Newsletters: 2015

Developing leadership abilities – Part 1
Issue 095 – December 2015
Also featuring:
- How business mentoring put a marketing services agency back on track
- Ten strategies for business new year planning
- Networking and relationships leading to success
- Renegotiating a joint venture – case study
- The Lean CEO: Leading the Way to World-Class Excellence – book review

Working with difficult people – Part 4
Issue 094 – November 2015
Also featuring:
- Getting results from your one-to-ones
- 14 leadership principles
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Delivering bottom-line savings through strategic sourcing – case study
- Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation – book review

Working with difficult people – Part 3
Issue 093 – October 2015
Also featuring:
- One-to-ones: coaching and mentoring your direct reports
- The CEO – back to basics
- Procurement: dealing with large suppliers
- Executive coaching gets a marketing services agency back on track – case study
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World – book review

Working with difficult people – Part 2
Issue 092 - September 2015
Also featuring:
- 20 leadership habits that hold you back
- Five fundamentals of employee motivation
- Networking: why it matters for those in larger companies too
- Pulling it all together – case study
- Work Rules! Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead – book review

Working with difficult people – Part 1
Issue 091 – August 2015
Also featuring:
- How establishing a supply chain function got a company’s stock under control
- How to identify your critical success factors
- The organisation of a restructuring
- Doubling the profits and getting back in control – case study
- Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiations Transformed the World’s Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts – book review

Strategy implementation critical success factors – Part 2
Issue: 090 – July 2015
Also featuring:
- Aligning your organisation for growth – Part 2
- Leadership by storytelling
- The family-friendly workplace
- Product repositioning justifies price differential – case study
- Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces – book review

Strategy implementation critical success factors – Part 1
Issue: 089 – June 2015
Also featuring:
- Aligning your organisation for growth – Part 1
- Ten techniques for agile resource allocation
- Confidentiality agreements – ten top FAQs
- A fresh approach helps a top 30 UK law firm increase PEP by 30% – case study
- 21 Ideas for Managers: Practical Wisdom for Managing Your Company and Yourself – book review

Preparing for your 360 degree feedback
Issue 088 – May 2015
Also featuring:
- The dos and don’ts of exiting a business
- War games – creating strategic advantage
- Ten top tips for better procurement
- Selling a technology solution to competing clients demanding exclusivity – case study
- Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow – book review

360 degree assessment
Issue 087 – April 2015
Also featuring:
- How improved CRM boosted a company’s profits
- Top tips to achieve a high-performance culture
- What causes organisations to suffer crises?
- A clean sweep to sustainable, profitable growth – case study
- Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market – and How to Successfully Transform Them – book review

How to identify and survive strategic threats
Issue 086 – March 2015
Also featuring:
- How to stay focused on the CEO roles
- Eye contact
- Better lives, better organisations, better world
- Foreign direct investment into Poland by a British international company – case study
- Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age – book review

Managing threats in strategic planning
Issue 085 – February 2015
Also featuring:
- Benchmarking
- Why do strategic plans fail?
- Unlocking maximum value using supply chain design technology
- External control stops in-fighting in a family-run business – case study
- The Halo Effect … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers – book review

Communicating strategy in your organisation
Issue 084 – January 2015
Also featuring:
- Ten ways to boost execution
- Eight things never to do at a company conference
- Silos – and why they are unhelpful
- Rapid and profitable growth for a young accountancy business – case study
- The Future of Management – book review