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7 06, 2017

Why losing employees may be your fault…

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T14:32:48+01:00June 7th, 2017|Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, Passion, SMART Goals, Success|Comments Off on Why losing employees may be your fault…

You’re heartbroken! You just didn’t see it coming. You thought things were going so well, but now it’s over, and you’re gutted. You keep asking yourself “where did I go wrong?”, and “what could I have done differently”. And slowly it dawns on you. “I treated them the same as everyone else, and now I’m back to where I started”. It reads like the love of your life has walked out on you. And whilst there was never any “romance”, professionally the dalliance is over. Your new hire has resigned. Perhaps you had an inkling that things weren’t working out [...]

13 08, 2016

Why do we focus on incompetencies?

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T14:33:54+01:00August 13th, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Success|Comments Off on Why do we focus on incompetencies?

Guest Blog by Sarah Scarratt We have quite a big garden, takes about 2 hours to mow with a sit-on mower, so it’s always a good opportunity to take some time to ponder and reflect on life. Most recently, I was thinking about a psychotherapist I know and how I feel so incompetent around her. She’s tall, much taller than me, and always seems so calm and capable. “Bet she can’t use a mower though”, I thought to myself. And I realised that I’ve actually been using a sit-on mower for 15 years. I wondered how many other colleagues can [...]

3 06, 2016

Creating a Coaching Culture

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00June 3rd, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, SMART Goals, Success|Comments Off on Creating a Coaching Culture

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="true" align="left" margin_bottom="0"]UK business and economy is back on track and is growing at it’s fastest pace since the downturn of the recession. However, since the experience of the recession businesses and business managers mindset has changed in the way they operate, now having a focus not slipping back in to hard times and the expectation on people within the business is higher. Ensuring that everything is in place for everyone in the organisation, Managers, Leaders and Employees to enable them to succeed is as crucial a part of the competitive advantage as is being competitive. In fact, having [...]

5 04, 2016

The Standard You Walk Past Is the Standard You Accept

By RicHayden|2023-09-21T13:06:56+01:00April 5th, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Success|Comments Off on The Standard You Walk Past Is the Standard You Accept

Lt. General Morrison gave a short but powerful speech in which he strongly condemns aggression against women. His statement “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept” became golden words and inspired many. Morrison’s words serve to awake the sleeping conscience of the leaders and higher authorities specifically and everyone else’s in general. This powerful quote is applicable in all walks of life, including the business world where it gives the following lessons: The Leader is Responsible: It is the responsibility of the leader to take care of everyone and to eliminate any kind of discrimination. Things can change, [...]

29 03, 2016

5 Simple Ways to Screw up your Presentation

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00March 29th, 2016|Belief, Business, Engagement, Entertainment, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, Passion, Presenting, Sales Performance, Success|Comments Off on 5 Simple Ways to Screw up your Presentation

The art of presenting, to groups or individuals is essential in todays working world. There are now so many different ways to present too, from face to face and right they way across digital media. Delivering an effective presentation can be great, but can also go quite wrong. You are going to screw up your presentation if you don’t take care of the following 5 simple things: No Eye contact: One of the best things you can do when connecting with an audience, is to actually connect with the audience. You should not turn your back towards the audience, if [...]

22 03, 2016

Why Doesn’t Your Team Listen?

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00March 22nd, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Success, Uncategorised|Comments Off on Why Doesn’t Your Team Listen?

You assign a task and when the deadline approaches, you don’t get anything ready. You ask to present the ongoing project but when its time, the presentation is all screwed up. You leave the office giving instructions to your team members but when you return expecting them to put forward the results, you see that nothing has been implemented. Why is this so? Have you made any effort to find out the reasons why your team won’t listen to you? Is it their shortcoming or is something lacking at your end? Communication??? Whether you are the CEO of an organization [...]

19 02, 2016

5 Tips for a Successful Day

By RicHayden|2024-04-09T13:05:05+01:00February 19th, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, Sales Performance, Success|Comments Off on 5 Tips for a Successful Day

Success is a most desired thing …it is sweet, charming and attractive. Whatever our view of success is, climbing the corporate ladder or doing a great job, being the best at what we do, what ever it is we all feel better being successful. However, this “Most Wanted” thing is not always so easy to get. We have to take the tough times and we need to go through some hard work before we achieve success. Sometimes we have to face failure, and then we wonder what could be done to have a successful day? While [...]

13 06, 2014

The Happiness Effect

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00June 13th, 2014|Belief, Customer Service, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Sales Performance, Success, The Happiness Effect|Comments Off on The Happiness Effect

The Happiness Effect The sun comes out and a wonderful thing happens across the country, everyones state of happiness is elevated. Even more so on a Friday as everyone leaves work for the weekend full of wonder at what the days of rest may bring. Bear gardens fill up with the chitter chatter of happy engaging in happy times. I was in a business today that I had been doing some work with and realised that all this was happening without the aid of a beer garden. Everyone was going about their daily work with big smiles on [...]

17 03, 2014

Features and Benefits, what’s the difference?

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00March 17th, 2014|Consultative Selling, Customer Service, Engagement, Passion, Sales, Sales Performance, Success|Comments Off on Features and Benefits, what’s the difference?

Nobody who bought an alarm clock wanted an alarm clock… Last week I was running a sales training workshop with a group of experienced sales people. Some had been on previous training programmes over the years and all of them thought they could explain the difference between a Feature and a Benefit, in a sales situation. None of them got it right. It even got a bit heated when someone continued to try and benefit sell to me using only the features of the product. So here goes: FEATURE = a characteristic of your product or promotion. [...]

9 01, 2014

Is competition good for small businesses?

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00January 9th, 2014|Leadership, Management, Sales, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Is competition good for small businesses?

Many people when running a business think it's a good idea to try and avoid competition within the market. Now everyone has their own opinion, it really depends on the type of business you are running and the people that you work with. It doesn't work for everyone. BUT here are a few reasons why a bit of market competition is good for a small business. 1. Competition gives you time to improve your customer service When your business is booming in sales and in profits, there simply isn't enough time to evaluate every customer but when there’s market competition, you’ll [...]