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We report on the findings of a survey that sets out to establish how business leaders in Scotland see the importance of culture and values in their organisations

THE “Values in Business” consultancy Robinson Boddice LLP and CA Magazine conducted a joint research project in May seeking the opinions of private sector business leaders in Scotland on the factors that contribute to the success of their organisations.

We were interested to learn more about the significance of various strategic and o… Continue

In our August 2009 edition we published the results of the initial research work conducted during May 2009 looking at attitudes held by the senior executives in Scotland’s Private Sector on factors related to leadership, building and maintaining successful sustainable organisations and on creating competitive advantage. We identified that the original results from the random selection of 198 of Scotland’s Top 500 organisations and Scotland’s Top 250 SME’s threw up questions that we wished to exp… Continue

We recognise that both functions are absolutely necessary. Our experience to date, reinforced by the results of our recent research activity, suggests that there is confusion in the minds of many. Our view, along with many other commentators, is that both functions are necessarily involved at all levels of an organisation. However our evidence suggests many CEO’s engage themselves in management tasks as opposed to facilitative leadership. Many of them appear to spend an inappropriate proportion… Continue

Our recent meetings with CEO's, Senior Directors, Divisional Directors, and Procurement Teams in the Public Sector have highlighted the enormous challenges that front line services face - and will have to face for probably the next ten years - in meeting the rising expectations, standards and quality of delivery demanded by, though not exclusively, the ageing baby-boomer generation.

It is clear that the prevailing economic climate in combination with declared reductions in funding will have an… Continue

Our recent research with CEO’s in Scotland’s Private Sector has shown a degree of confusion between Training and Corporate Coaching. We thought it time to clarify the issue.

When applied well Corporate Coaching creates short and long-term benefits for all stakeholders – at Organisation, Team and Individual levels.

In our opinion the key benefits of why CEO’s should engage and get involved with Corporate Coaching at each level include:

Organisation level:
Improved organisation performance
High… Continue