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Get the most from your team
Create Space for the Work That Matters You hire people to benefit your business. You don’t hire them to spend their days buried in email, distracted by pings, or half-listening on calls while trying to do real work in the margins. But let’s be honest: that’s where too...
KPIs: What’s the right number?
KPIs: How Many Is Too Many? And How Few Is Too Few? If you’ve ever walked into a meeting room and seen a wall full of Red-Amber-Green (or RAG) status KPIs, you might have wondered: is that really helping anyone? On the flip side, if your leadership team is only...
Team: Stop praising hard work
Why Praising Hard Work Is Wrong—and What to Do Instead When employees put in long hours, sacrifice weekends, and go above and beyond, it’s easy to see it as a sign of commitment. And in many ways, it is. People want to do a good job. They care. They’re trying. But...
KPIs vs OKRs
Do OKRs replace KPIs? There’s a lot of buzz about OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), and for good reason. Businesses are shifting to more agile ways of working—moving faster from concept to validation to implementation. Traditional annual planning cycles are being...
Motivation – Beyond Money & Praise
Why Money and Titles Aren’t Enough to Motivate Your Team Think bonuses, pay rises, and “Employee of the Month” schemes are the best ways to motivate your team? Think again. They’re just two of nine motivators identified by James Sale’s Motivational Maps, and they’re...
How coaching helped two Co-Founders grow their revenue five-fold
Needing other jobs to make ends meet When Toni and Nicki came to us for CEO business coaching, they had an established business they were deeply passionate about. Their forest school was thriving in terms of its purpose and impact, but financially, it was falling...
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