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OtherIs Your Organisation Sitting on the Same Leadership Gap? Five Questions Worth Asking
Brentwood Borough Council and Rochford District Council didn't set out to write a case study. They set out to solve a specific, familiar problem: frontline supervisors who had earned their authority through years of doing the job, but had never been formally trained to lead people. It's a problem so common in local authorities and housing associations that it rarely gets flagged as urgent. It shows up quietly, as inconsistency rather than crisis. A policy applied one way by one supervisor and differently by another. A difficult conversation avoided rather than had. A standard that slips slightly because no one is quite sure whose job it is to hold the line.
OtherFrom Depot Floor to Boardroom: How We Built a Leadership Programme Two Councils Actually Wanted to Attend
When Brentwood Borough Council and Rochford District Council came to Acudemy, they weren't looking for another off-the-shelf leadership course. They had already tried the market and found it wanting.
OtherWhy "they knew what they were getting into" is costing you good people
We delivered a leadership programme recently for a healthcare organisation dealing with high turnover in its supervisory layer. When we asked managers what support they'd received when they were first promoted, the most common answer was: none. "I just watched how my manager did it and tried to copy that."
OtherThe best driver doesn't always make the best manager. We keep forgetting that.
A few years ago, we ran a management essentials programme for a logistics company in the Midlands. The new cohort of team leaders were, almost without exception, their best operational people — promoted because they delivered. Within six months, two had resigned and a third had been quietly moved back to an individual role. Not because they weren't talented. Because nobody had ever shown them what managing people actually involves.
OtherPayroll Compliance in 2026: Three Areas Where Teams Still Get Caught Out
Payroll rarely goes wrong with a bang. It usually slips quietly. A deadline gets missed because approvals come in late. A pay element is added but nobody checks the knock-on effect. Holiday pay is calculated the way it always has been, until one employee queries it and suddenly it becomes a bigger issue.
OtherSage Payroll in 2026: Why “the system will handle it” is still the fastest route to payroll stress
If you use Sage Payroll, you already have a strong system. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most payroll mistakes don’t happen because Sage is wrong. They happen because the set-up, the process, and the checks around Sage aren’t tight enough.
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