Nick Howes, Author at LMI-UK

The Advantage of Organisational Health: Lessons from Patrick Lencioni

Unlocking the true potential of your business goes beyond smart strategies—it lies in organisational health. Patrick Lencioni’s model from The Advantage reveals how a cohesive leadership team, clear communication, and alignment at all levels can transform your company’s performance. Discover why organisational health is the ultimate competitive advantage and how reinforcing clarity through “spaced repetition” ensures your team stays on the same page.

Vision – bringing purpose to life

There’s a slightly clichéd story about stonecutters that you’ve probably heard before but which is nonetheless helpful when thinking about vision. It goes something like this: A stranger passes by and asks the first stonecutter what they are doing. “I’m cutting...

The urgent need to manage interruptions

In today's fast-paced work environment, interruptions seem inevitable. From emails to phone calls and meetings, Teams chat and Slack conversations, distractions can easily take away from our productivity. We believe that uninterrupted time is at least four times more...

Post Summer Productivity

As summer draws to a close and schools reopen, there will be many of us returning to work feeling refreshed and motivated after some much-needed rest and relaxation. Taking a summer break to spend time with friends and family, or just getting away from it all, can...

We’re building a cathedral! – The Power of Vision

It's an old and slightly cheesy story, but one that still makes a crucial point. A tourist was walking by a construction site and saw three brick masons busy at work: The traveller stopped, watched the workers for a while and asked, “What are you doing?” The first...

7 Guaranteed Ways to Motivate Your Team

Every leader and manager in every industry and every different type and size of organisation wants all of their people to come to work every day feeling highly motivated so that they perform to the very best of their ability AND feel great about doing so. The idea...

Responsible business practices recognised as LMI receive GBC accreditation

Leadership Management International (UK) has become the latest organisation to receive an accreditation from the Good Business Charter (GBC), which demonstrates responsible business practices across ten key areas. At a time when people care more about who they work...

The three pillars of communication

In previous communication blogs, we discussed the importance of making regular contact with colleagues during lockdown, scheduling specific times in the day for effective and thorough communication to take place. However, it’s all good and well blocking out hours of...

Schedule your communication

Unfortunately, communication mishaps are a lot more common than we’d like to believe. According to a popular theory, every single person will experience some sort of communication issue each day, and when this theory is shared with others, most people tend to agree....

Lockdown communication

In March 2020, the UK and many other parts of the world, were plunged into lockdown, as millions of people were forced to return to remote working in line with Government guidance. Accompanied by their children, pets, partners, parents and flatmates, the battle for...

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