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Practical guidance and advice from real-life business experiences for business leaders (4) --- ** # Vistage UK Blog ** Category: All categories Uncategorized Business Leading, Not Managing Getting Ahead Strategy Work/Life Balance Issues Employee Motivation Life At The Top Sales Vistage Members Speakers HR Economy Marketing Recruitment Vistage Change Management Being a new CEO Vistage Chair Exit Planning/Strategies Family Business Technology Vistage Staff Time Management Vistage Open Days Mental Health Brexit Negotiation Scaleup Business Cybersecurity Raising finance 91 Results [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) April 2, 2016 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/cricket-753938_640.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/how-cricket-can-increase-workplace-productivity) ### [How Cricket Can Increase Workplace Productivity... Honest! ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/how-cricket-can-increase-workplace-productivity) I recently spoke with Tom Seymour, Sales Director at Durham County Cricket Club who believes that you can build teamwork in your workplace through sports —.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) March 11, 2016 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/office-1078869_1280.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/help-your-employees-behave-like-owners-and-generate-bottom-line-impact-in-90-days) ### [Help Your Employees Behave Like Owners and Generate Bottom Line Impact in 90 Days](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/help-your-employees-behave-like-owners-and-generate-bottom-line-impact-in-90-days) People are the only asset that walk out the door every night and consciously decide whether to return or not the next day. They decide each day whether to.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) February 12, 2016 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/tree-trunk-569275_1280.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/is-your-leadership-style-stopping-your-business-from-growing-part-2) ### [Is Your Leadership Style Stopping Your Business From Growing? Part 2.](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/is-your-leadership-style-stopping-your-business-from-growing-part-2) Last week, in the first part of this series, we started to look at the barriers a lot of business leaders encounter when faced with the challenge of real.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) February 5, 2016 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/stump-933702_1280.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/is-your-leadership-style-stopping-your-business-from-growing-part-1) ### [Is Your Leadership Style Stopping Your Business From Growing? Part 1.](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/is-your-leadership-style-stopping-your-business-from-growing-part-1) Believe it or not, not all businesses want to grow. Some people just want a lifestyle business, have it stay about the same, not grow and just keep ticking.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) December 4, 2015 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/sad_girl.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/is-employee-wellbeing-the-real-failure-of-your-business) ### [Is Employee Wellbeing the Real Failure of Your Business?](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/is-employee-wellbeing-the-real-failure-of-your-business) It is becoming clear that there are three key objectives to focus on when running a business: To do whatever you do and make a profit To market whatever it is.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) November 26, 2015 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/spot-862274_1280.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/why-first-impressions-really-do-count) ### [Why First Impressions Really Do Count for Your New Recruits](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/why-first-impressions-really-do-count) I’m sure we all have a story about that great candidate we hired who didn’t quite turn out as well as we’d hoped, or that great employee we hired who left.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) November 6, 2015 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-650460854-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/Soldiers_Staff_Employees.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/staff-motivation-101-mastering-your-management-techniques) ### [Staff Motivation 101: Mastering Your Management Techniques](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/staff-motivation-101-mastering-your-management-techniques) You will often find yourself juggling so many jobs that you have to become dependent on your team - and while their support is undoubtedly integral to the.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) October 30, 2015 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/crystal-791376_1920.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/the-real-magic-of-engaging-your-people) ### [The Real Magic of Engaging Your People](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/the-real-magic-of-engaging-your-people) Ask a business leader what managing people means to them and they’ll undoubtedly use words like payroll, employment legislation and record keeping. Some will.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) October 9, 2015 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/phone-852952_1280.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/wellbeing-why-it-matters) ### [Wellbeing – Why it Matters](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/wellbeing-why-it-matters) Like many business leaders, I fill my days with activity related to planning, measuring, motivating, discussing, analysing and generally thinking about our.. [Leading, Not Managing](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/leading-not-managing) July 30, 2015 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hubfs/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/birds_in_cage.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/so-you-think-you-have-the-perfect-office-environment) ### [So, You Think You Have the Perfect Office Environment?](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/so-you-think-you-have-the-perfect-office-environment) We all know the lifeblood of every business is its team, with this one invaluable asset directly influencing the ultimate success of the company as a whole... 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