Leading others: how to build on potential and help others realise their greatness

American entrepreneur and author, John C. Maxwell once said —

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your Read more

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Ask me anything: the common questions I get about business and recruitment

From the weird, to the wacky, to the common questions, I feel confident in saying there hasn’t been a question that I haven’t come across in the twenty years of being in the people business

However, there are some Read more

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What they don’t tell you about running a business and having a team…

A new month, new Bespoke HR theme! 

This month we’re running Business Bootcamp. This is a series that will uncover some of the ‘makes’ and ‘breaks’ of running a business. 

Although we are a HR and recruiting business, we Read more

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The Value of Employees Being All In (And 7 Ways to Capitalise On It)

If you don’t think it’s important that your employees understand, and hopefully even stand behind, what your business does, then you miss out on some amazing benefits of engaged employees.

And, no, the answer to why employees should enjoy Read more

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5 Research Proven Methods to More Engaged Employees

Don’t take those happy, passionate, motivated employees for granted. They're a rare find! Read on to find out what to do about those “do the least amount possible” employees. Read more
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What’s your employee experience wavelength?

Take a hard look at how your employees feel about their experience. Are they happy? Making plans to leave? Create a wavelength and see where your dips are. Read more
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Synergy: getting more out of your team

What exactly is synergy?

I simply define it as:

Two singles that when combined, produce three (or more).

A worthwhile goal, especially in the context of producing your team’s business objectives…

Goals like: output, sales and profit!

I’m Read more

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Say these phrases to build the perfect team

In 2012, Google set out on what would become a 3-year project, code-named Project Aristotle, to discover what makes up the perfect team. 

The research team tracked, interviewed and monitored the performance of over 100 Google groups Read more

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Is your team setup to succeed?

It’s an all-too-common scenario:

You’ve pulled out all the stops…

Brought together some of the top individuals you could find…

The team can only be described as superstars.

No question, they have the skills and talent to get the Read more

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🙌 15 of my favourite team building games

Teams work better when they know, like and trust each other.

This week to kick-off our Team Building topic, I’d like to present 15 of my favourite team-building games!

They are broken into 3 Read more

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