There is constant pressure to innovate and position products and services more creatively than ever before. Innovation and creativity are more likely to happen when employees are happy. Employees will not be happy if they have heightened states of on-going daily anxiety where they expect something awful to happen at any moment. Worse is when […]
Communicating Respect In every culture respect is important, and it invariably means different things to different people. We live and work where cross-cultural communication is nuanced and adds a layer of unnecessary complexity. Given we accept people will work smarter and harder with us if we respect them, we ought to try harder to be […]
Accountability Moves Mountains When talking with a finance director of a major UK-based retailer it was clear her major frustrations were: people not taking responsibility; senior managers and key employees ignoring ownership; and individuals avoiding accountability. Facing tough business conditions, she was seeing an increase in blame-culture and the number of excuses playing a part […]
Why Doing Good Makes More Business Sense There has been an on-going debate about the purpose of business. Some define this purpose as delivering profits and positive cash flow, building shareholder-value. What customer is going to give you money if you ask them to spend just so their funds can enrich your shareholders? Your customers […]
Integrity, Credibility and Consistency Leading with integrity is a fundamental aspect of building credibility. A leader’s credibility is vital to creating an environment which delivers consistent collective results. In this trusting environment people within the enterprise will be enthused, energized and empowered because their work-lives are enriched. The World Economic Forum tells us 86 per […]
Decision-Dilemma A tough problem faced decision-makers where there seemed to be no ‘best-answer’ when I found myself recently consulting with the C-Suite of an enterprise. This organisation is a stock-market quoted firm owned by shareholders rather than being a family-owned business. The dilemma faced by the C-Suite was whether decisions should be made to benefit […]
Managing Diversity is an Enterprise Competence Diversity needs to be an integral part of business-planning, essential to successful projects, programmes, services and product-development, increasing brand-value, driving sales, controlling costs and improving profits and cash flow. How diversity is handled will make an amazing difference to how employees react to leadership. If employees are reacting more […]
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awards and conferences are big business. Abu Dhabi has been hosting an annual event for years, as has Bahrain. Winners of these awards are a who’s who of the biggest companies across the GCC. From construction corporations, oil and gas companies, telecoms businesses and financial services organizations, many have been awarded […]
Must World WLL with its factory Mentors located in Dhaka, Bangladesh followed a Two- day Mentor Training conducted by SSG Facilitator Jean nicolai in July 2017
More than 50 people took part in a networking event to sharpen and expand their networking skills. The Bahrain British Business Forum (BBBF) in partnership with SteppingStone Global (SSG), a consulting, coaching and training organisation, held its second speed networking event at the Movenpick Hotel, Bahrain. The event was led by SSG founder and president Jean […]