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Meet Jeff Grout who, if you missed him here in Dublin, is one of the UK’s leading business consultants, specialising in leadership, people management, team building, peak performance, recruitment and retention issues. Here he tells Vistage Ireland about some useful approaches to combating the recession, particularly for the SME sector. Jeff Grout was, until 2000, UK Managing Director of Robert Half International, the largest specialist recruitment consultancy in the world. He graduated from the London School of Economics, and joined Robert Half International as a recruiter at the age of 28, after an eclectic career as a van driver, passport office administrator, cleaner and town planner. He remained with the company for almost 21 years and built up the UK opera
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Monday 17th October, Fitzwilliam Hall, Dublin How do leaders really spend their time? Are they preoccupied with strategy? Are they focussed on the present or the future? How do they motivate their people and get ‘buy in’? Jeff will identify the core skills and behaviour displayed by those leaders. He will examine how they deal with people – the steps they take to establish trust and understanding, the importance of communication and the approaches used to inspire top performance. Jeff will also discuss how leaders create and articulate a clear vision for their organisation and how they effectively lead change. Jeff’s presentation style is straight-forward, accessible and rich with vivid anecdotes. The session is relevant to anyone who finds themselves thrown into a leadership role. It will al
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As a Vistage Group Chair operating in Dublin, I am very conscious of the challenges and opportunities facing CEOs today.
The dictionary of disaster words has been exhausted to describe the current economic and financial position of the country in which businesses have to operate.
And yet, every CEO has to get up and lead his or her business every day, and find ways of dealing directly and through his/her staff with a myriad of issues, all of which are more complex and time-consuming today:-
- retaining existing customers and maintaining the relevance of service offerings and products......
- finding new customers and products,
Ask anyone running a business and they will certainly agree. During the current downturn, people in charge of organisations, commercial and non commercial, public and private, are being forced to make painful decisions affecting often long serving employees and their families. It is not easy to ask people to challenge and perhaps abandon established ways of working, traditional structures, or settled arrangements. In a very uncertain world, it is not easy to determine which of the massive market changes are transient and which are the ones to build on for the future. Many chief executives feel a need to test their ideas in such an environment. However, given inevitable time constraints and the need to maintain the confidence of and support those around one, the process of engineering such a dis
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