Client Testimonials
Business Articles:
Richard writes regular articles. These are now appearing on a regular basis in the business press.
Change Articles:
- The Change Challenge for Professional Firms: An analysis of the challenges in professional firms such as lawyers and accountants to master change. This draws heavily on David Maister’s work "True Professionalism"
- What HR Can Do To Give Change a Chance: A practical guide to help HR professionals give Change a real chance of success
- 5 Steps to Succssful Change: A simple 5 step plan how to manage strategic Change, of especial interest to HR professionals
- Why Change Fails: a provocative exploration into the reasons why Change fails and HR’s role in that failure
- Mutation & Evolution looks at the importance of Evolution in a changing world and examines the art of learning from mistakes
- You Get the Results you Reward: An exploration of the relationship between Rewards & Results, which examines the art of picking the right ‘stroke’ for the right ‘folk’.
- The Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men, or how not to plan your changes: a light hearted examination of the lessons to be learnt from some poor schmuck’s suffering!
- Present Tense Future Perfect: explores how we think about and use our time, and issues you a challenge to help you make Change begin to happen
- Change is the only constant: looks at why Change is on everyone's agenda whether they are aware of it or not
- Adapt or Die: looks at some drivers of Change
- Time for a change: examines personal Change and helps you improve your life balance
- Wine not what happens when you stop changing: looks at what happens when Change leaves you behind, as it did with the French wine growers
- Congruence: explores the secret of powerful communication and examines the myth that words only account for 7% of communication
- Thoughts on the Nature of Change: or why DIY efforts aren't enough: reviews the value of an external perspective in Change
- Blockers, & how to handle them: gives some tips on how to handle people who block Change
- The Physics of Change: a fascinating look at how physics can inform our understanding of the Change process
- BPR2 .. Breakthrough Personal Refocus: looks at people centred Change
Leadership Articles:
- Managing a Smaller Business: Gives some valuable clues and tips on how to run and smaller business or team
- Sounding Board: The Value of a Sounding Board: or who should a leader listen to? This explores the value an outsider can bring to a leader and how this can impact on the quality of their leadership
- Leadership: Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Key lessons in business and personal strategy from squash world champion Hashim Khan
- Leadership: What It takes?: Explores what it takes to be a leader and the nature of leadership
- Leadership - The missing ingredient: Looks at what is sometimes missing in our leaders
- Motivational Leadership: explores what it takes to get people to follow your leadership
- Leadership, Change & Communication: examines what England's rugby failures can teach us about the importance of communication in leadership
- Leadership: Succession challenges: reviews the lessons the Labour Party can teach us about grooming tomorrow's leaders
- No Pain, No Gain: examines whether leaders are supposed to help people deal with the pain of Change
Culture Articles:
- Out of the Box: looks at a well known scientific experiment and what it teaches us about creating a Change adverse environment
- 100th Monkey Syndrome - or what it takes to make change happen: examines another famous experiment and it's lessons for Change
- It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it!: explores the importance of HOW things are done. And the crucial component of doing not only the right things, but doing them the right way
- Business Ethics: looks at the role business ethics plays in creating the right culture for success, and gives some guidance on getting them right
Communication Articles:
- Strategic Communication: A simple guide to leaders to help them communicate clearly and powerfully in times of crisis
- Miscommunication - an object lesson in how not to get your message over effectively. You are invited to learn from this true life story and improve your own communications strategy
- Vital Communication: explains why communication is so crucial in not just business but the business of Change. It also uses some NLP precepts to help examine this
Other Articles:
- The Power of the Dark Side - examines the impact of the flipside of our strengths and how this can lead to ruin, plus some handy pointers at avoiding this trap
- Coaching - what has it done for us?: A review of the benefits and reason for investing in executive coaching.
- Design to Innovate: An exploration of the impact Design can have on your business, even if you are a service company! Design is as much about how you see and value things as how they look.
- Gold Medal Performance: Sir Steve Redgrave, shares his recipe for success and goal setting
- Are you a 'Secret Survivor'?: are you thriving or just surviving? This looks at the role of the flight/fight mechanism has in our lives
- Why are you working so hard? Helps look at the real motivation behind your hard work and checks if you are on purpose
- Risky Business: an article on risk management, and some strategies to deal with this
- A Question of Questions: explores the importance of good questions and what they can teach us
- Are you dot competent? Looks at some of the lessons of the dot com boom
Mini Articles:
- There are a series of mini articles on the blog that may also be of interest