Colin McArdle

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How to create high performing legal teams

Colin McArdle: 12-Aug-2021 13:39:16

You can have the best service offering in the world, but if your team and organisation isn't up to scratch, you’re never going to deliver on your...

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How to reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction and make more money in the service industry with Lean

Colin McArdle: 11-Aug-2021 11:46:33

Lean has a long history in manufacturing, but over the last couple of decades, we’ve seen it increasingly applied to the service industry. 

Lean is...

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Are you giving your sales team the chance to succeed? – why poor processes can let businesses down

Colin McArdle: 01-Jul-2021 11:29:40

With a raft of technologies available enabling ‘click and buy’, selling services or products has never been easier. So why are we still experiencing...

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Time Consulting Group Appoints Head of Marketing

Colin McArdle: 01-Jul-2021 09:19:32

We're delighted to announce that Claudia De la Cruz has been appointed as Head of Marketing. Claudia has been with Time Consulting Group since...

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The Queen's Speech: Lessons for business on questioning tradition

Colin McArdle: 08-Jun-2021 16:36:42

The State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday 11 May 2021 marks the formal start of the parliamentary year and the Queen's Speech sets out the...

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A life in units (Part 4): ‘It’s just not cricket’ – fielding your strongest team

Colin McArdle: 08-Jun-2021 08:20:36

In the final part of our ‘life in units’ series, we look at the importance of understanding and planning around a team’s skills set.  We also...

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A life in units (Part 3): Too busy for help = too busy for change – Driving change in professional services

Colin McArdle: 01-Jun-2021 09:12:28

Albert Einstein has been credited with saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different...

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A life in units (Part 2): Top Gun: Managing your ‘Maverick’ – management challenges in the professional services sector

Colin McArdle: 25-May-2021 10:04:54

Sat on a beanbag watching ‘Top Gun’ on a glitchy VHS tape as a teenager, I didn’t appreciate the common management challenges sitting behind the...

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How a national high street estate agency used Lean diagnostics to create savings of £590K in eight weeks - A case study

Colin McArdle: 18-May-2021 14:52:53

Moving house can be one of life’s most stressful events. Even just renting a property, without the added complication of having to involve a...

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A life in units (Part 1): Driving revenue creation in the professional services sector

Colin McArdle: 18-May-2021 09:11:27

At the end of each day, I religiously look at my fitness tracker to see how many steps I’ve taken and whether I’ve hit the magic 10,000. Who set the...