FounderFuel: Using better one-to-ones to boost your team
When we’re busy churning out deliverables and focused on working through the to-do-list as founders and startup leaders, it can be really easy for one-to-ones with our direct reports to just turn into task-focused status-updates. Or worse still, slashed from
FounderFuel: Boost the way you work together in a startup team with user-guides
As we all navigate the remote-hybrid-office conundrum and embrace flexibility in our work routine, it’s easy for misunderstandings to occur and frustrations to go unresolved. User-guides can help smooth the communication and collaboration between us and help us all find
FounderFuel: Winning the tricky Office-Remote-Hybrid conundrum as a startup
“I want to get it right, and I want everyone to enjoy their job” Bek, COO at Riverlane That is the overriding sentiment when it comes to this challenging topic of Office-Remote-Hybrid work – and it comes with a burdensome weight
FounderFuel: Harnessing positive feedback to fuel your team as a founder
When was the last time you told someone in your team they did something well? Did you make it specific what they did well too, so they can learn from it? We’re not talking about praise for praise’s sake here
FounderFuel: How team values can be a rallying force for a growing start-up
As founders, we’ve probably all sat down at some point and written a list of values for our ventures, but are these values effectively driving the team culture? Values at their best are about shaping how team members work together;
FounderFuel LIVE with two-time world record holder Laura Penhaul
How can we form teams that can really deliver under pressure? How can we deal with uncertainty as founders to lead the team when it really matters? What team behaviours drive a team to be truly effective? And… What do
FOUNDER FUEL: Fuel your resilience with little wins each day
It takes a special kind of resilience to be an entrepreneur – we all know running a startup is a marathon, not a sprint – so we need to make sure it stays topped up to go the distance. This
FOUNDER FUEL: Focus on what matters with your Big Rocks every week
Time is a fixed resource, which makes your time as a founder a precious asset. Through this lens, perhaps our most important job is to define which priorities get our time and focus. Once we’ve done that we can make
FOUNDER FUEL: Let’s give rest and recovery a rebrand in your head…
As an entrepreneur there is always more that we could do. How many times can you hear yourself thinking “If I can just get this finished” or “I should just do this one last thing” at the end of your
FOUNDER FUEL: Is planning always the best for your team? The conundrum of perceivers and judgers
Do some of your team start to get really uncomfortable when you start changing their plans? Or others start twitching when you are trying to agree to deadlines? This is the conundrum of the Judger and Perceiver personality traits, and