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Tips from Experience: Protecting Your Less-Appreciated Technical Stars

April 17, 2019/in Training and Development /by Paul Laughlin

Having given plenty of airtime to the benefit of books & podcasts, I’d like to turn to tips from experience. These are lessons learnt by leaders from practical on-the-job expe… Read more

Leadership – Maintaining Integrity

April 2, 2019/in Training and Development /by Calum Byers

A key element of how we see leaders and how we select leadership candidates is their integrity. But what does this mean? Integrity can be defined in two ways: as being honest and havi… Read more

How to Successfully Coach an Individual

March 27, 2019/in Training and Development /by Calum Byers

Coaching is a simple concept but infinitely varied in how it can be applied. It combines simple exercises with profound insights into how an individual sees themselves in the worl… Read more

Leadership – The Three Cs

March 22, 2019/in Training and Development /by Calum Byers

The British Army has been providing courses on leadership development at Sandhurst since 1812 when it was recognised that leading men into battle required more than just an arist… Read more

Leadership – Developing Self-Awareness

March 19, 2019/in Training and Development /by Alan Thompson

Leadership can be simply defined as “motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.” What this means in practice and what it takes to be a “good” leader has been… Read more

Leadership – Asking the Right Questions

February 22, 2019/in Training and Development /by Calum Byers

“Management is about answers. Leadership is about questions.” There have been many acres of newsprint dedicated to defining the difference between management and leadership a… Read more

5 ways to increase support team productivity

December 13, 2017/in Training and Development /by customerattuned

Welcome to our new guest blogger Jason Grills, who specialises in customer service enhancement and productivity. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never abl… Read more

Developing People to Deliver Change

April 21, 2017/in Training and Development /by Alan Thompson

The Hornby Hobbies Story so far … We have been on an incredible journey with the Sales teams from Hornby Hobbies over the last six months. The start point saw a team with pressure on al… Read more

LOOKING INTO 2017 – Highly Capable Staff

January 18, 2017/in Training and Development /by Alan Thompson

As we look forward into 2017 we ask our Directors and selection of associates to comment on the year ahead. In 2017 as in previous years, the availability of highly capable staff is k… Read more

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