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🎯The UK’s most-searched OD issue right now: building 'change-ready' organisations amid AI-driven transformation without burning people out!
If you’re juggling multiple change programmes while sensing change fatigue, you’re in the mainstream: - 98% of UK CEOs expect to make...
Ian Kirkby
Aug 132 min read
From Crisis to Capability: Five Leadership Shifts UK Executives Must Embrace Now
Based on an article in 'HBR on Leadership' by Rae Ringel and Lisa Kay Solomon, 13 March 2025: https://bit.ly/AspireMCL250603 June 2025...
Ian Kirkby
Jun 172 min read
Retention Woes - UK SMEs Are Losing Their Talent!
Quick ideas to boost employee retention in SMEs.
Ian Kirkby
Jun 101 min read
Productivity Slumps: Why UK SMEs Are Losing Their Edge
UK SMEs are currently facing a troubling productivity plateau. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data from 2024 shows productivity...
Ian Kirkby
Jun 51 min read
State of the Global Workplace 2025 - Implications and Recommendations for the UK
The 2025 Gallup Global Workplace Report* highlights significant challenges facing the global workforce and includes worrying figures for...
Ian Kirkby
May 212 min read
What could your senior leadership team achieve if it worked to its full potential?
That was the question Bain & Company consultants asked a client in 2022. The client had been successful, growing in both size and...
Ian Kirkby
Jan 75 min read
Values and Culture - Not Just a 'Nice to Have'
In Peter Drucker's famous words, 'Culture eats strategy for breakfast'. And he's right! This study by Gallup shows a clear link between a...
Ian Kirkby
May 22, 20243 min read
Why Engagement Matters!
Gallup defines employee engagement as 'the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in their work and workplace'. The business benefits of...
Ian Kirkby
May 1, 20242 min read
An Overview of Organisational Health
I really enjoyed presenting on organisational health (OH) to Catena Lincolnshire at the Louth Lunch last week. I made the case for the...
Ian Kirkby
Jul 27, 20221 min read
What is your Culture (and is it working for you)?
As Peter Drucker once famously said: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." It is not that defining an organisation's mission (purpose),...
Ian Kirkby
Jun 14, 20224 min read
Is Creating a Mission Statement Worth the Effort?
I am sure that like me you have seen many eye-roll-inducing mission statements and wondered why anyone would waste time writing such...
Ian Kirkby
Oct 25, 20212 min read
Organisational Health: What it is, why it matters and how to develop it
Here is my latest article on LinkedIn (LI truncated the text!): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/organisational-health-what-why-matters-how...
Ian Kirkby
Jul 27, 20211 min read
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast!" - So how can you grow a high-performance culture?
Those famous words by Peter Drucker, the consultant widely regarded as the father of modern management thinking, have been proved true...
Ian Kirkby
Jul 8, 20212 min read
The Effect of the Pandemic on Employee Engagement.
Engaged employees are those who are motivated at work and actively seek to promote their organisations' interests. The business benefits...
Ian Kirkby
Jun 21, 20212 min read
Leading Change
This is a really good article by Ron Carucci for the HBR on how leaders can avoid repeating mistakes when leading organisational change:...
Ian Kirkby
Mar 31, 20211 min read
It's Here! Aspire MCL's Leadership Development Programme
Aspire MCL is pleased to offer a one-year, online or face-to-face (post-Covid restrictions) leadership development programme. This will...
Ian Kirkby
Feb 25, 20211 min read
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