8 Daily Habits of Successful Leaders

If your inbox and meeting schedule is dominating your working life, here are some habits adopted by successful leaders that enable them to retain a fresh perspective and intellectual edge.

1. Get out in the field – Management by walking about tends to illicit far more accurate information than reports and spreadsheets.  …

Richard Branson says “Have fun and look after your team”, We couldn’t agree more…

Recently, Richard Branson’s top tips for success have gone viral. Here at Fresh Tracks, we’re thrilled that he’s identified the importance of having fun with his team, something we agree with wholeheartedly.

If you would like to follow his lead then get in contact to see how we can help develop your team and have fun in the process.

5 Ways Play will Boost your Business

Dangerous pranks, hurtful banter and the risk of distraction, are probably the reasons so many managers clamp down on fun at work. In doing so they are missing out on a number of opportunities to save money, harness talent and make new discoveries.

Read on for our top 5 ways in which play can boost your business… …

3 Reasons Why Good People Will Quit in January

As we take time to rest and reflect over the Christmas holiday, it’s likely that some of your smartest colleagues will be making a new year resolution to switch jobs!

 

Here are the most common reasons why people might quit, and some ideas on how to keep hold of your talent:…

Trust your team… it’s blindingly obvious

Trust is a two way street, and developing trust within your team can be a key strategy to driving the business forward. 

We recently re-discovered this piece from the Times (March 3, 2005) about our blindfolded 4×4 driving course.  A perfect event for demonstrating and developing trust… and a lot of fun to boot….

Broken Leaders – How to spot them

An MBA at Harvard will set you back around $150k, at the end of which you’ll have a potentially good leader. Add to this ongoing training at upwards of £500 per day, the costs of selection, shadowing and a few failures and you should get a reasonable manager. Developing good leaders is a costly business.

It’s therefore somewhat ironic that while we’ve got better at creating this precious commodity of bright talent we often fail to notice when cracks appear….

An Invitation to Tea at the Ritz

During November, January and February we will be hosting a series of discussions over afternoon tea at some of the country’s finest hotels.

What better way to spend half a mid-week afternoon than informally discussing the emerging developments in your area of work, whilst enjoying delicious savouries and cakes….

The top five lessons team leaders can learn from bees

When it comes to working as a team, studies show that bees really are the best.  Here are our top five lessons we can apply to our own working lives.

1. Honest communication and sharing information is at the heart of the team.
Bees use vibrations and pheromones to help pass complex messages.  We have so much technology to help us communicate; let’s not forget that using it with honesty is they key to excellent communication.  …

New Team Activity – Catapult Conundrum

Our latest team building activity combines mental agility with collaboration, construction and commercial prowess.

 

This original team building challenge from Fresh Tracks sees teams compete in a catapult competition. …

Is there a place for Humour in the Workplace?

For most of us, work is serious business. We have targets to meet, projects to complete and in some cases even lives to save. A wise man once said, “Just because the work you do is serious, it doesn’t mean you have to be serious about the way you do your work“.

This quote is perfectly illustrated by the image of doctors in an operating theatre…