Developing the Middle Leaders who Make Businesses Work
We are delighted to congratulate the graduates of LEADlight Cohort 12 - nine managers from businesses across Gloucestershire who have completed their six-month leadership development programme.…
Blog: Leading with Insight
A Book Launch, a Big Question and a Different Kind of Growth
On Monday evening, we welcomed guests to Oxstalls Campus at the University of Gloucestershire to mark the launch of Realising Good Growth: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders - the new…
Five Tips for Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
How 360 feedback helps leaders grow - and how you can use it in your organisation. Knowing how you come across as a leader is one of the most valuable things you can learn - and one of the…
Five Signs You've Outgrown Your Own Leadership
The business hasn't stopped growing. But it's definitely slowed and you can't quite put your finger on why. The market is there, the team is decent, the product still works. But the momentum that used to feel effortless now feels forced and the growth that used to happen …
The Review Every Leader Skips
As the new financial year gets underway, thousands of SMB leaders across Britain will sit down with their accountants and go through the numbers. Revenue, costs, margins, tax liability. They'll look at what the business did this year and start thinking about what it needs to do next. They'll scrutinise every line on the P&L.…
Good Growth, Good Business - What Earth Day Means to Us
Every year, Earth Day prompts a global conversation about the kind of world we're building. For businesses, that conversation is becoming harder to sidestep - and for those of us who believe that business can and should be a force for good …
"I Thought It Would Be About Business. It Was About Me."
The title of this blog isn't something we wrote. It's a direct quote from a LEAD™ graduate, and it's one we hear, in different forms, from almost every cohort: the delegates join largely expecting business development but they leave with something bigger. "I Wasn't Alone. Other Business Owners Felt Exactly Like I Did." This is the one that comes up first, almost always during the Overnight Experiential. The moment when a room full of accomplished, successful business leaders …
What Happens on LEAD™
People ask us this all the time. They've read the statistics. They've seen the testimonials. They know the programme runs for ten months. But what they actually want to know is: what happens in the room? It's a fair question, and surprisingly hard to answer because LEAD™ isn't a course with a fixed syllabus. It's a leadership and business development programme for senior leaders and it adapts to the people in it. No two cohorts are the same.…