The trick for employees is to find the right balance between challenges and skills – and this is hugely important in teams. Are you challenging your teams to stretch themselves or is their work too boring? This becomes part of the process of managing people's growth. Sometimes when corporates go through a bad patch, I […]
There were many challenges in 2021 - the obvious two being Covid-19 uncertainty and Brexit. Even though these have, and continue to be challenging, at Sherpa we were able to re-evaluate the kind of business we want to be. It was important to take note of the many exciting new initiatives coming into play that […]
Darren Watkins, managing director for VIRTUS Data Centres, explains how business leaders can effectively optimise office space. COVID-19 might be the most used word over the last 24 months, but that’s no surprise given how it has turned our personal lives and the working world upside down. It continues to impact all of us, but […]
Breakthrough Energy Catalyst (BEC) will invest in four key areas: green hydrogen, direct air recovery, aviation fuels, and energy storage technology. Speaking to the Financial Times, managing director of BEC Jonah Goldman said that by leveraging innovative financial structures and partnership agreements, the fund will mobilise $15 billion. The fund is part of the Breakthrough […]
Consequently, any business-related predictions for the coming year can’t fail to take the pandemic into account. Omicron and any further variants that follow demonstrate how fluid the pandemic is. Of course, while the pandemic is a global issue, UK businesses will also continue to face the ongoing disruptions we’ve come to expect as each new […]
Luxury automaker Aston Martin has reported an 82% surge in sales to dealers in 2021. The news comes despite the company predicting lower-than-expected annual adjusted core earnings on fewer-than-planned shipments of its Valkyrie sports car in the fourth quarter of the year. On Friday, Aston Martin said it expects annual adjusted core earnings to come […]
As the New Year begins in the CEO chair, you would normally be feeling the need to attack this year with a fresh impetus – a renewed energy for achievement from your team and excellence in how you serve your customers. Great if you are, but it is also totally okay if you are not. […]
Business growth consultant Daniel Groves explores where startups should spend their marketing budget. When considering your finances and scaling a business, there are so many areas that are fighting for your budget. It can be difficult to know where to spend your money, and where you can save it. I've spoken about how to scale […]
The virtual team bandwagon has been well and truly gathering speed prior to COVID-19. Even before the pandemic sent us all back home to work, 85% of us have at some time worked in a virtual team and almost 20% of us spent our working day interacting with other virtual teams. Building trust is harder […]
At first glance, it seems absurd to mention genius scientists like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in the same breath as Madonna or Kim Kardashian because their personalities could not be more different. What could possibly connect a giant of the intellectual stage such as the physicist Steven Hawking with the boxing legend Muhammad Ali, […]
Digitalisation as far as the eye can reach. Everything has to be smart. This also applies to the industry sector. In addition to speed, flexibility is becoming more and more important. Increasingly intelligent components, seamless communication and networking are just a few of the requirements. “That alone won’t cut it,” says Horst Gusterhuber, CEO of […]
As we learn to improve, we encourage compassion with leaders and their teams as they discover new ways of relating to each other. SPCC has developed a coaching program for teams because the new normal will require even greater collaboration to successfully navigate the new ways of doing and being in business. The “Re-Writing the […]
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