I constantly see business leaders fire fighting and way too busy to dedicate time to important matters - like learning and development, business strategic planning, budgeting, reviewing their business model or succession planning. Finding the time is so hard for many business leaders. With looming deadlines, daily tasks and urgent meetings all the rest can …
Continue reading New Year Resolution – Adopt a Leader’s Mindset
I have written a number of Blog articles recently on the theme of Leadership. However this time round I wanted to write about the common pitfalls I see various business owners and leaders fall into, which prohibits them to lead effectively or stops them from leading at all. This is quite a longish article which …
Though it is one of the most common and most talked about mistake, I keep seeing it done and repeated in various businesses. The mistake of promoting people into managerial positions based on their technical skills and knowledge, rather than ability to lead, manage and communicate. Then the inevitable happens. The inevitable is that such …
I meet many business owners who complain about the work ethic of their employees. Work ethics is a set of moral principles or values that an employee abides by and uses in their job performance. Work ethic is the ability of an employee to have an attitude to perform his/her job duties with high moral …
Many times I see business leaders, literally suffering as they find it so hard to persuade anyone else to follow their vision. It seems many business leaders fail to grasp how they can influence people around them. Which is why I keep repeating that communication is no longer considered a "soft skill" for business leaders, …
Continue reading Using Leadership to Communicate Effectively
In my role as a family business consultant, I many times coach and train CEOs, top managers and family business owners on leadership. Such training is mainly intended to give an opportunity to such persons to look within themselves and understand that what’s going on inside themselves and how that is influencing their actions. I …
Once someone taught me that "you are as good as your last show". He meant that you are to remain humble and not let any past success get to your head. He meant that any decision needs to be approached with an open mind and based on its own merits after carefully considering the present …
The EU Commission has today just issued it's updated economic forecast. Overall the EU economic forecast is that we should be bottoming out in 2023, with an outlook to return to overall economic growth across the EU in 2024. On a general perspective accross the EU, notwithstanding a projected contraction of GDP in the fourth …
In my last Blog Article I spoke on the importance of having line managers well trained and coached in Leadership & Emotional Intelligence, Communication and Teamwork. We call this training as the foundational training. It is truly the baseline of what we used to call "soft skills". I prefer calling them "core skills". No person …
Everywhere I go, I get flooded by business owners with the huge problems they have with their human resource. Many of these problems are related to attitudes, reliability and performance. Many business owners feel at a loss at how to improve the attitudes and boost the performance of their team members, especially when they find …
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