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Blog: Leading with Insight

Henry Herbert, Hobbs House Bakery And Jo Draper, Quolux, At Realising Good Growth Book Launch At The University Of Gloucestershire May 2026

How to Draw up a Business Plan for Good Growth - In a Weekend

Two-thirds of UK firms don’t have a business plan, which might lead many to think if they’re doing fine, why bother? Imagine how much better they could do if they knew where they’re going.…

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Leadlight Cohort 12 Graduation

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.…

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Stewart Barnes And Steve Kempster

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…

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5 Signs You've Outgrown Your Leadership Blog. May 2026

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 …

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The Empty Boardroom Of The Review That Never Happened

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.…

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Cohort 11 Leadlight Graduation Photo With Panel Oct 2025

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 …

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Employee Engagement Blog John Oliver

Engagement: Lessons from History

Fact One: The business world is now very familiar with the benefits of an holistic approach to Employee Engagement thanks mainly to the MacLeod Report released a decade or so a go. Fact Two: The benefits of this holistic approach to employee engagement are now accepted to be transformational, if properly applied. Fact Three: UK adoption has been been very poor across all sectors of the working population whether public or private, big or small.…

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You're Not An Imposter Blog

You're Not an Imposter. You're Just Growing.

Ninety-one percent. That's the proportion of business leaders who tell us they have suffered from imposter syndrome before starting LEAD™. These aren't junior managers finding their feet, they're CEOs, Managing Directors, Managing Partners and owner-managers who built their companies from nothing. People who, by any reasonable measure, have already proved they can do the job, and yet privately, they sometimes feel like they're waiting to be found out.…

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