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Excel is fantastic but are you relying on Excel too much and have you adopted to new technology?
Excel had its 40th birthday last year. It is the most used software (outside of Outlook) and some teams live in Excel day in day out. In fact looking up the statistics Microsoft say there are over a billion users of Excel. I have personally been delivering Excel training for over 30 years and seen it change from Excel 4 – single sheet files to its current form.
Menopause, Wellbeing and the Hidden Risks Shaping Your Workforce: Why every business can’t Ignore This conversation
In high‑pressure, male‑dominated environments conversations about wellbeing often focus on safety, fatigue and operational risk. But there’s a quieter, often overlooked factor influencing performance, retention and team dynamics, Menopause and Midlife Wellbeing. For many organisations, this isn’t yet seen as a business issue…..but it is one. Although many have yet to address this as a business issue, its impact is evident across sites and project teams.
Humanising your leadership approach in a digital world.
With the new gold rush toward AI are you chasing the gold or selling the shovels? History tells us the shovel sellers did a brilliant piece of rock solid (pardon the pun) business, while a handful of gold prospectors hit the big time, while most gold prospectors were left broke and disillusioned.
Leading with trust in a digital world
If you think about how clients choose you, how people join your organisation or how you choose suppliers, very often your answer will include a healthy amount of trust. In a digital age, building trust is becoming more challenging with the level of misinformation and misleading claims and content wherever you turn.
"Prune" a business in trouble to turn it round
A fund management business faced collapse, after some years of successful and profitable growth. (These companies invest your cash in equities and bonds to grow your wealth, often through pensions or other investment products. They mostly sell those products through brokers or financial advisors).
The value of a business, its projects, initiatives and strategy
Finance professionals certainly know all about this issue, but business leaders and their teams need to understand it too. And those who build digital-twin business models for them should appreciate the big “answer” that a whole-business model can provide.
Handling Tricky Emotions
Customer-facing roles ask a lot of people. Not just in terms of knowledge or skill, but in how they show up - day after day, conversation after conversation. Handling questions, complaints, and emotions with care and professionalism isn’t always easy, especially in moments where others may be frustrated, upset, or not behaving at their best. Never is this more tricky than when the customer is a visitor and our team are custodians of historical items and records that can prove contentious or upsetting.
How can essential training programs be effectively carried out for employees who are facing a continuously high workload and must grant constant availability and on-call readiness?
Sorry, I’m too busy, there is no time left in my diary for training! Does this resonate and sound familiar? In a few industries like MedTech and healthcare some job profiles need to be constantly available and on-call ready.
Why "they knew what they were getting into" is costing you good people title
We delivered a leadership programme recently for a healthcare organisation dealing with high turnover in its supervisory layer. When we asked managers what support they'd received when they were first promoted, the most common answer was: none. "I just watched how my manager did it and tried to copy that."
The best driver doesn't always make the best manager. We keep forgetting that.
A few years ago, we ran a management essentials programme for a logistics company in the Midlands. The new cohort of team leaders were, almost without exception, their best operational people — promoted because they delivered. Within six months, two had resigned and a third had been quietly moved back to an individual role. Not because they weren't talented. Because nobody had ever shown them what managing people actually involves.
The Equity Analyst's Curse: Remembering Everything
Jorge Luis Borges published a story in 1942 called "Funes the Memorious." It runs about ten pages, and it has bothered me for most of my career.
The Model Isn't the Analysis. The Analysis Is Everything You Cut Out of the Model.
The first DCF I ever built had 17 tabs. I remember because I counted them, proudly, when I handed it to my new Boss. He didn't open it. He asked me what the three things were that mattered most to the valuation. I started to explain the WACC build. He cut me off. "No. The three things about the business."
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