Starting a business is one of the most exciting things you can do. It's also one of the most daunting. There's so much that can go right, and so much that can go wrong.That's why you need to understand and minimise the legal and commercial risks involved. When your new business is built on rock, you can relax in the knowledge that you won't lose access to life-changing opportunities or waste time and energy on fighting legal challenges. Instead, you're free to get on with what you do best - coming up with fresh ideas, finding ways to make them a reality, and selling your products or services to an ever- expanding customer base.This book makes the complicated aspects of start-up law simple. In everyday language, it walks you through the key legal and commercial considerations:Setting up your corporate structure for maximum advantageDiscovering your risks and how to minimise themFinding out the best sources of investmentLearning how to value your companyNegotiating with investors for long-term success.
So you have a great idea... but you're not an entrepreneur, right? Wrong! Every entrepreneur started with the same fears, doubts and anxieties that you have right now. The difference between them and you? Nothing more than the next choice you make. Ignite will take you step by step through the process, turning that small spark into a flaming success. This simple, easy-to-read guide will walk you through what may seem today like an impossible journey. From business planning to balancing wellbeing and hectic life schedules, this book breaks down the seemingly impossible journey into small manageable steps that you can cover over a matter of weeks, months or even years. You can use the helpful reflections tool to note your thoughts as you go along so even if you come back to the journey at a later date you can pick up right where you left off!Jo Richardson has over 20 years' experience as a HR professional coaching and mentoring women in business. She has supported female entrepreneurs and small business owners to break through barriers and overcome personal and professional challenges.
"e;The beauty of the ABCDE model and toolkit is that it is simple but not simplistic, it's user-friendly and works in practice."e;Joanne Gubbay, Former Head of Learning and Development, Slaughter and MayLead your team of lawyers to new heights with this tried-and-tested toolkit, based on 25 years' practical experience of getting the best out of lawyers.Leading Lawyers distils 25 years of experience at helping people do just that into one easy-to-read practical toolkit. Based on the successful ABCDE methodology, this guide will help you identify your natural leadership style, identify the various needs and personalities in your team of lawyers, and align everything to become a truly impactful and supportive leader.Packed with real-life inspiring examples, ready-made tools and memorable tips, Leading Lawyers will help you reflect on your own communication preferences, and use what you learn to get different stakeholders and different personalities on board.From scoping the project with a client to reviewing progress and success, from on-boarding a new team member to tackling a stubborn problem, there are examples each step of the way and opportunities to plan how to use the approach in practice, so you can become an even more effective team leader.
The way we value and manage time at work is broken.Businesses are squandering time when making decisions, delivering work and managing people. Employees are rewarded for 24/7 availability, speed of response and hours worked.The results are clear: low productivity; high stress and burnout; falling retention; and stalling diversity.The Future of Time reveals how 're-working' time - transforming organizations by adopting positive time practices - can help you build a more diverse, engaged and productive workforce.Diagnostics to quickly assess the 'time defects' damaging your businessCompelling evidence, case studies and strategies to 're-work' time successfullyTimelines and tools to bring about fast, effective change. www.thefutureoftime.co.uk
Fascinating, funny and thoughtful stories from a distinguished career in international business. Ken Pasternak's adventures - and particularly his misadventures - reveal important truths about leadership and life.
It's Monday morning, 9am. How do you feel?Imagine waking up to start another week. In a perfect world, how would you like to feel? Maybe you imagine feeling motivated and energized. Maybe you imagine starting your week with a sense of purpose, peace and intention.The goal of this book is simple: to help you live with a sense of purpose. Part-manual, part-manifesto, this book is not a quick fix for happiness; it's not a five-day plan promising a fast result. Instead, it's a companion, your personal guide to navigating your own sense of purpose as it evolves throughout your life.Eloise Skinner is an author, therapist and teacher. She's also the founder of The Purpose Workshop, an agency helping clients to navigate their purpose and redesign their lives.Eloise studied at Cambridge, trained at Oxford and practised as a corporate lawyer, but after some soul-searching (including a year training to be a monk!) she followed her passion into psychotherapy.Above all, Eloise is driven by the idea of integration - the power of bringing together all aspects of work and life; to live fully, with intention, integrity and purpose.
