Plenty of SME owners and senior leaders come back from a leadership course full of ideas only to find six weeks later that nothing has changed. Drawing on fifteen years of working with founders and senior teams, we look at why that happens and what to check before you choose a programme.…
Wellbeing is regularly in the news, but what can leaders of small-medium businesses actually do about it? Eight key factors to work with, why pressure is so badly misunderstood and what poor wellbeing looks like inside a business. Plus the argument that most wellbeing initiatives fail for reasons that have nothing to do with wellbeing itself and everything to do with leading change.…
Two businesses can turn over the same money in the same year and be worth entirely different amounts, and the reason usually has very little to do with the year in question. Business value is a measure of what a company will be able to produce in the years ahead, which means it is built out of three things: customers who keep buying and will accept a fair price; capability that sits in the organisation and not in a…
Premiere Kitchens, a Gloucester based kitchen manufacturer, has invested £5 million in new manufacturing equipment after leadership development with QuoLux™ helped double the company's profitability in two years. Last week it unveiled a £5m investment in its Gloucester factory that…
There's a question every leader should ask their team, but most won't: "Do you feel safe disagreeing with me?" Not "Can you disagree?" (most people technically can). But do they feel safe doing it? Will they speak up when they think you're wrong, or will they stay quiet and let you walk into a bad decision?…
The right leadership development programme for a Small-Medium Business (SMB) matches three things at once: the scale of your decisions, the way your people learn best and the business outcomes you can already name. …
Most leaders think they are good listeners. In practice, very few are. And that is worth understanding, because it shapes everything that follows. We are taught to read, write and…
We asked our own CEO, Dr Stewart Barnes, to write a long-read piece on Strategic Planning for Small-Medium Businesses (SMBs), sharing the steps and framework needed for…