English cricket - what a shambles. To see the England captain and coach resign on the eve of the team’s departure for a tour of the West Indies is appalling. There were many people who were sceptical about the appointment of Kevin Pietersen as England’s cricket captain. He is a strong-willed, somewhat maverick, individual who was not the most obvious candidate for working with the ECB bureaucracy or planning a way forward for the side. Read the rest of this entry »
In the current economic climate businesses have to work harder and smarter to not only win new customers but then retain and develop them into high level business. Customers are not willing to part with their money on a whim and are demanding that the products or services they choose to purchase are exceeding their expectations. With tightening margins comes a desire to tighten the purse strings, but could minimising all of your outgoings be a false economy?
Being a Coach as well as a Manager……
One of the crucial management challenges businesses must address is effective people development. Employees are undoubtedly an organisation’s greatest resource yet their potential is rarely capitalised on.
There are a variety of Leadership Styles and ’It’s not my style’ is a commonly used phrase that can be heard in many walks of life. However, if you are a ‘Leader’, your style will impact on the workplace environment and the people working both with you and for you. The impact can be both positive and negative, which naturally affects team and individual performance.