We regularly produce articles on subjects that we feel will interest our clients and potential customers. It is our way of both offering you something genuinely useful, a core value of our business, and a way of you getting to understand more about our style and how we think.
Below is a selection of articles we have produced in the past. More will be added from time to time.
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Our distinctive approach
19/06/09
We believe that we differ from our competitors in five specific areas. Namely:
o Our depth of experience
o Our enthusiasm and energy
o A bespoke approach
o Our rigour
o Our strong business focus
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How to write knockout presentations
18/05/09
We have all heard the oft repeated adage that in preparing effective presentations we need to think about: telling them what we are going to tell them, telling them and telling them what we have told them. This is good practical advice, but this must not be at the cost of making your presentation overly laboured and pedantic. After all, whatever else a presentation sets out to do, it must entertain and engage.
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SAVE MONEY, STOP TRAINING
20/04/09
Delivering superior business results through strategic development
Let us be as provocative as we can: In the current economic climate, you must stop training your best people. Most of us by now must surely have realised that training is an expensive and ineffective tool for the development of key populations. What this article is fundamentally about then is how to stop training and start developing. Trust us, it makes real business and financial sense.
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Probably the best free business leadership resource on the web
07/09/09
Have you discovered www.personalbusinesscoach.co.uk yet? It is quite simply one of the best free business leadership resource banks on the web and more great material is being added all the time. Knowing that, now more than ever, business leaders need to keep up to date and constantly develop their knowledge and skills, we have created this free site with the busy business executive in mind.
At the click of a mouse you can find articles on leadership, change management, surviving business politics and strategy development.
As for those business books that you know you should have read, you will find many of them summarised here; summaries that contain all the essential points and which can be read in fifteen minutes or less.
Add to this a range of strategic business and self development tools, blog articles on topics as wide ranging as presentation skills and organisational change, useful links to sites on subjects as diverse as conflict resolution and outsourcing, and you know you have an unrivalled resource that many executive find themselves referring to again and again.
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Strategic Development: delivering superior returns
24/02/09
We have been asked to speak to three companies in three weeks on the subject of strategic development. It may be too early to describe this as a trend, but we do find it both interesting and instructive.
All three organisations stated in their various ways that they have in the past taken a rather shotgun approach to investing in learning and growth, and that, given the current challenging economic climate, they could no longer justify this haphazard spend.
Interestingly, none of these organisations were looking to reduce their investment. Rather, they were calling on us to help in moving towards a strategic development perspective. They insisted that their learning and development spend must become directly linked to achieving the long term goal of the organisation: providing superior returns based on the capital invested.
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Thriving in Challenging Times
19/01/09
Inspire Ltd is experienced in helping organisations move from investment in learning and development to strategic development. Through the series of articles that will be published on our website in the coming months, we will explain to you in detail how this is done.
The principles behind what is set out in these articles, and indeed all the work that Inspire Ltd does with organisations, are simple: Identify the people resources and capabilities you require to deliver your organisations vision, then invest in turning these people into a cadre of key individuals and teams who are capable of being the engine of the desired growth.
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Power Delegating
25/11/08
The advantages that accrue from effective delegation are numerous. The most obvious benefit being that of releasing time and allowing you to feel that you can at last get your head above the waters. It gives you back the time you need to think strategically and adopt the necessary broad, long term perspective. A critical facet of leadership is this ability take time out to stop and think, reflect, review and analyse, an activity which those who can not delegate, rarely find sufficient quality time to do properly.
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The power of attraction
26/09/08
It is our belief that the organisations that will be most successful in the coming years, those that will thrive through the current period of economic uncertainty and generate superior returns for their stakeholders, will also be vibrant, playful, energetic and fun places to be. They will be characterised by a spirit of creativity, inspiration, self belief and optimism that breathes life into the organisation and, most importantly, the people within it.
The protestant work ethic that arguably provided the backbone to businesses that thrived in the 19th and 20th centuries is, in this new century, more likely to be what stands in the way outstanding performance and long term, sustainable growth.
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