I have just delivered presentations at three agencies' team conferences. What was glaringly obvious to the outsider was the gap between hard-working and well-meaning management and leaders and the hard-working and well-meaning … [Read more...]
Do You Trust Your Teams?
You’ve probably seen our teaser campaign (blatant plug: GYDA Initiative Launch). I’ll admit I’m a little on edge about the whole thing. The conversation went: Me: So we’re launching this amazing new product. Marketing Team: Yep. Me: … [Read more...]
Three Words To Change Your Entire Management Structure
As leaders, most of us are rubbish. Not totally rubbish, but we could do better. We are our own worst enemies. When we should be giving control away we seem to do the opposite and try to take it. It is as if we can’t help … [Read more...]
Solving The Talent Conundrum
95% of agency owners I meet bemoan the whole talent piece: recruiting, training and retaining their talent. This is a major problem in an industry that prides itself on the importance of the right people in the right jobs. The key points … [Read more...]
What Things Do Good Leaders Have In Common?
In this video, Robert Craven addresses some of the qualities that good leaders possess. He also identifies certain things that good leaders tend not to do! Blaming other people for problems in the company, for example… Many thanks to … [Read more...]
Freelancers
If your business is at the bottom or middle of an upwards curve, first of all BRILLIANT! Well done you! But if your balance sheets aren’t quite ready for a few new developers or SEO executives just yet, maybe freelancers could be the … [Read more...]
Grow Your Business by Design
Most businesses grow by accident. The owner gets up early, goes to bed late and somehow the whole thing comes together as it discovers which are the open doors to push against. Business growth by fluke (despite what the owners and … [Read more...]
Celebrating Success
When did you last raise a glass to your company’s success? Celebrating achievements not only recognises and rewards the hard work of your employees; it also brings life to an organisation, boosting morale and feelings of … [Read more...]
The Business Growth Paradox
The Growth Paradox is simple. It is the (naïve) belief that as you grow the business and take on more team members, clients, and business systems that things should get easier. And, of course, they don’t. What happens is that things get … [Read more...]
What do Medium-Size Businesses really need?
For the last twenty years I have been working with successful high-growth firms and I have to say that a set of themes recur again and again. While this is no perfect model of business growth these themes just won’t go … [Read more...]