It's a tough job, translating strategic direction from the top into results on the ground, especially when the world is changing so fast. Own Your Day gives you simple, powerful tools to help you be more effective every day, and to help you help your team to succeed.
An essential walk-through for businesses that need to create a brand but don't have the budget for an agency.
In a post-truth world, it's more important than ever for scientists and physicians to be heard. Discover how to speak up and be seen - on stage, online, and on camera - so that you can put your message across with confidence and clarity in every situation.
A brand is more than a snazzy logo - but what else is there to consider when building a brand? Do you really need a brand for business success? And what has intellectual property got to do with anything?A strong, authentic brand is what makes your business stand out from the crowd - and what drives long term success. But the branding industry can be an overwhelming minefield, full of conflicting advice and multiple disciplines - so how do you navigate your way through the process? That's where Brand Tuned comes in. With the step-by-step TUNED methodology, you will:* define your brand to drive the business forward and help it stand out* know what brand promise will attract your ideal client* pick a name that will put you "e;front of mind"e;* ensure that the design elements you choose are distinctive and 'ownable'* train your team to live the brand.Drawing from evidence-based research, interviews with experts, and years of experience supporting businesses, Brand Tuned is the first branding guide written by an intellectual property lawyer who specialises in trademarks and brands. By incorporating the principles of intellectual property law right from the start of the process, branding expert Shireen Smith will show you how to create and build the brand that is right for you and your business - while avoiding the potential pitfalls.
The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent. The criminal and sexual exploitation of children, FGM, radicalisation and online safety are sadly all now part of the remit, as are self-harm and mental health issues. And these safeguarding challenges are found not only in urban communities, but also in leafy suburbs and rural idylls throughout the UK. The responsibility on safeguarding leads in schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts is huge, and Covid-19 (and its inevitable after-effects) has only added to the complexity.This book sets out how you can transform your safeguarding arrangements, with a strategic framework that will help you and your governing body or MAT board to develop and implement outstanding practice across your whole organisation. It is based on an 8-point strategic safeguarding model that will enable you to anticipate potential problems, deal with concerns more effectively, and build a robust safeguarding culture that is underpinned by a strong network of support, both internally and externally. Ultimately, this approach will support safeguarding leads in their vital role of protecting children; enable senior leaders, governors and trustees to provide appropriate leadership and support for safeguarding; help to improve the effectiveness of multi-agency working; and support educators in their vital work of preparing learners for life.
The Golden Thread is a blueprint for authentic organizational culture: what it is, what it isn't, why it matters, and how to build it.If you are passionate about creating an environment where people thrive, you'll understand the value of real engagement and values alignment. But how do you make it happen? Consciously or not, company culture runs like a golden thread through any organization, and where it is not thoughtfully nurtured it unravels - leaving a toxic environment filled with bureaucracy, politics and poor mental health.The Golden Thread guides business leaders through this concept - exploring cultural diagnostics and revealing what they really mean. This book will show you how to design and develop your own target culture, one that is right for your people and business. It then takes you step by step through the employee lifecycle, helping you to weave your new cultural and values through everything to build a happy, healthy, high performing organization.Leanne Hamley is an experienced leader and business coach specializing in behavioural change, leadership development and organizational culture.
***Selected as one of the Financial Times's Best Business Books of 2020***An exploration of our obsession with winning across society (sport, business, education, politics) and a new approach to defining success to fit the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century - The Long Win.
There's a new truth in B2B marketing: if you want to move products, you need to move people. To achieve transformational growth, you need to break free from features-led marketing and discover the power of story.
