Image via Pexels Modern businesses don’t just suffer from talent shortages—they often suffer from misused talent. The problem isn’t always that you don’t have the right people; it’s that your best potential is quietly idling in the wrong roles. For company leaders and managers, the real challenge is learning to spot the quiet signals, design […]
Mastering the Art of Attracting and Nurturing Skilled Talent: Best Practices for Recruitment Marketing
Image via Pexels In today’s competitive business landscape, attracting and retaining skilled individuals is paramount for organizational success. Recruitment marketing plays a pivotal role in this endeavour. This article from Katie Conroy of Advice Mine explores the best practices that businesses should embrace to excel in their recruitment marketing efforts. Let’s see Katie’s take on […]
How to be a really bad manager
And then learn how to do it properly….. This blog is based on a post I wrote for the 2023 Q4 Edition of the institute of water Magazine I loved being a scientist from the time I first weighed a stone in and out of water in primary school. Picking maths, chemistry, and physics at […]
6 Ways to Eliminate Business Debt
Image via Pexels You can barely keep up with your monthly expenses, and your business debt has you on the verge of bankruptcy. However, there are ways to help reduce your debts and regain control of your business finances. As an entrepreneur, you know maintaining financial health is crucial as you try to build your […]
Lessons From The Racetrack – Keeping Up vs Getting Ahead
In previous posts I spoke about how my hobby of racing powerful superbikes around various UK racetracks helped me grow and develop professionally. In this post I’m revisiting the key theme of how the principles of racing successfully can be applied to your professional development. From the beginning When racing , we the riders would […]
From Dropout to Director and Beyond
This post is based on an article I wrote for the 2022 Q3 edition of the Institute of Water magazine My story I was inspired to write this article by the quote, attributed by some to Jane Austen: “It’s never too late to be what you could have been”. This might seem strange given that […]
Building the great future that you want
It’s the gift that keeps giving Organisations need high-performing employees and high performing employees want satisfying jobs. In this piece I will discuss how what I learned from racing superbikes can help both get what they want. My early career with Anglian Water was not great, my youthful self-confidence running into organisational inertia and coming […]
TEE-Shaped Learning – The gift that keeps giving
This post is based on an article I wrote for the Q3 edition of the Institute of Water magazine Background Over the last ten years I’ve done a fair bit of interim management, doing nominally full-time roles on a three-day a week contract. And, yes, I had days off, worked on other projects and had […]
Gifts that keep giving
Repositioning a curtain rail the other day, it struck me that most of the tools I was using were many years old. Everything was at least five years old, and the drill was, at over 40, the granddaddy. The tools are an example of Gifts That Keep Giving. Originally used as an advertising slogan in […]
3×3 Management : 9 key things every manager should do – Part 1
My journey to today A while ago I was asked the question: “why have you been so lucky with the teams you’ve had? They all seem to do great things while I struggle to get mine to do the basics”. I can’t remember exactly what I replied, but I’m guessing that it probably wasn’t particularly […]