Resilience as a Strategy Recently, many people have been talking about how resilient they need to be as they cope with the stresses and strains of current events, marketplace issues, competitive activity and getting the best out of our time in the workplace and coping with attacks on our society. When questioned how we define […]
The Importance of Ethical Leadership Over recent months, we have been watching news about British Home Stores, Toyota, Rolls Royce, BT, Samsung, Toshiba, Toyota and a range of other companies asking ourselves where have the ethically-driven business leaders gone? Ethical leadership can be described as your demonstration of regular and appropriate conduct through your […]
Capt. Dhaffer Al Abbasi, Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Aviation Academy and Mr. Jean Nicolai, Founder & President of Stepping Stone Global sign a Memorandum of Understanding to start further collaborations of courses and training programs between the two entities
The Executive Management of the Gulf Petrochemical Industries (GPIC) held a meeting on its leadership development programme with the founder president of SteppingStone Global, Jean Nicolai. The meeting was presided over by the GPIC President Dr Abdulrahman Jawahery, GPIC Youth Chairperson, Ruqayah Ishaq and GPIC Human resources Manager, Yousef Fakhroo
MANAMA: Bahrain-based SteppingStone Global, a consulting, coaching and training provider, has expanded to include a more diversified and multinational team that provides a wide scope of consulting services for the region. This team is represented by international practitioners with more than 200 years of experience in business and industry. “Our more diversified experience profile will […]
To thrive and compete in today’s challenging business environment we have to embrace constant transformation. Bahrain needs to constantly upgrade the quality and international reputation of its businesses to be competitive and profitable in today’s globalized economy. SteppingStone Global has recently expanded to include a more diversified and multinational team that provides a wide scope […]
Becoming a skillful communicator is rarely taught. Ask most people what the key is to a healthy relationship and their answer will almost certainly be ‘communication’. Nothing hurts a company more than the disconnect between seniors and their subordinates. From our earliest days we learn to focus on enunciation, vocabulary, presence, delivery, grammar, syntax – […]
Technology and shifting demographics are changing the way we live, work and how enterprises operate across the globe. Within a continuously evolving, changing and transforming landscape, customers and consumers are increasingly expecting flexibility, high quality and a more personalised experience. These pressures are driving enterprises to deliver greater value each time consumers interact with them.
The world is filled with disengaged employees leading to small businesses, medium-sized enterprises and corporations struggling to come up with solutions. As a supplier or customer, you just know when a business is destined for success or when you feel passion from employees who are on a shared mission to an agreed vision. You can […]
MANAMA: A Special Interest Group (SIG) for Young Professionals has been launched by the Bahrain British Business Forum (BBBF). More than 80 forum members and their guests attended the event at The Domain Hotel and Spa, which was conducted in a Speed Business Networking format, managed and conducted by SteppingStone Global on behalf of the […]
An approach where employees, supplier and customers comne before shareholders and owners ensures an enterprise is seen to be run by leader with integrity, credibility and consistency
Maximising Incremental and Revolutionary Changes Recently I was working with a business owner who wanted to revolutionise his service and product offering. Listening to him, I was reminded of the need to often slow change-processes down. We discussed listening to his customers and employees and examining incremental shifts rather than attempt focusing only on major, […]