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The most important lessons that I have learned in life and business have come from facing really tough challenges or making mistakes. Mistakes are a lesson in wisdom, part of life’s rich [...]

Planning to redesign your business operating model to align to a new strategy? Maybe it’s a digital strategy that will change how customers will do business with you and therefore how your [...]

“HR needs to be less plonky (take itself less seriously) and be more creative to engage more people” – Adam Ferrier. 

The organisational development and change management sector is strewn with different models and each has their own strengths and weaknesses – but here at The Change Directors we know that one [...]

Culture is important when you are implementing a new strategy. Before you begin implementing your new plans it pays to review your current culture and how it needs to change to create a high [...]

Last week we started the debate about EQ, Click here to read Part 1 if you missed this. The EQ aspirin Time is often wasted on unresolved conflict with negative emotional responses serving little [...]

It should be one of the hottest topics in 2016! The key to successful interactions with people – relationships, if you like – can be simply described with the following metaphor.

I’ve been reading a book recently by Marty Newman called Emotional Capitalists. It’s a good read and in it he suggests that Optimism is perhaps the number one quality that will help you develop [...]

When I first started work, the tea trolley delivered hot tea and snacks right to your desk, twice a day.  Its arrival around 10.15am was preceded by a cry from its driver, Ethel, ‘I’ve mashed’.  [...]

I have been working recently on pulling together a brilliant new people strategy for a really exciting company. I worked with a wonderfully talented HR professional and she very kindly posted a [...]