As a leader, you probably have big changes ahead of you this year.

Here are some tips to stop you feeling drained of energy early on in those all important change projects! Read the full article here.

Smooth, efficient, cohesive teamwork creates a high performing team, and it’s rare. It takes a lot for leaders to get their teams to this point and in many cases, they fail. Once a team has reached the point whereby individuals within the team work cohesively and collectively towards the team goal, they hold a serious competitive advantage over their competitors. The emergent properties of a high performing team create this advantage. Read the full article here.

Mind coding is about personal resilience. With a bit of self-awareness we can develop our own cyber-security or GDPR of the mind. This article covers quite a bit of philosophical musings, but wraps up with some good practical steps for self-defence against the stream of incoming messages we all get these days, some of which are designed to influence us without permission. Read the full article here.

Your team is fantastic, they turn up to work on time, they deliver an excellent service to your customers, have a good team morale and that shows in the P&L. They perform.

But, what is the essence of their high performance, and what happens when change occurs — when someone joins? Leaves? Or something just goes wrong? Understanding what makes your team more than the sum of its parts will help you respond to challenges. Read the full article here.

At Alembic, we are a family business. I (Jess) work for my Dad (Nick) and my Mum (Sarah) founded the business with him. My sister, Molly, is also mentioned in this article. We had a discussion exploring our different experiences of working together. We focused on where to draw the boundary between work and home, how you define what that means, how each of us defines it personally, and how we work it out together. Read the full article here.

There are days where office politics or that nagging personal conflict between members of your team just gets too much. That stuff takes up way too much of your energy, and everyone else’s around you, and it’s getting in the way of progress. At times, you can almost feel office productivity creaking as a result. Read the full article here.

How are you coping? How are your team coping?

We are all crisis managers now, as Covid-19 wreaks indiscriminate havoc on every business.  The stresses are significant.  We hope you are coping with it all well. This article has key tips you to cope better and be the leader your team need. Read the full article here.

Mediating isn't just for divorce lawyers. For C-suite leaders such as chief executives, managing directors or business owners, mediation skills are an essential part of their toolkit. It's a soft skill that can be called upon time and again when steering a business through turbulent times.

Every leader knows that the ability to assist with negotiations without having to stamp your authority is one that can help see you through some pretty tricky exchanges. Read the full article here.

Far from the hoped-for flourishing of family relationships, with members happily working together, family businesses are all too often a place of tension and conflict. This can be personalised, centred on individuals with judgement, blame, frustration and anger. In this article we explore the environmental sources of conflict, where paradoxes and polarities arise constantly and naturally, driving these tensions.

We suggest a different way of framing conflict: as environmental rather than personal, which gives family business leaders clues for new approaches so that they can return to flourishing. Read the full article here.

Life as a leader inevitably means you're going to encounter hard conversations. You might be great at them, but if you're like most people, you will find it really hard to get them just right. You might get emotional, put them off, say the wrong thing and make things worse. Anxiety about having them is as bad as the conversation itself. Right? Getting it right has never seemed more important than right now. Read the full article here.

It is now becoming more widely accepted that building a positive corporate culture can be hugely beneficial to an organisation. In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that, when done properly, culture can become a form of competitive advantage for a business. This results from the numerous improvements that a healthy, thriving culture can deliver. Read the full article here.

It’s natural for you as a leader to become frustrated when you’re cranking the handle at full tilt, but it seems like those around you are only just showing up for work, and some barely capable of getting through the average day. Sometimes, it’s painfully clear that motivation and purpose are out of alignment. It probably feels like you're clear on strategy, and they aren't. Read the full article here.

What's ESG? How can it benefit me?

ESG is a set of values that can reduce churn, increase buy-in from employees and customers, and increase the value of your business. Read the full article here.

When looking at hiring a consultant, a lot of people do a double take when they see the fee being charged. "What? £450 an hour? Isn't that a bit much?! Surely we could do it cheaper!" However, before you fling that proposal away in a huff, consider the following 5 points. Read the full article here.

Even though our clients are successful, don't believe for a minute this means everything always works.  Success comes from the heap of expensive failures along the way.

We always start by being presented with one failure.  Often, the managing director comes to see us to talk about a problem they have been aware of for some time, have perhaps tried to fix, and have failed to change. Read the full article here.

The word ‘change’ is often overlooked. At just 6 letters, the word is diminutive in appearance, almost insignificant, but it holds a far deeper meaning than it reveals upon first sight. Change gets used with such carefree abandon that its meaning is often diluted down to a perfunctory term. But if you focus on the act of change itself, whether it’s on a personal, business or even a global level, it can be incredibly powerful. In fact, it transforms into the complete opposite of insignificant to become a catalyst for something new. Read the full article here.