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Bob Hayward

 

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The consequences of losing your way

Why are you in business? A typical answer is that you are in business to make money. If that’s the first thing that popped into your mind, then you have already lost your way

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Why are you struggling to change course?

An exploration of some of the reason for the high probability of change initiative failure

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The Value of Networking

The concept of business networking has become so much a part of our everyday lives that we have forgotten what it means or how to do it

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A famous boat race

It has long been assumed that the implementation of strategy has failed largely because employees didn’t understand it. While that may be true it is not the full story...

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Punching Above Your Weight

How can you, as a small firm, win the larger contracts against your biggest rivals? Here are the seven principles that you need to follow...

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Are meetings really the cornerstone of organisational life?

Ask a group of managers at random; which activity wastes most of your time and causes you the most frustration and most of your audience will say “meetings.”

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Do I really need to repeat myself?

Said is done isn't it? This is a dangerous falsehood perceived as a truth for many. Said is NOT done and the key messages of any organisation must be repeated often and for a sustained period of time to secure employee e

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An inconsistency in your message destroys trust

Ensuring that key message is spread across an organisation without distortion and any loss of the vitality and energy key to the success of the initiative. What can help create conformity?

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Non-aligned priorities across an organisation can kill any initiative

Two of the issues that make the prioritisation of change implementation difficult are those around hierarchy and silos; these could kill an change programme

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One communication problem is involvement or the lack of it

In the excitement to reveal the great new future to the masses three things are often forgotten with regard to the type of internal communication required to win over a critical mass of active supporters.

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