Blog

The online diary of management consultant Nicky Spencer.

Accomplice ENews

Mid Spring crept up on me unnoticed and I’m quickly putting together our quarterly ‘enews’ letter … and realising my blog has been neglected.

Read the rest of Accomplice ENews »

On Five Team Dysfunctions

Launching the new team leadership programme gives me the luxury of updating my reading and knowledge on the subject. I whizzed through Patrick Lencioni’s 200 page book “The five dysfunctions of a team – a leadership fable” during a long-weekend looking after Mum in London.   Using a ‘fable’ to present a model, what a great idea: if [...]

Read the rest of On Five Team Dysfunctions »

Career transitions

The new Career Accomplice sessions began today. With all the change around, a large number of participants are making a ‘shadow’ career plans – a fall back position that takes into consideration risks around redundancy, periods of unemployment, early retirement, a lower salary and so on. I’ve noticed though that, when it comes to estimating [...]

Read the rest of Career transitions »

Moving Office …

Have spent the last week, on and off, moving the office from BioCity to the new one in Bingham.  Its my second office move in a year. Whilst there is the down-side of the chaos (including working with ‘that’ telephone company when it loses your bookings for phone line, when it arrives there’s a sound [...]

Read the rest of Moving Office … »