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Acing your End-of-Year Reviews

It’s that time of year again… Whilst we’re not quite into the Christmas countdown just yet, it certainly is the season to plan your End-of-Year Reviews. Evaluating employees’ performance, assessing skills and development areas, and reviewing goals: it’s a process many leaders and managers find daunting. How do you deliver feedback in a way that will genuinely help the individual and the company? Having a powerful conversation Knowing how to have a good one-to-one conversation is key. Making your feedback come across more as coaching than criticism, with a two-sided… Read More »Acing your End-of-Year Reviews

Live 😊 Laugh 😄 Work 🤷‍♂️

In this month’s blog we have exciting news, and we share our thoughts on worklife balance. It’s also National Inclusion Week from 26 September, so we’ve been looking at our inclusivity workshop and thinking about what inclusion means to us.  An announcement!  We are so excited to announce that we are sponsors of the Sifted Summit at Magazine London on 5 and 6 October! With hundreds of founders, start-ups and investors, we’ll be taking our management and wellbeing programmes out to the world! We look forward to meeting some cutting-edge… Read More »Live 😊 Laugh 😄 Work 🤷‍♂️

Is it time for your summer stocktake?

With things slowing down for many of us at this time of year, it’s an opportunity to review how you feel about your work and what you need to do to keep on track with your goals. Time for reflection I used to work in a college library and the summer at work was very different to the rest of the year, transforming from a buzzing, busy hub (yes, libraries have changed!) to a calm retreat, with just one or two of us working. It was a time to have… Read More »Is it time for your summer stocktake?

Happy New Year!

A RAY OF LIGHT Happy New Year! Does it feel like an exciting start for you? Are you happy to look at the year ahead? I think there’s something about the bustle of festive season, some light in that very dark time of year, for relaxing and contemplation after all the hard work of the year. In the UK it’s been cold, damp and dark this winter, but those could be said to be perfect conditions for some deep thinking. Time to cosy up with a hot drink and decide… Read More »Happy New Year!

Giving off the right vibe: keeping a common culture as you grow

‘Culture’. We’re not talking about high-brow art galleries and opera here – or even mysterious organic matter cultivated in a petri dish. We’re talking about the common values, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions shared by the people in your organisation: the things that consciously and unconsciously define the character and personality of your business – the ‘vibe’ it projects. As a start-up you probably found your culture and vibe established itself quite naturally, reflecting the ambitions and values of the founder(s) and becoming a bonding ethos without having to define or… Read More »Giving off the right vibe: keeping a common culture as you grow

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Time to be picky: How to select the right people to be managers in a fast-growing business

It’s an exciting time: you’ve started scaling your business, progressing from upstart start-up to fully-fledged business success. But as your business grows, you soon realise you need to increase the number of people managers in the team. The early days where everyone simply reported to the leadership team is no longer sustainable: as a properly-functioning larger business you need another layer of management – responsible for people as much as process. You might recruit externally, with careful work by your HR team to attract the right candidates. Or, you might… Read More »Time to be picky: How to select the right people to be managers in a fast-growing business

How to select the right people to be managers in a fast-growing business