Strategy Café - Alex Atherton Gen x and Gen z - snowflakes and hoarders
Wonderful discussion from an ex Head Teacher turned coach on why genz and genx can fail to get each other and what to do about it.
Dec 04, 2024•49 min
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Strategy Café: Mairi Mickel and Martin Stellar: How do families in business start to make changes when they can’t agree?
What do you do when you cannot agree, as a hashtag#familybusiness? Especially if that is about agreeing to get help? This was a wonderful, vulnerable Strategy Café discussion with the incredible Mairi Mickel and Martin Stellar, looking at this conundrum from the family's perspective, the adviser's perspective and as a coach to the adviser. Amazing, you get three different views of the same problem here with some really rich ideas and solutions. Recommended for family's in business and family bus...
Nov 03, 2024•54 min
Strategy Café with the Alembic Team: Is Your Business Investment Ready?
Join the Alembic Team for an insightful webinar that explores how to manage the pace of growth, evaluate your business model’s capability, and optimise your systems and processes. Discover the vital role people play in driving change and learn strategies for creating additional capacity within your organisation. We’ll discuss the importance of governance as the foundation for sustainable growth, and how to recognise when your team is ready to scale. Plus, we share practical tools you can impleme...
Sep 20, 2024•58 min
Strategy Café: Provoked! With Todd Kashdan
Watch as Dr. Todd Kashdan explores how anxiety and anger, often seen as negative, can be reframed as powerful motivators in the right context and with an appropriate level of intensity. Learn how moderate anxiety enhances performance and vigilance, and why anger can drive constructive action. Discover the importance of recognising emotional intensity and expressing emotions appropriately in different situations. Todd shares how we can learn to embrace both ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ emotions for ...
Aug 01, 2024•49 min
Strategy Café with James Mitra: Empowering Your Start-Up/Scale-Up: Human-Centred Search
Tune in to our Strategy Café with James Mitra to hear: - How a chance encounter had a positive impact on both himself and his business, and was a lightbulb moment that changed his attitude to networking, - How JBM has scaled purely through word of mouth from clients, - The importance of creating an environment where people want to stay, - What he has learned through his mistakes, - How James and JBM are disrupting the recruitment industry with their focus on relationships, values and connection....
Jun 27, 2024•46 min
Strategy Café with Ned Cummings: Hiring to transform your board
Tune in as Ned Cummings, Chief Revenue Officer at Nurole, discusses: - Empowering candidates by matching their passions and interests to opportunities, - How to invest in your board for maximum ROI, - Common trigger points of conflict at the board level, - And more... If you're looking to revolutionise your board composition and bring fresh, diverse perspectives to the table, Ned's insights are invaluable!
May 31, 2024•42 min
Strategy Café with Peter van Eeden on Growth: How it impacts the people
Tune in as Peter van Eeden shares examples & learnings on the impact growth can have on the people in organisations during acquisition, fast growth, & growing then closing. This thought-provoking Strategy Café highlights the importance of asking the question ‘what is the impact of change on the people?’ Don’t miss this webinar full of essential insights into managing growth while prioritising the well-being of your team
Apr 18, 2024•53 min
Strategy Café With David Levine: How to Raise Money Like a Pro by a Pro
Check out our exciting Strategy Café session with wizard fundraiser David Levine as he shares all his best magical insights to help you prepare yourself, your business, your idea, your pitch deck, and your process for success in the challenging yet navigable world of fundraising. While securing funding can be daunting, David will show you how to streamline the process and optimise your approach. If you're a founder in search of funding, look no further! Watch David's Café for invaluable tips and...
Feb 29, 2024•40 min
Strategy Café with John Harte: Getting Deal Ready
Tune in as John Harte discusses: - Where his passion for good governance started - How to manage the challenges of resolving conflict at the board level - The Agency Model - The three currencies of honesty, trust, and respect - Board legacy and decision-making - Adopting an adaptability and contribution mindset - The Chair's facilitation role and board processes - The Four Lines of Sight - Leading in a VUCA world This session offers practical insights and strategies for enhancing governance prac...
Jan 26, 2024•43 min
Strategy Café on Burying the Dead Cats with the Alembic Team
The dynamic of your leadership team, especially in a family business, is key to success. Great teams have more chance of surviving in a difficult market and will outperform other teams in a good one. There is no route to high performance without being deeply emotionally involved with one another and easing the tensions that pressure brings. When interpersonal chemistry and relational intelligence in leadership teams are not yet developed, the tensions of daily life sometimes become 'Dead Cats.' ...
Dec 14, 2023•45 min
Strategy Café with Minter Dial & Michael Borrelli: AI - the downsides, risks, & regulations
Join Wanda, Minter, and Michael as they discuss these AI regulation questions: What does current AI regulation look like? Whose responsibility is it to regulate and govern AI? How can we get the AI regulation level right? What is the most important thing for companies to understand regarding AI governance? Where can businesses start?
Oct 26, 2023•30 min
Transformation and Incorporating AI with the Alembic Team
Tune in to hear the Alembic Team's experience of AI so far, the ethical and emotional questions raised by AI, and what to consider before incorporating AI into your business.
Sep 29, 2023•45 min
Strategy Café with Minter Dial on Making AI and Empathy Come Alive
Tune in as Minter Dial discusses what empathy actually means, the importance of empathy when working with people and how it changes things, and building empathy into AI, business, and our personal interactions.
