Maximum Performance

The last two years have been a period of concentrated change for businesses. Primarily driven by the pandemic, we have changed the way we work...

It might feel that the last two years have pushed creativity and innovation to their limits just to keep going: ‘business as unusual’. Arguably...

What’s your role as a manager? The cheeky (and fairly useless) one-word answer would be: to manage. But what does that mean? We can add some more...

The most common reason for leaving a job is dissatisfaction with the manager. If you’re a manager, what kind of manager are you? The kind who...

Have you noticed that people seem to have stopped talking about the ‘new normal’? In early 2020, as we all hunkered down to get through the...

Good management skills are never a nice-to-have. In pretty much any organisation of whatever size, the quality of the management has a direct...

The old joke about time and space is that you put them together and you have a continuum (I never said it was a funny joke!) But combined they can...

As we come out of the COVID pandemic (or continue to slog through it with no end in sight, depending on your perspective) remote and hybrid...

Do you present with confidence? Or maybe you’re faced with the peculiar and specific anxiety of your first presentation? Whatever your level of...

Arguably, all feedback is motivational. No? Let’s try again. All feedback is intended to be motivational. What is it they say about the ‘road to...

The well-known quotation from Mark Twain reads, “The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to...

According to a BBC survey, 86% of the UK’s biggest employers are not planning on returning to full-time office working. A similar O2 survey found...