Strategy and Tactics
November 23, 2021
Strategy and tactics - two critical elements of executing your plan and being a successful business. The great news is that one feeds into the other, they do and should relate to each other.
The strategy is your true north - the vision you, your leadership team and possibly ...
Control What You Can
September 29, 2021
The last two years have shown us all that the world, let alone the business environment is not a predictable place. This has always been the case but now it seems magnified to the extremes.
Owning and operating a business is hard enough, let alone in such an environmen...
What can Lego® Serious Play® be used for?
May 7, 2021
Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) enables individuals and teams to explore topics deeper and faster than many other methodologies. I went into some of the theory of how LSP works in a previous blog post.
So we know it works and why. But what type of scenarios or situat...
How Does LEGO Serious Play Work?
April 20, 2021
The simple answer to this question is easy. The process of a basic LEGO Serious Play (LSP) workshop follows the same pattern. A group is first asked an open ended question by a trained facilitator. Then each person responds by building a model that represents th...
The 3 questions you need to ask yourself about employee engagement.
February 22, 2021
I mention it a lot, talk about it and refer to it many times when I write about Business Improvement, implementing Lean programmes and Lego Serious Play. What is ‘it' - staff engagement.
It dominates the conversation many times because simply it is the make or break ...
How to start your ideas in 2021
January 14, 2021
You have just come back from a great break. You really did earn this one - last year really did take its toll on you. But that was so last year, now you are really looking forward to the opportunities you have. The enthusiasm is high, your picture of the en...
Lego Serious Play - Case Study #2
December 2, 2020
A local government agency.Being a new internal service, the manager identified the team was still building an identity for themselves. It had been a few months into delivering the new service, but they had yet to spend time to create a common goal, a defined purpose that bro...
Leading for change is hard
November 20, 2020
Why do many small and medium businesses (SMEs) fail when they try and change something or begin something new? Where do they go wrong when they want to bring something such as Lean Thinking into the business?
In my space as a consultant I see and hear these stories all...
Lego Serious Play - A Case Study
September 18, 2020
How do you get a bunch of Electricians interested in strategic conversations? That was the challenge put to me by an owner of a local electrician business. The business has a good reputation and has been growing from strength to strength. However the owner recognised t...
So you have set the direction, now what?
May 13, 2020
If you are like me, you are sitting there, champing at the bit to get on with it. You have just set your plan, you know what the goals are and you are getting pretty excited about it all. The clarity is there, now let’s get out there and do it!
Stop.
It is one ...
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