Wellbeing is currently a major issue in businesses today and often part of governance policies. As well as the core responsibility of ensuring that your business staff are properly cared for, it makes commercial sense because staff performing at peak levels deliver superior performance.

What a bizarre thing to suggest, right? Everybody knows that you cannot get somebody else to do your golf swing. Anyone who has ever set a goal and achieved it will testify that you need to take responsibility for achieving the goal and then put in the effort. Standard stuff, nothing new there. So, if you want to improve your golf and your swing is wrong, you practice more, hire a coach perhaps, anything you think will help you improve. Handing your swing to somebody else to improve for you is just ludicrous.

The Annual Manufacturing Report 2017 (AMR), published by Hennik Research, reflects a surprisingly resilient mood among UK manufacturers; surprising that is to those who haven’t been paying attention. While many observers have predicted post-referendum disaster, manufacturers have been quick to capitalise on the benefits accruing from a pound that was revalued downwards sharply after the vote. Exports are up, order books are booming and jobs are plentiful.

The Prime Minister has formally launched the government’s latest x-point plan for the UK economy. This announcement sets out where thinking has got to on a new industrial strategy in a new green paper and will essentially fire the starting gun on a period of consultation with businesses.

After working with industrial and supply chain change projects for over 22 years, there is one constant that still irritates the life out of me. This is the acronym typical consultant methodology solution to how you should change people. The glamour methods that don't actually hit the spot, the costly programmes that leave people totally disillusioned and sceptical of why they are changing in the first place.