"e;Health care professionals and those who take care of others should read this outstanding book!"e; - Dr. Richard Gillett, psychiatrist and bestselling author of It's a Freakin' Mess"e;I cannot recommend this book highly enough."e; - Dr. Sarah Eagger, consultant psychiatrist and co-author of Stillness in the StormHow to balance your own self-care with the needs of others As a helping professional, caregiver, or someone who puts others first, it is so easy to ignore your own needs. Becoming physically run-down, emotionally burned-out, and spiritually depleted can result in frustration and anxiety - even disillusionment.Sarah Kuipers knows this all too well. She ran a successful health practice for over 20 years. The combined pressure of work and bringing up three boys as a single parent finally led to debilitating burnout.Sarah was curious about why so many people, including health professionals, fail to manage stress and practice self-care. She completed a Masters in Research on stress and burnout, and now teaches stress management to medical students.Caring for others starts with caring for yourselfThis timely and practical book encourages you to create a life in which you thrive. Only then can you give your best to the world each day.The Thriving Giver helps you create a personalised toolkit of self-care skills and practical resources to:Reduce stress and calm anxietyPrevent work stress leaching into home lifeReplenish energyRelease emotional distress to shift your mindset Reignite enthusiasm for workThis user-friendly book offers:Simple, doable steps Short chapters with anecdotes to explain key conceptsSignposts so you can cherry-pick the chapters you needBegin reading The Thriving Giver, and in just a few minutes a day you will learn effective new ways to nurture your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. When you thrive, your giving is sustainable.
In organizations, it's a miracle our conversations get us anywhere at all - we are constantly distracted by goals, consumed by the draw of emails, multi-tasking in everything that we do. We rush from meeting to meeting, from call to call. We don't take breaks and we work on the move. Even our downtime is stimulated - videos, social media, noise.We spend about 80% of our day involved in communicating and at least half of that should be listening and yet only 2% of people have ever had any formal training in how to listen.This book supports leaders by showing them how to cut through the noise and listen expertly. It is a constructive toolkit for raising the game in communication with strategies, tools and techniques to implement with confidence. Discover:* How to find out how people are feeling.* How to set up different modalities of listening in your business.* How to determine what kind of listener you want to be.* How to implement practical tools - using short, medium and longer-term strategies.* How to help others listen to you more fully.In a world of remote working, where we need to acknowledge different and minority voices, and where leaders are juggling uncertainty with so many challenges to solve, expertise in listening and communicating in a way that supports listening are more important than ever. The Listening Shift provides the tools you need to create a listening environment where colleagues feel heard and acknowledged, and yet they understand clearly how to move forward.
Is your senior leadership team fully aligned and ready for fast-paced change?Even the most cohesive teams can find themselves derailed by the uncertainty of change. High workloads increase stress, changing priorities cause confusion and the frustration of unresolved differences of opinion creates tension and division in teams. Join thousands of leaders and teams who have already benefitted from revealing the hidden dynamics of their non-verbal behaviour and discover how you too can use it to align your team, reduce stress, increase understanding and resolve differences of opinion with more trust and transparency so your team: Is full of vitality and vigour, excited about possibilitiesHas clear objectives, pulling seamlessly together in one directionKnows exactly what to think, say and do to get the best from each otherDrawing on a decade of Equine Facilitated Leadership to fine-tune the skills of leaders and teams, Opus reveals the 12 hidden dynamics that every team needs to make visible to achieve optimal team performance"e;Unambiguously brilliant."e; Adrian Packer CBE, CEO, Core Education Trust"e;Opus could seriously result in a significant improvement in both relationships and performance, for you and your teams."e; Gina Lodge, CEO, The Academy of Executive Coaching
What does it really take to succeed in business in the developing world? One man's remarkable journey from a rural Nigerian village to a top job in a global corporation reveals the challenges, the opportunities and the issues we must all face up to if we're to create positive organizational and societal impact, equality and equity in global business. Babs Omotowa has spent his life rejecting the status quo. His own career disproves the unthinking perception that Africans underperform in global businesses, and his insistence that bigger societal issues such as community development, corruption, transparency and pollution belong on the corporate agenda alongside market and production target has revolutionized big business's approach to the developing world. From government agency blockades due to his refusal to pay an illegal levy, to the fallout from his resistance to paying $2bn to fund elections, to bringing transparency to oil spills and revenues to government, to creating strategic master-planning for community development and to taking tough stance to address corruption issues, his story exposes the challenges of big businesses in developing countries and reveals a better way for multinational companies to navigate these challenges: with integrity and courage.
