Positively transform and drive sustainable improvements in performance and results
Covering a wide range of topics including inspirational leadership, enabling positive change, tackling team dysfunction (these are just some examples – there are many more!), the insights we share shine a light on those hidden barriers and opportunities, to help start you and your business on the road to change… or even transformation…
Too many “Leaders”, not enough Leadership?
If the principal responsibility of a leader in any organisation is: “To motivate every single employee to take action and be fully engaged with a compelling mission and vision. They have the ability to deliver objectives and outcomes, build trusting relationships and overcome adversity and resistance. They also create an “unstoppable” culture of clear accountability, a great one team spirit
One leadership question that will lead to explosive business growth
There is just one question you need to ask to help you understand why your business is not growing or improving like it should. It’s a ‘killer question’ … one Sewells has used for most of the 57 years that we’ve been helping businesses successfully transform performance and bottom line results. Once we’ve got the answer to that killer question,
Overcoming your team’s resistance to change
Getting your teams to willingly adapt to change in any organisation is hard. Leaders often assume that people will just change just because they say so. The one quality that people in any team want their leaders to demonstrate in times of change is a ‘genuine care for them and their team matters’, no matter how bad the situation, even redundancy. Amazing,
Your teams can change without growing, but they can’t grow without changing
In business, resisting change is like holding your breath – if you do it for too long you’ll die! The need to up the pace of business today has never been more important and people and teams in an organisation must evolve and change in order to grow profitable sales, increase market share, stay ahead of the competition and amaze
Will your teams lift off your business in 2022?
After the last few years of keeping our heads above water in these difficult and stressful times, organisations across all industries have resigned themselves to just ‘grinding out’ decent results in such a challenging environment. Key players and key teams in companies have become ‘battle weary’ from putting in their best efforts to achieve their objectives. Leaders have been focusing
What great teams do … that make them great
The theme for our blog in September is Developing Winning Teams ….. So, what is it that individuals in a great team do that makes the difference? How do they out-perform other teams on a consistent basis and achieve spectacular results? We know it’s a combination of many factors, including self-belief, discipline, motivation, determination, attitude and resilience, but one simple
Moving from a culture of ‘survival’ to one of ‘growth and sustainability’
What is the new ‘formula’ for a high-performance culture? Our clients tell us that our competitors are dumbfounded. They don’t understand how we managed to produce staggering performance improvements for our clients during the pandemic and even more so now that many of the restrictions are being lifted. These competitors cover similar specialisms as we do – such as leadership,
Don’t give me any of that “namby-pamby”, “pink and fluffy” culture stuff …
Every organisation with more than three people in it has got a culture. The culture can be anything from positive, constructive and unstoppable to negative, destructive and horrendous. All the work we, at Sewells, have done over the years generally and since the pandemic started in particular shows that, providing the business model works, the fastest way to: –
What can be learned from a mouse with big ears?
What can be learned from a mouse with big ears? … quite a lot about business – and how to be successful in tough times. The theme for our weekly inspirational emails in August is ‘Creating Positive Cultures’. At Sewells, we love this story and we felt it was a great way to kick off this series. People go back to