Jacky Clarke

I know for a number of entrepreneurs at the moment, you aren’t even thinking about changing the world – well not as your main goal. Right now your main goal is to pay your bills and keep the lights on! However, I have had the same conversations with clients over and over again in the […]

It can be hard to get clarity in a time of crisis. With so many people giving ‘advice’ on what we should be doing, most of these people have never been in our shoes. They are our moms, friends, relatives – their advice comes from the best place, they want us to be safe, they

With so much happening in the world at the moment, I have seen a number of people going in a number of directions at once, scrambling to doing anything they can to get by. And while I completely understand this response in crisis – it just doesn’t work! I have created a free mini-series of

So much has changed over the last few weeks. Not only in business but in life in general. For a lot of people, it is a slower life, a life of being home, doing less, saving more. For some, our key workers, it is busy, more dangerous and more stressful than ever! And this is

Communicate well Help them build a structure Keep morale high Focus on important things first Communication will be key over the next few weeks; everyone is feeling uncertain and that means that a lot of people will be functioning using their emotional brain. Functioning in this place for a long time can cause high anxiety

With the Covid-19 being in full swing, the world has gone into lockdown. Businesses are across the UK are aiming to reduce the amount of contact that employees have with each other and clients.  Since the law changed in 2003 the UK employers have been having no requests for flexible working, with some companies choosing

The more business owners I talk to, the more I release how much the delay in Brexit has created a false sense of security. Business owners seem to be waiting for it to happen before they actually worry about doing anything about it. As much as the last 3 years has been a pain and

With all of the companies I have the pleasure of working with, all of the different industries, levels of people, years of experience, it still surprises me when I get told that people are avoiding having the really difficult conversations. These could be about performance or quality of work, but more and more I am

Deciding to develop your leadership team can be a really large decision for any business. You need to get a group of stakeholders to buy into the idea, figure out the gaps in key skills or knowledge and then find the right person to deliver the culture change program. If we miss any of these

As I start to attend more networking events, I have started to notice how many people arrive unprepared. They arrive in the hope that someone will find them and want their products. If business was that simple everyone would have their own business. I thought it might be useful for people to have a few