Can ‘good’ work cause wellbeing?
I went along to a fabulous conference earlier this year, "Building Resilience and Wellbeing for Growth". Organised by D2N2, there were around thirty exhibitors, the hall was packed, and the administration was first-class. The presentations were excellent and...
My Internship with Lose the Box
My name is Oyinkansola Adebayo. I am a penultimate year student at Nottingham Trent University studying Business Management and Economics. I have just had a yearlong internship as a project management placement student at Rolls-Royce and am now currently on an 8-week...
What can the Institute of Leadership and Management do for you?
Business Improvement through leadership As some of you will know from my blogs and workshops, my business support approach is primarily about people – supporting leaders and teams with new skills and behaviours to cope with change. However, I’m also an advocate of...
Leaving the corporate job to startup my business: Part 2
Part 1 of this blog summarises my early personal and business learning about moving from a corporate day job to startup my own small business. Part 2 discusses how my corporate skills have both helped and challenged me to identify, plan and run my business startup. ...
Leaving the corporate job to startup my business: Part 1 (edited April ’18)
Part 1 of this blog summarises my early personal and business learning about moving from a corporate day job to startup my own small business. Part 2 discusses how my corporate skills have both helped and challenged me to identify, plan and run my business startup. ...
How to use a project charter to plan for change
As a business leader, owner or entrepreneur, are you planning to review and change your business services or products? If so, read on for top tips on how a project charter can help you plan your changes. Do your business services or products require updating? Is your...
Time for a business health check?
February: the window of opportunity. Just one month into 2018, and my initial euphoria about my resolutions and new beginnings has quietened. I'm settling back into a type of normality. Tax return filed, gym sessions back to a sustainable level, I know that February...
Video blog: using simple tools to deal with conflict
Why do projects fail? What are the main reasons for projects delivering less improvement than expected, for delays, or even for failing to deliver at all? Why are there so many reports that change, whether public sector or private sector, is not managed...
Happy birthday Lose the Box!
It's our birthday! Two years this month since I started Lose the Box, Nottingham Management! I'm still juggling it with a day job which is emotionally and physically draining at times. However I do it because I'm passionate about stepping out of my relatively safe...
Lean or Agile in large service organisations?
Lean or Agile in large service organisations? Business Improvement consultants work in increasingly complex environments. The recently coined term – VUCA - really does spell it out. Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. So, I can totally understand that change...
Why measure current business performance levels?
Why measure current business performance levels? In this post, I’m discussing the importance of understanding and measuring current business performance levels. As a business leader faced with a situation that requires substantial improvement, it's easy to jump...
Managing conflict in community organisations
Managing Conflict workshop In March 2017, Community Organisers UK were appointed by the Civil Society to recruit and train 3,500 people in community organising. Working with Sneinton Alchemy, Nottingham, I designed and co-facilitated a workshop on managing conflict at...
