At first glance, coaching and mentoring may seem to be the same thing and are often transposed in our thinking as they are both techniques requiring similar skills to drive behavioural change, yet the process and the outcomes are quite…
Slogans Attract, Stories Engage, Sales pay Bills.
Tagged with: Bounceback, Covid19, payingthebills
Posted in Business Growth, Marketing, SALES, Strategic Planning
Posted in Business Growth, Marketing, SALES, Strategic Planning
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly redundancies
Firms planning 20 or more redundancies at a single “establishment” must by law notify the government via a form called HR1, of how many people they are potentially making redundant. On September 8th, the BBC released HR1 figures, secured via…
Tagged with: covid 19 redundancies, Redundancy
Posted in communication, Company Culture, Decision Making, leadership, Values
Posted in communication, Company Culture, Decision Making, leadership, Values
Summer refresh your business relevance
Whether you choose a staycation or an overseas escape, it’s never been as important as it is, at this moment in time to take a break from work, the home office, furlough, the job search and the general negative impact…
Tagged with: #constantpurpose, #refresh, #relevance, Business Planning, Covid19, Sales Growth, STRATEGY
Posted in Brand Management, leadership, Planning, Proposition, Purpose, Strategic Planning, Values
Posted in Brand Management, leadership, Planning, Proposition, Purpose, Strategic Planning, Values
Key questions every Boardroom needs to answer ASAP
Even high performing, strategically sound businesses, that have been run extremely well over the pre-covid years, are having to reassess their futures. Some will become stronger, some will recover, and some will cease, but there is one thing for certain,…
Tagged with: Boardrooms, Business Planning, coronavirus, Covid19, leadership, Senior Managers, Skills for business growth, STRATEGY
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
7 Transferable Deep Dive Findings
7 years ago this June I registered the company name The Value Innovator, a “me-only-business” set up to support SME’s with easy access to my leading company experience and best practice expertise on strategic and leadership challenge. Never did I…
Tagged with: #constantpurpose, #experience, #perceptionisfact, #relevance, #startwithwhy, Values
Posted in Appraisals, Company Culture, leadership, Strategic Planning, Values
Posted in Appraisals, Company Culture, leadership, Strategic Planning, Values
Mind your language when coming out!
As we are officially coming out of lockdown (too slowly for some / too quickly for others) the tendency amongst some business leaders will be, to get back to work and get back fast; with the immediate responsibility falling on…
Tagged with: communication, coronavirus, Covid 19, Lockdown, STRATEGY
Posted in Brand Values, communication, Marketing, Purpose, Values
Posted in Brand Values, communication, Marketing, Purpose, Values
Key skills required for effective communication during Covid-19
The 3 key components to good communication are the message, the method and the messenger; most organisations focus on the first two and give little thought to the third by automatically defaulting to the person at the top of the…
Tagged with: communication skills, coronavirus, crisis management, employee engagement, leadership
Posted in communication, Company Culture, Engagement, leadership, Skill Sets
Posted in communication, Company Culture, Engagement, leadership, Skill Sets
Performance or Market Improvement – where’s your GROWTH coming from?
The markets are under attack – “Covid-19 presents the greatest danger to the world economy since the financial crisis of 2008” (OEGD). “The FTSE 100 fell more than 8% in early trading as fears of a global recession grew, caused…
Tagged with: coronavirus, john lewis, People performance, Process productivity, Product profitability
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, leadership
Posted in Business Growth, Company Culture, leadership
A GOAL without a plan is just a WISH
After 30 years in what is generically referred to as “corporate life” where we even planned the plan, the shock of working with smaller businesses that do not produce a plan, let alone written goals was (for me) an anathema…
Tagged with: Budgets, Business Planning, Goal Planning, Growth, Skills for business growth
Posted in Annual Plan, Business Growth, Planning, Strategic Planning
Posted in Annual Plan, Business Growth, Planning, Strategic Planning
