“If you can go into a restaurant in New York City you can come into the office. And we want you in the office” James Gorman, CEO Morgan Stanley Which sounds clear enough, but will not work this week in the UK: official guidance continues to be work from home until July 19th. Will we,…
My work with start-up businesses in the UK reveals how important it is to have a plan. Even if not totally sure about your end point, a vision will provide a sense of direction and enable you to set objectives and goals. These look great on screen – even on paper – and to make…
“How are you?”. Maybe the world’s most overused question, until perhaps during the pandemic when we have realised we need to pay attention to how people really are feeling. This is not just empathy, there are good solid reasons for doing so. As you are asking, thank you, I am feeling fine now. I will…
I enjoyed some useful input from the Cranfield University Sustainability Group on the path to NetZero. This fascinating input came from Prof. Paul de Leeuw from Aberdeen University Energy Transition Institute. With the COP26 summit in Glasgow in November, plus the G7 Summit in Cornwall in June, how we manage climate change remains significantly on…
“I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. My only problem is that I don’t know which half.” This quote – variously attributed to Henry Ford, Lord Leverhulme, John Wanamaker or J.C. Penney, continues to circulate the budget discussions – especially and inevitably – about marketing. We all want to control…
The topic of Return on Investment (RoI) in training will never go away. Despite the cliché “if you think training is expensive, try ignorance”, organisations training their staff will always look at one definite and most visible outcome of training: the cost. That is the easy bit. Establishing the benefits of training in similar definitive…