What not to do on International Women's Day
Don't get caught out by genderwashing. International Women's Day (IWD) fast approaches (March 8th), and last year many businesses got caught…
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Leadership
The shrinking labour market-what's it all about?
Recruitment and Retention are major subjects of conversation in the business world, and indeed in the media in the UK at the moment. Having …
Let's Talk About Purpose
Let’s talk about purpose! What is purpose? What is this “why” that everyone is talking about and what does it mean? Let’s ask google: Purpo…
How to Develop a Wellbeing Strategy
EVER HAD THAT FEELING OF PANIC, WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING LATE...YOU KNOW WHERE YOU NEED TO BE...BUT YOU'RE LOST...IF ONLY YOU HAD A MAP AND KNEW …
Reflections........
Yesterday's BECBC Member Meeting was themed on Collaboration, a word that is easily used but not so easily put into action! It provided me w…
CforLP partners BECBC for ‘Leading with Purpose’ masterclass
Business leaders, educators, and young people are being invited to learn about ‘Leading with Purpose’ in the next Masterclass organised by t…
Is quiet quitting a consequence of leadership atavism?
If quiet quitting is a form of 'working to rule', 'working to a wage' or simply following orders, are we retrenching back to a more basic fo…
One STEP backwards three steps forwards?
Following the recent news that Cumbria has not been successful in the bid for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) Project, it…
Supporting employees in the face of rising living costs.
To some extent all times are uncertain and challenging, but at the moment we’re seeing food prices rising at their fastest pace in nearly 15…
Quiet quitting; is it really a bad thing or just misunderstood?
Is quiet quitting really such a bad thing, what role do bonuses play and did COVID and remote working increase quiet quitting? If quiet qui…
Are we looking at leadership from the wrong perspective?
It's widely accepted that leaders can operate at any level, it's not just a 'top of the pyramid' position, however they generally influence …
When it comes to your Wellbeing Strategy, do you play Guess Who?
When it comes to wellbeing most organisations operate a 'guess who strategy' Over the last 5 years I have witnessed many organisations inve…
When it comes to Wellbeing, why moments of disruption and distraction matter.
A number of years ago I read 'Moments of Truth' by Jan Carlzon and was blown away by the simplicity and ingenuity of his approach to leaders…