The bottom line
Most people are of course familiar with the concept of the bottom line. It's about financial viability. Decisions need to consider the impact on the bottom line; ie - is this action/product/service/investment etc going to add to the bottom line or subtract from it? This is naturally of massive importance to any organisation. It's not viable to do things that are not going to pay back in some way. So far, we're probably all in...
Calling all current and future leaders!
There are many leaders in this world. Some are natural leaders without having a leadership position - people just seem to listen to them and follow them anyway. Some are leaders through a manager position, and may be natural leaders as well. Regardless of what kind of leader you may be or want to be, you can be sure of one thing: Leadership, like everything else, is changing. And it's changing fast. And if you want to be successful as...
The book is released today!
After a lot of writing, re-writing, editing, planning and working, "The Team Formula" is finally officially released today! This is a business book told in a story format for leaders, a Leadership Tale. It takes place in the world of international business where as a result of an acquisition, two companies merge creating a team, struggling with conflicts and dishonesty as well as showing glimpses of loyalty and hope. Stephen, the...
Knowing and liking your colleagues
We don't always choose our colleagues. We choose a job and the recruiter chooses us. Our colleagues are so important though. They are important to our success, as individuals, as a team and as an organization. Some colleagues we may like from the start, we just easily hit it off. And then there are those colleagues that we don't get on with as well, we may not even like each other all that much. But most of that is down to not...
Challenges that all teams face
In all of the teams that we work with across the globe, we find we are constantly working with very similar themes in terms of the strengths and challenges in teams. During the writing of our book " The Team Formula" we have taken the research from our combined 40 plus years of experience and written about the top themes that we see consistently . We decided to write this book as a story. We all know how people love...
It’s all about trust
Wouldn't it be wonderful to work in a team, where you feel completely at ease? Where you come in to work in the morning and you know that it will be a good day simply because of the people you have around you? When you know that you will be treated with respect and that you will work together, giving and taking, and being successful and having fun? Well, yes! There's nothing worse for a team than when people don't trust each other,...
