Leadership

Good leadership is essential for any business, large or small.  Leadership is the ability to motivate a group of people to achieve common goals. A good leader knows how to inspire employees and create a positive work environment. 

 

If you’re looking for information about developing leadership skills, you are in the right place. We have created a Leadership Hub to share intelligent, inspirational and insightful articles about leadership.

 

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Latest Leadership articles

Meetings

Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings

Most meetings are not effective and that loss of productivity is not great for your business. How can you improve the quality of your meetings?

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Is a Four-Day Week Practical?

Four day week. Is it practical to work a four-day week? MAD-HR Director & HR Expert Carole Burman answers this question in Business East.

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Why You Should Choose MAD-HR!

Choosing MAD-HR - We're very lucky to have lots of wonderful clients in our MAD-HR crowd, hear one of their stories. John Jackaman from Infusions tells all.

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Are Your Line Managers Holding Your Business Back?

Are your line managers and supervisors making your workforce rock? Maintaining morale is key to business success, make sure you get it right.

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Growing Your Business with a Winning Team

Your business will only be as successful as your team. So as a senior manager, or entrepreneurial business owner, how do you create that winning team?

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Business Networking – Rapport and Relationship Building

Networking is a vital part of any successful business. You need certain skills to succeed, such as how you introduce yourself.

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Leading by Example – Maintaining Your Edge

A growing, forward thinking company needs strong leadership to drive strategies forward. We help you maintain your edge with successful leadership skills.

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5 Top Tips on managing HR in a small business

Small Business HR Tips - With a sound business plan, it won't be long before you'll need to look at your HR function. Read our Top 5 HR Tips.

Leadership

How to be a trusted and authentic leader

Being a good manager is not the same as to be a trusted and authentic leader. We share our top tips on the skills to develop to achieve quality leadership

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How to Effectively Manage A Team

How to Effectively Manage A Team - Being an effective team manager is the first step to being an effective leader. Here are our top tips to help you succeed

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How to deal with those not pulling their weight

Teams can bring all sorts of issues to the fore, made harder when there are some slackers so how do you deal with those not pulling their weight

Change Management

How to Run Effective Team Meetings

Getting your people together can be so powerful and have such positive outcomes, so we share our top HR tips on running effective team meetings

Social Media

Can social media posts be used in disciplinaries?

With the use of social media being such an engrained part of our lives, can social media posts be used in disciplinaries as evidence?

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Training: How to hire and manage people

How to hire and manage people is a one day course that will provide those with HR responsibility with everything you need to know about managing people.

Budget

What the Budget means for you as a business

Following on from Hammond's budget announcement on 8 March 2017, we have put together a round-up of outcomes and what the Budget means for you as a business

Change Management

How to deal with change management effectively

Just the word “change” can result in unease but it is inevitable and unavoidable. Here are our tips on how to deal with change management effectively

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4 Time Management Tips for Senior Managers

Senior Manager's time is precious and often your team will be relying on you to give them direction. We share our 4 Time Management Tips.

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What can an Interim HR Director do for you?

We look at how hiring an Interim HR Director can be the ideal way to provide resource when you need it to manage an effective change programme

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How to achieve your workplace New Year resolutions

The New Year is time for new goals, here we give you 6 Tips on how to achieve your workplace New Year resolutions and feel great!

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You could have an annual leave problem this Easter…

Easter 2017 falls in April presenting what may be an unidentified annual leave problem. Here we look at managing this annual leave period.

The impact of Leadership on businesses

Good leadership is essential to the success of any business. Leaders set the tone for the entire organisation, and their actions can have a profound impact on employee morale, motivation, and productivity. Leaders also play a pivotal role in setting the strategic direction of the company and making decisions that will determine its long-term success. In short, businesses cannot afford to underestimate the importance of leadership. 

However, leadership is not always easy, and it requires a unique set of skills and qualities. The best leaders are those who are able to inspire others, make tough decisions, and think creatively. They also have a strong sense of self-awareness and an ability to build relationships with others. If a business is to thrive, it needs leaders who possess these qualities.

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