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John McLachlan, author and co-founder of Monkey Puzzle Training & Consultancy examines the differences between action-oriented and reflective leaders and which approach is best.  For a startup to succeed, a variety of factors need to be right, and arguably the most important of these factors is leadership. Unfortunately, horses for courses is a thing, so there isn’t one single le...
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If your business is to succeed, you need good leadership at the helm. John McLachlan, author and co-founder Monkey Puzzle Training, shares insights on the three core leadership traits that are a must. In the excitement of the early days of a new business, it may not be obvious if the person at the top is actually a good leader or not – even that leader may not know. But for the business t...
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Ensure you are leading your startup in the most effective way thanks to these tips from Karen Meager, co-founder of Monkey Puzzle Training & Consultancy. Of the many components required to make a new business successful, chief among them is good leadership. The major challenges facing modern leaders are the same as they were a decade ago: managing time and dealing with difficult behaviour. ...
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Karen Meager, co-founder of Monkey Puzzle Training shares some insights on how leadership has changed in the last decade, and what it takes to be a great leader today. Anyone launching their first startup should be aware of what will be required of them as a leader of the business. And it may be useful to know that leadership has changed over the last ten or so years.  In 2012, Monkey Puz...
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Raise Ventures on a mission to empower the next generation of business leaders and founders with the launch of their pioneering Emerging Leaders Summer School. Belfast-based Raise Ventures believe that building the right foundations for your business journey is the key to achieving and sustaining success. Business skills alone are not enough. They have an ethos to embed balance, wellbeing ...
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Honing your leadership skills is a must if you're a startup founder. Pamela Odukoya from Toastmasters International shares some tips to help you do just that. As a startup founder you are putting yourself into a leadership role from day one.  What style of leadership will you adopt to set the tone for your new venture?  My leadership career has covered seventeen years to date. I view...
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  Sid Madge, founder of Meee shares his tips on starting as you mean to go on, by getting the very best from your staff in 60 seconds Many startups look at the accepted ways of doing things and find efficiencies and innovations that traditionalists can miss. According to Gallup, 85% of the global workforce is disengaged, and it is estimated that the cost of a disengaged employee could be 34...
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Chris Farmer, leadership and management training expert and founder of Corporate Coach Group, discusses the attributes you should look out for in potential managers and how you can best develop these skills to help your business grow. Within your existing workforce you already have people who possess the potential to become excellent leader-managers and therefore will help to grow the business....
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The lowdown on Temporall, the startup that gives leaders a clear picture of their organisation’s performance! Understanding where your business is and what is going on with your staff has always been important to decision making and planning, but during a time like this, where your workforce is fragmented and with unforeseen and subtle impacts on different parts of your business, it is...
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