News
Is the economic crisis continuing?
Not for LMI-UK and the clients who use us. At the end of November LMI-UK will officially record a 25.8% growth in business against the whole of 2012, and with more new contracts confirmed through to the middle of February 2014. As the UK economy awakens from the past few years of downturn, companies are…
The Empowerment Imperative
During this past week (ended 08th Nov) I attended three excellent events in Central Manchester, each with a distinct focus. Yet the concept of the Empowerment Imperative straddled them all: a) The Manchester Creative Studio school for 14-19 year opening Sept 2014 is the new type of workbased, work styled environment where students will have…
Senior managers are in denial about low levels of trust in their organisations, warns CIPD
One in three employees rate trust in senior managers as weak, but those at the top have a rosier view More than one in three employees report that their level of trust in senior managers is weak (34%), while an overwhelming majority report that they trust in their colleagues and line managers to some or…
Towards Investors In People
This week we saw the beginning of a very exciting new project, working with a national manufacturing company to achieve their goal of achieving the Investors In People standard. Our pilot group involves 8 managers from across the business, with varying levels of seniority, undertaking the LMI Effective Leadership Development programme. Plans are already afoot…
Financial services & manufacturing leaders worst in UK
The Financial Services and Manufacturing industries have the weakest leaders in the UK, according to a detailed study released this morning by Head Heart + Brain, a leadership development consultancy. Telecoms leaders are the best bosses in UK 40% of financial services employees say their leaders have put them under a lot of stress in…
Mo Ibrahim African leaders prize unclaimed again
The world’s most valuable individual prize – the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa – has gone unclaimed yet again. The $5m (£3.2m) prize is supposed to be awarded each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. This is the fourth time in five years…
Appeal for Sponsors to develop our Youth
The future strength and leadership of the nation is squarely in the hands of our youth. The key to their success will be in developing, within each of them, a winning attitude to achieve. With this being our goal 8 students at Chalfont Community College in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks, are now being coached through…
Who said UK schools don’t invest in building winners?
The Principle of Chalfont Community College in Buckinghamshire has just given the green light for Ray King, LMI-UK, to coach and facilitate 10 sixth form students through LMI’s globally successful youth programme, The Making of a Champion. This 11 week programme will build within the group an achievers attitude toward success. This is nothing new…
Life after Oil
Saudi Arabia may have many challenges to face in it’s pursuit of “Life after the Oil runs out” but leadership won’t be one of them. Only a few weeks ago LMI-SA announced it had been awarded the first of many contracts to develop over 400 Leaders and Potential Leaders using LMI’s Total Leaders concept. The intervention…