Category: Recruitment
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Push your ego aside to learn from your team
As success builds in your company, what started as well placed confidence in your own idea and abilities can easily be overwhelmed by your ego – you can easily start to think that you have all the right answers. By acknowledging that this attitude is detrimental to your working relationships, and that your employees might…
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How can you prevent an information overload?
No matter how far up the leadership ladder you are, a major concern is how to keep track of the information given to you. Ever since the birth of email, and more recently, social media, employers have been overloaded with information (be it relevant or irrelevant), which swiftly becomes unmanageable. It’s easy to tell yourself…
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Are you about to sleep walk to disaster?
It’s great to be offered a new and hopefully exciting role. But the reality can be very different. It is important to sit down and consider what you will need to know during your first 101 days in the company. It is vital that you take this time to note down your thoughts, and refer back…
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How to build a team like Alex Ferguson
Even those who don’t follow football are familiar with Sir Alex Ferguson and his achievements at Manchester United FC. At times a controversial character, he has long been respected for his strong leadership and the achievements brought about under his management. Football is now so much more than a sport; it’s a highly competitive business…
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The flaws of recruitment
In today’s modern world most recruitment is thorough but, I would argue, fatally flawed. Too much effort is put into the ‘process’ of recruitment and precious little focus is put on the support mechanism, an appropriate induction, under development of a clear vision and strategy that is focused on a high degree of certainty for…
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Is the Honeymoon period over for you?
An internal study of 20,000 executive searches performed by global executive search company Heidrick & Struggles found that 40 per cent of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or leave within 18 months of their start date. This study and the data on recruitment success rates, below, are a clear indicator…
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Vision and direction or fire fighting?
We worked closely with a group of senior leaders in a global manufacturing business. Many of the leaders ran the operation because they knew the nuts and bolts from the ground up. This left a yawning gap in the vision and direction of the business, not to mention the enrollment, engagement, education and motivation of…
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6 Leadership tips that actually work
Jim Collins the successful American author of ‘Good to Great’ has helped a good many companies over the years. Although it can sometimes be difficult to follow leadership advice as it often exaggerates what can really be achieved, here are some useful points from Jim you may find helpful. His first is a step by…
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What can coaches do for you?
In the seventeenth century, the French statesman Cardinal Richelieu relied heavily on the advice of Father François Leclerc du Tremblay, known as France’s ‘éminence grise’ for his grey monk’s habit. Like the famous cardinal, today’s business leaders have their grey eminences. To understand what they do to merit that money, the Harvard Business Review conducted…
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The best coaching you will ever get
Marshall Goldsmith, author of ‘What Got You Here Won’t Get You There’ asks some interesting questions about business coaching. He says “Imagine yourself at 95, knowing what was important and what wasn’t. Take that knowledge to heart now, both for your career and for your personal life”. You are now about to receive the best…