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  • Posted on 11 Feb 2010 at 10:15

    Could your staff become ‘sleuths’?

    A business with 150 employees recently asked me to design some training for them. Their goal? To put 20 of these employees, in non-sales roles, but with regular customer contact on to an ‘opportunity-spotting’ footing. The business was already in good shape, with many awards and long-term satisfied customers...
    Author: LMW | Date Submitted: 11/02/10 | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
  • Posted on 21 Jan 2010 at 12:17

    Don’t Rush Those Resolutions

      So we should be talking about New Year’s resolutions - but they mostly don’t work and when there’s freezing weather and uncertainty is a central theme in the zeitgeist, the last imprecation most of us need is to self-improve. Maybe this is a better time for analysis and reflection...
    Author: LMW | Date Submitted: 21/01/10 | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
  • Posted on 05 Jan 2010 at 04:14

    Top Quality New Year’s Resolutions – 2010

    So here we are, another new year. This one filled with optimism that the recession is finally over and organisations can get on with growing instead of surviving. As tradition dictates I have some new year’s resolutions: 1. I will try my best not to despair/ roll my eyes/ bang...
    Author: LMW | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
  • Posted on 22 Dec 2009 at 03:54

    Seasons Greetings and Seasoned Debate

    Seasons Greetings and Seasoned Debate A Merry Christmas to all and here’s hoping for a very prosperous New Year. I thought incorporating a number of topical issues….. the BA (on/off) strike and union leadership, the Potential Cadbury hostile takeover bid: American leadership Vs British leadership, Obama receiving Nobel Peace...
    Author: LMW | Date Submitted: 22/12/09 | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
  • Posted on 11 Dec 2009 at 11:04

    Motivation without the Money

      At the moment, the collective managerial unconscious in Wales resonates with talk of ‘workforce engagement’. And when you come down to it and straight talk, this is always about the question: how do we motivate people without money? Research into job change shows that people rarely move positions...
    Author: LMW | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
  • Posted on 24 Nov 2009 at 03:25

    Never mind the width, feel the quality

    Return on Investment (ROI) in Leadership and Management Development Just because there are hundreds of development programmes available does not actually mean that Wales has good quality, effective Leadership and Management Development (LMD). There is a school of thought that says that actually the opposite is true: we have great...
    Author: LMW | Date Submitted: 24/11/09 | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
  • Posted on 10 Nov 2009 at 01:38

    What’s Love Got To Do With It?

      A few months ago, a local authority in Wales asked me to run a leadership workshop. Attendance would be voluntary and many participants were likely to be past or present attendees on a highly-rated action learning leadership programme. They would know about situational leadership, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, followership,...
    Author: LMW | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
  • Posted on 22 Sep 2009 at 12:07

    Why spend the money?

    My first blog by Gary Walpole, Director of Leadership Management Wales (LMW)

    Author: default | Date Submitted: 22/09/09 | Comments: 0 | View / Add comments
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