good relationship comes easily, with others you have to work at it. Sometimes it can take years to build trust, and ...

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Passing the Baton

How do you delegate? Technique 1 A shout across the office: “Hey John, can you prep that document for me?” “OK” says John. Now if you have a close working relationship ...

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Leadership and Gardening

In an ideal team the leader is acknowledged and accepted by all, and everyone knows where they fit in the structure and accepts their position, and is happy to be ...

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“To be human is to be lazy”

While being lazy is not an attitude we want to encourage in our children, we have to acknowledge that there is an element of truth in this statement. I see ...

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The Creativity Dilemma

Entrepreneurial innovation typically comes from an individual’s creativity and also often from their rebelliousness (rejecting the norm).  We usually think of the entrepreneur as having a light-bulb moment and ...

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Say what you really want to say

Alison is sitting in her office with her head in her hands.  It is becoming an all too familiar position these days, though she is relieved that her office is ...

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Our management reach is growing

Impellus, one of the UK’s largest ILM Approved Centres, are delighted to announce that our Management training courses are coming to Maidstone! Impellus provides recognised management training for your ...

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My Personal Brand

Social media encourages us all to develop ourselves as a brand.  It rewards us for developing a consistent theme, attitude, colour, imagery; or a particular style of writing or speaking. ...

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Organised chaos – a culture of creativity

A recent article in the Observer titled “Why China lacks Creativity” tells how every year when the Nobel Prize winners are announced China has an internal debate about why their ...

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New management training venue in the East of England

Our new Norwich training venue is Sprowston Manor a 16th-century manor house, set in 170 acres of beautiful parklands, 3.5 miles from central Norwich and 4 miles from the Norman-era Norwich Castle. An ...

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