Want to be the best CEO? Ask for help.

CEO advice

In most cases, rising to the top of business is a long and arduous journey along myriad paths. Somewhere along the line, you will have asked for help from a colleague or mentor or even someone entirely unconnected to your industry. These moments are no reflection on your expertise, your work ethic or your intellect. Sometimes, […]

Leader’s Survey – Navigating C19

This is the second of ORESA’s Leadership Surveys. We designed the initiative to provide business leaders with insight into how their peers are feeling, adapting and planning during this unique time. Almost 90% of survey respondents were Board or C-suite level, and covered a breadth of sectors. To access the report, please enter your details […]

Should I hire interim or permanent executives?

interim executive hire

It’s time to start looking ahead. Whilst life may be VUCA, your business cannot afford to stay on pause. Having the right talent leading your company will impact not just how you survive but thrive in the future. When things are unstable, you might be tempted to reduce risk by looking at interim hires rather […]

Should you return to the office or shut-up shop?

opening the office

In real life telephone conversations, almost every CEO and Director that I have spoken to has had something to say about the future of the office. In our recent Leadership Survey their views were:  60% believe that home-working would become a right 73% thought that a head office would be retained  but 65% said that […]

7 tips for virtual onboarding

If I had asked any of my CEO clients 15 weeks ago whether they would recruit and onboard a director virtually, they would have laughed. How times change because in our recent survey 29% of our respondents said that they would do exactly this…and indeed over recent times, theory has become the reality.  As ever, […]

Why understanding emotional motivation is the key to post COVID business success

emotion in choice

This is a guest blog by friend of ORESA Andy Brent. Andy is an experienced board director and business growth specialist. He is the co-founder of Think Again Growth and the author of ‘The Growth Director’s Secret’, published by Bloomsbury. He has 30 years’ experience in senior marketing and strategy roles in the UK, Europe and […]

Essential Pre-Boarding Tips To Improve Hiring

preboarding staff

Executive recruitment of promising new leaders typically has good companies focussing on the onboarding process, but amazing companies pre-board as well. Pre-board I hear you ask, what is this? For us, pre-boarding is a proactive strategic approach to assimilating your new employee well before their first day in the office (if offices still exist). It […]

Navigating the New Normal

This is the first of ORESA’s pulse surveys, designed to provide UK leaders with insight into how peers are feeling, adapting their thinking, and evolving their strategies. Our intention is to chart the changing dynamics as business leaders of SMEs, fast track and blue chip companies navigate their path out of survive and into thrive. […]

10 tips for work-family balance when working remotely

work-family balance

Working from home for many of us has been the norm for a long time. Meetings in the office, conferences, travel and business dinners, were possible by the ability to focus when at home. Monday 23rd March 2020 was, therefore, a nuclear level shock to the system. It wasn’t that we were now all working […]

How to recruit remotely: 10 tips from expert headhunters

HR consulting remote jobs could feel foreign to you. Making an offer without ever having met the person face to face seems like a strange idea at first but then so does having a team meeting hosted from a colleagues bedroom as their cat rests on their laptop and children are singing in the lounge […]

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