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How to leverage the healthy differences in your team as a competitive advantage
Authors: Horizon37 Team. Capture the benefits of healthy differences within your business, using the famous Dimensions of Difference exercise. Learn more about our new Difference Bootcamp and gain insight, tips and guidance from people who have experience with the programme.
Boards: too much delving, or just doomed?
Authors: Katy Tuncer, Joanne Roberts, contributing authors from Ecosystem Altruist event (July 2023). Are some boards just doomed? Floating this concept with an ‘Ecosystem Altruist group’ recently, there was a strong appetite and ambition about the opportunity to improve board performance with concerted effort. This article condenses their insight and ideas for the benefit of boards across the business scale-up ecosystem.
How to connect with your audience and build a story that they want to be part of
Authors: The Horizon37 Team with contributions from Liz Rivers. Imagine you’re trying to raise £20 million in your next fundraise, your slide deck is prepped, the right people are in the room, what happens next is massively important for your business direction. Why are you speaking…
Two quick checklists to turn paralysing feedback conversations into purposeful performance step-ups
Authors: Katy Tuncer, Vojislava Cekerevac, Joanne Roberts. Introducing Fresh Feedback Feedback is like food, it fuels individuals, teams and businesses to grow and develop. However, as we place more focus on compassion, inclusion, innovation and mental wellbeing, in the face of a stressful global environment, this lever of performance uplift seems to be ailing. More than ever, we need…
Five scale-up leadership trends that will trash results in 2023 (and what you can do about them)
Authors: Richard Gibson, Katy Tuncer, Jo Roberts. The good news is that successful scale-up leaders can stop these trends from trashing results. The bad news is that there are five important trends that will challenge scale-up leaders like never before in 2023, putting business outcomes at risk. We worked with 56 businesses in 2022*, and have pooled our experiences…
Expansion News! Our new commitment to the Berlin innovation ecosystem
Expansion News! Horizon37 coach Emily Koolen, from January, will be dedicated to leading our new commitment to the Berlin innovation ecosystem. Like the brilliant leaders we work with, we have our own bold scale-up ambitions. There are lots of opportunities for us to be valuable for innovation businesses, and we are choosing carefully how and where to scale our…
Align teams through closed-loop planning
Insight shared by Paul Anson, Katy Tuncer and Jo Roberts. Are you anti-planning? “No time to plan, we are doers around here.” “No plan survives contact with the enemy anyway!” “Everyone already knows what we need to do in our business!” “Planning” gets bad press. It’s boring, time-consuming and unfashionable. It looks a bit like this, right? Newsflash: Proper…
Prove, Defy, Generate
Leader: “Things are very tough….” [The very eloquent and articulate leader gives a strongly analytical and robust description of the impossible situation he is in.] Coach: “Wow, the stakeholders REALLY ARE that stuck in their ways/slow?” Leader: “Yes, I’ve tried everything. And you would not believe how dysfunctional they are.” Coach: “Have you tried challenging them directly?” Leader: “Yes,…
Generating Resilience in Teams
Do you want to be on your A-game when it matters? Or your B-game 24/7? Leaders are valuing resilient teams more and more right now. They can adapt and innovate in the face of new challenges; beat the competition when the unexpected happens; and stay motivated and collaborative when the going gets tough. A-game when it matters We notice…
Ecosystem Impact Review: The Pandemic Period 2020-22
Why are we doing this review now? We have always been committed to contributing positive and meaningful impact for scale-up leaders and their businesses. We want to be sure we are deploying our products and time where we have the greatest positive impact. As 2022 gets underway, we want to step back and reflect on what has gone well…
All on the same side: as business moves out of the bunkers, it’s time to focus on contribution and strengthen relationships
As the pandemic restrictions lift, businesses will look to surge ahead with their plans, be it launching a new product or moving into new markets. One thing is for certain – there will be plenty more surprises to come. That’s part of the territory for a start-up or a scale-up project, to run from one crisis to another. Successful…
How to stay laser-focussed by handling distractions more powerfully
Do you ever end the day frustrated with the amount you have achieved, or irritated with yourself for wasting time on the wrong things? No matter how organised you are, we all face a constant stream of opportunities to shift focus away from our planned work. Whether you have a number of requests for your time, or it’s your…
Maximising the value of your mentor relationship
The leaders we coach often sit on both sides of the mentoring relationship. Part of our work is to ensure that leaders engage and leverage a network, and when they invest in mentoring, they maximise the value of the relationship. The more effective mentors seem to have a magical combination of relevant experience and wisdom and an ability to…
