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SMEs leading from the front by Brian Chernett

So, the first budget of the UK Coalition Government UK will have been delivered by the time this blog is published. I can only speculate on what might be included. It’s clear that the options open to George Osborne in his first budget are limited. He has to make cuts in government spending plans and […]

Getting the best out of your team following a re-structure

The Academy for Chief Executives, a leading provider of experiential business learning® facilitates groups of CEOs and Managing Directors who meet together every month to network and take full advantage of peer group learning. Part of membership involves members taking their issues to the table and discussing them with their peers. At a recent meeting, […]

Practical Performance Coaching

Steve Head gave chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group members (from Peter Pritchett’s Academy Groups 5 and 32) a very practical and powerful workshop on Practical Performance Coaching in July. Developed from Tim Gallwey’s “The Inner Game” and sports coaching experience, high performance coaching is the process by which the coach can allow an […]

The Metaphor of Poker – Risk and Reward in Business

Members of The Academy for Chief Executives (from London and Scotland) recently had corporate speaker Caspar Berry talk to them about the analogies to be drawn between poker and business and the nature of risk and reward. He spoke to chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group members about the business connection between an expert […]

Senior Executives get made redundant too

The Academy for Chief Executives, a leading provider of experiential business learning® facilitates groups of CEOs and Managing Directors who meet together every month to network and take full advantage of experiential learning. Part of membership is ‘The Board You Could Never Afford®‘ where members take their issues to the table and discuss with their […]

Buying a business during an economic downturn

The Issue: “Should I buy a company during an economic downturn?” The advice from members of The Academy for Chief Executives was: * We certainly shouldn’t generalise about the best time to buy a company. There are advantages to purchasing a business during an economic downturn and if the synergies are right then timing can […]

How Green Is Your Business?

Academy Group 18, chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group (with members from Central Manchester, North Manchester and Lancashire) recently had ecological expert Anthony Day talk to them on the subject of ‘Will Climate Change My Business?’ As an MD who keeps up to date with current issues, but battling to keep up with the […]

Maximising the Leader’s Energy

Academy Group 20, chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group (with members from Leeds, York and Halifax) together with Academy Group 39 (with members from across the West Country ) recently had nutrition, health and environmental expert Patrick Holford talk to them about ‘How to Maximise the Leader’s Energy and Mental Performance’. How you think […]

Partnership Conflicts in Business

The Academy for Chief Executives, a leading provider of experiential business learning facilitates groups of CEOs and Managing Directors who meet together every month to network and take full advantage of experiential learning. Part of membership is ‘The Board You Could Never Afford‘ where members take their issues to the table and discuss with their […]

Make Your Website More Effective

Leaders Forum 9, chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group (with members from NW London, Herts, Beds and Bucks) recently had web/internet expert Graham Jones talk to them about ‘why they should scrap their corporate website’ The key points about making your website more effective were… Your website is not your brochure – your website […]