The Pain of Living in Interesting Times

03 / 04 / 2019

Yesterday we heard that the government proposes to ask for another Brexit extension. That’s very bad news for the UK. It’s not just the people of the UK who want to have matters settled. Business is desperate to bring the uncertainty to an end. Recently I was talking to the owner of a business who told me that for he...

Sabotaging Success

27 / 03 / 2019

Being intelligent is undoubtedly an asset in a person’s career, but it isn’t everything. I have known a few people who were so intelligent they were almost robotic. They had no warmth and no sense of humour and their inability to tune in to the people around them sabotaged their success. Sometimes intellectually capable people don’t achieve as much as...

Make it Mozart!

20 / 03 / 2019

If you’re feeling Brexhausted (and frankly, who is not?) listen to some music. Mozart is an ideal choice, but it’s really your call. It will probably calm you down and make you feel less stressed. Aside from the delightfully zany Lisa Tarbuck on R2, our radio is almost always tuned to Classic FM where B-words mercifully mean Beethoven, Brahms, Bach,...

How to Speed Up Slow Performers

06 / 03 / 2019

One of the issues clients raise most frequently is poorly performing employee. Most managers hate managing problems in the work place and they especially hate having to talk to someone who’s nice and well-meaning, but just doesn’t deliver. But productivity is one of the most important issues that a company has to deal with. It’s what gets things done, and...

Simple Belief of Discrimination is Not Enough

27 / 02 / 2019

Over the years I have experienced several situations where an employee or applicant for a role has not had the outcome he or she wanted and has suggested that the decision had been based unlawfully on a protected characteristic. The clients in question had acted lawfully and by following a fair, justifiable and documented process were able to prove it....