Jul 27, 2023•43 min
Strategy Café on A Thoughtful Approach To Succession with Experts Bryony Cove and Tom McGinness
Join succession experts Bryony Cove from Farrer & Co. and Tom McGinness from KPMG as they discuss how we can uncover the wants and needs of the person being succeeded, the role and responsibilities of both the next generation and the generation retiring, how grief and change are not linear, and how both generations can create space for the right conversations. Plus some examples of successful and challenging client succession throughout.
Jun 29, 2023•39 min
Strategy Café Discovery: Finding Your Path Through Succession With the Alembic Team
Join the Alembic Team as they discuss the transitional phase of succession, the role of process and governance, how to set the new CEO up for success, the 'human factor' that is often overlooked but key to success, and key criteria to keep in mind during succession. The team also shares real examples of where succession has gone well and failed in their experience and why.
Jun 14, 2023•41 min
Strategy Café on Making the Transition From Founder to Family-Led with Dr Chris and James Mason
Join Chris Mason and James Mason from Mindshop as they discuss how Chris knew it was right time to bring his son James into the business, what this experience was like for James including overcoming imposter syndrome as he grew into his role, and the importance of clear roles, vision and authenticity.
Apr 27, 2023•45 min
Strategy Café With the Alembic Team - Founders, Are the Best Ideas Yours?
Join the Alembic Team as they discuss the importance of identity and self-awareness as a founder, building trust, and how to identify and address your blind spots to allow you to step back and allow others to step up and make decisions.
Mar 31, 2023•43 min
Strategy Café on Founders and Leadership With Matt Price
Join Matt Price and Nick Mayhew as they discuss making the jump from employee to founder, when founding is the right answer, focusing on your growth as an individual, the importance of being curious and open-minded, and how to face challenges head-on.
Feb 23, 2023•44 min
Strategy Café with Philip Mackeown: Part 2 How to Avoid the Pitfalls of the Family Business Model
Join Philip Mackeown, Nick, and Matt as they discuss the complexity of interpersonal and family dynamics especially as a business grows, the importance of legacy, the emotional landscape of succession, and how to identify and invest in key relationships.
Feb 23, 2023•51 min
Strategy Café on How to Avoid the Pitfalls of the Family Business Model
Join Nick and Matt from the Alembic Team as they discuss the pros and cons of bringing your family into your business, the 3 things you need to consider when thinking about integration, both the practical and emotional/human side and creating neutrality.
Oct 28, 2022•46 min
Strategy Café on Patience and Persistence with Neil Davy, CEO of the IFB
Join Neil Davy, CEO of the IFB, and Nick Mayhew as they discuss the pivotal moments in his leadership journey, redefining what we mean by purpose in business, tensions in family businesses, and leadership resonance.
Sep 22, 2022•41 min
Strategy Café on the Challenging Choice with the Alembic Team
Tune in to hear Roseanna, Nick and Matt discuss when to choose challenge and when not to, how discomfort can help us to grow, how to step out of your comfort zone and the importance of wellbeing in leadership and challenge.
Jun 30, 2022•38 min
Strategy Café with the Happiness Index: Sorting Fact from Fiction in the New Quest For Happiness
Tune in to hear Nick Mayhew and Chris and Clive Hyland discuss the importance of asking emotional questions, how to build a thriving culture, insight into the neuroscience of happiness, and answering the question 'is happiness alone enough?'.
May 27, 2022•41 min
Strategy Café With Em Stroud: Why You Are Not Creative Enough and How to Change That
Join Nick Mayhew and Em Stroud as they discuss the things that suppress our creativity, creating space for creativity, finding the joy in challenge. Plus get Em's top tips for enabling creativity in places where you might not feel that it is a strong feature of the environment.
Apr 27, 2022•32 min
Strategy Café: Transformation with the Alembic Team
Join Matt, Nick and Roseanna as they discuss the three levels of transformation - personal, team, and organisational, and the challenges that must be faced at each level. They discuss the importance of story, how to reach flow as a team, and finally where they see the most common mistakes when it comes to organisational change. Plus, the team share their top 10 tools for successful transformation.
Mar 25, 2022•33 min
Strategy Café: Sheriff Alison Gowman and the Livery Climate Action Group
Join Nick as he interviews Sheriff and Alderman Alison Gowman. They discuss what first drew Alison to the City of London, how it felt to be one of the first female partners in law in the City, the key to building relationships in challenging industries and finally her work on climate change with the City of London Corporation and Livery Climate Action Group.
Feb 10, 2022•35 min
Strategy Café on Efficiency: How to Make Something from Nothing
Join Nick, Roseanna and Matt as they discuss cognitive waste - how can we come together as a team and focus on the right things? The team also discussed the different ways of identifying and tackling waste in organisations.
Nov 25, 2021•35 min
Strategy Café: Closing The Motivation Gap With Susannah Brade-Waring
Join Roseanna Farish and Susannah Brade-Waring as they discuss the common headaches leaders face, how to address them, and what shifts in motivation mean for businesses.
Sep 30, 2021•46 min
Strategy Café with Matt Meyer: can strategy keep pace with identity?
Join Nick Mayhew and Matt Meyer as they discuss the challenging transition from manager to leader, the implications of too much focus on strategy, the importance of purpose, passion and communication, as well as questions from our audience.
May 27, 2021•49 min
Strategy Café: After the Pandemic, productivity, supervision and high performing teams
Join Nick, Roseanna and Matt in the final session of the 'After the pandemic' series. The team discuss forming hybrid teams, how to get good at resolving conflict online, and what virtual high performance looks like. Plus some great contributions from our audience!
May 06, 2021•55 min
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