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The UK’s furlough scheme ends 30 September and employers who haven’t brought people back to work will need to make redundancies. A lot...

So we’re going back to the office are we? Are we sure that’s what we want to do? Or are we just drifting back because ‘everyone else’...

It’s the third Monday in January. How close are you to meeting those business targets you set yourself for this period? With no sign of...

The Chartered Management Institute has been exploring the extraordinary challenges and new ways of working that emerged in 2020. With the...

Here we go again! Working From Home (or as it now seems to me – Living At Work) is going to be in place a lot longer than we had hoped....

Many of us are having a re-think about life after Covid-19. So much has changed. So many of our day to day activities and interactions...

From yesterday (3 August 2020) it was expected that many more people would return to their offices. The Government advice to ‘work from...

‘Engage Brain Before Opening Mouth’ goes the traditional saying, and never has this been more true than when you’ve got a difficult...

However you are planning for your business to emerge from lockdown, you'll find lots of suggestions at Steps For Growth. Whether you...

I generally write for business leaders and business owner managers with information to support you in leading your team. Today I want to...

In Part 1 I explained what is post-traumatic growth PTG and that coaching and goal setting can support its achievement. In this article I...

I’ve written before about goal setting, why it’s important and why it needs to be done differently when working remotely. This article is...

Everywhere we look it seems people are looking for examples of good leadership. So many profound changes have taken place in society and...

We’re all witnessing significant changes being made to adapt to Covid-19 and the socially distanced society. From major fashion houses...

It now seems like FOGO (fear of going out) has replaced FOMO (fear of missing out) and people are reluctant to return to the workplace...

We’ve learned to use a lot of software since we started working from home, from Zoom to shared databases and new cloud based platforms...

I get it of course – you’re in crisis mode now – and focused solely on the financial stability of your business. The impact of Covid-19...

Yes! I believe there’s never been a better time for a high quality appraisal discussion. During this enforced isolation, often involving...

You might call it company politics, cliques or departmental competitiveness - Silos are caused by the formal and informal barriers that...

So that’s it. You’ve set some people up to work from home, a few remain at the workplace (socially distanced of course) and the rest are...