This is a practical guide for managers in Service Operations to help them to improve the performance of their operation by using the Active Operations Management (AOM) method, developed by the authors.AOM is a unique blend of the human and technical sides of performance improvement. On the one hand it offers a practical guide to planning and managing workers time in order to optimize the delivery of targets for cost, quality and service. On the other hand it provides insight into human motivation and behaviour that are critical to delivering performance improvement changes that will last.This is a practical 'how to' book rather than a theoretical tome, aimed at demystifying management theory, debunking unhelpful jargon and helping managers apply techniques directly to their own working environment.In a complex and rapidly changing world, the last thing managers need is internal complexity in the way they manage the delivery of service to customers. Simplifying the management of operations is essential if organizations are to be agile enough to adapt, survive and thrive in the modern economy.
Project Future is a structured framework to help aspiring entrepreneurs, freelancers and contractors plan for success. Discover a lightweight, practical, project-management based approach to evaluating options and moving forwards to a remarkable future.
When you become the final decision maker, everything changesWe all know that it's tough at the top. But nothing, nothing can quite prepare you for becoming CEO.Philip Levinson has experienced that "e;What now?"e; moment as a rookie CEO. In Three Peaks Leadership, he shares the challenges he's faced and the lessons he's learned to help aspiring and new leaders prepare for life as a CEO. The book charts a typical CEO journey, starting in the foothills, looking ahead to the role and how you can prepare for it, before scaling the three peaks:* the first 100 days in role* running the business, and* preparing your company and yourself for your exit.It's an expedition that needs the right preparation, mindset and approach, not to mention stamina, resilience and support.Three Peaks Leadership offers a unique route map for that journey. It's a hands-on guide, a framework of strategies, tools and techniques that will inform the rest of your career.Whether you're in the foothills or already scaling your first CEO summit, Three Peaks Leadership will show you the way.
Leaders are under increasing pressure to ensure their businesses are gender-balanced and inclusive, and eliminate the gender pay gap for the benefit of the economy and society.But how? And what does that mean for YOUR business?This pioneering book is a route map to help leaders get started and navigate the way to leading a high-performing gender-balanced business. It features:An easy-to-follow ten-step guide with practical advice and solutions:Case studies to illustrate how businesses like yours have implemented winning ideasA compelling 5-minute pitch to inspire your team to take action.Fixing the gender gap is a key indicator of an effective leader in the 21st century, and gender balance is essential to enable transformational business growth. Audience: Business schools often use automotive case studies and are increasingly interested in diversity and inclusion, and so this book makes ideal recommended reading for MBA and Business Management courses. The Centre of Automotive Management at Loughborough University School of Business and Economics, Warwick University and Coventry University have strong automotive connections, for example. In addition the book would suit the Institute of the Motor Industry Automotive Management Level 5 course.
'Lead Beyond The Edge' inspires and equips you to lead extraordinarily at work and at home. Its distinctive scientific leadership framework enables leaders like you to act in spite of fear and provides you with the mind strategies you need to overcome any challenges. Accomplish anything, anytime, anywhere!
What if struggle isn't a battle to fight, a trap to avoid, or a sign of weakness, but precisely where the magic happens - where we do our best, most important work?
Managing people doesn't have to be Mission Impossible. With the right mindset and the right skillset, it can be richly rewarding for both you and the business you work in. Mission: To Manage will develop both, and help you become the leader your team want to follow.
Every leader cares about inclusivity, wellbeing and performance. For technical organizations these issues are especially acute: in the least diverse sectors, with every-increasing issues around mental health and resilience, companies need to realize continuous gains in performance and productivity to stay ahead,or even just to stay in the game,in a fiercely competitive space. How can leaders square the circle?This book will show you how to build a Strengths-Based Organization: an organization which is based on the scientific understanding of what helps individuals to flourish and organizations to reap the benefits.
A step-by-step playbook of EXACTLY how to deliver successful transformations and large-scale change programs with the best chance of success.
Transform your life, work and organization with a 6-point philosophy of work to inspire yourself and your people from the inside out.
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