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 <div data-pmr-editable="" class="medium-editor-insert-plugin">Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons saw Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer cross swords once more over the coronavirus test and trace system, while chancellor Rishi Sunak is understood to be considering his options to replace the furlough scheme when it ends on October 31. Meanwhile, CNC Property Fund Management managing director, Robert Locker, encourages leaders and employees to question the status quo and move away from blind adherence to established systems to help augment real knowledge. Leadership in Focus<a href="http://www.cncpfm.co.uk/">CNC Property Fund Management</a> is a business with a long and varied history. Starting out in the East End of London as part of a confectionary company, it has now grown into a property-based asset management and advisory firm. Robert Locker came on board in the 1980s, when the business was known as CNC Property PLC, guiding the firm through financial hardship in the 1990s, during which time his responsibilities in asset management increased.Following this period, the business was able to grow and expand, with Locker and his colleagues purchasing the company in 2007. To date, it provides assistance for a range of commercial properties, including accounting and general asset management.However, with over 35 years of operational exposure as an asset manager of commercial property behind him, Locker is concerned that real knowledge in the industry is being eroded and replaced by generalisation and blind adherence to existing systems. It is his view that leaders in the sector must take a stand to address the problem, and CNC Property Fund Management has sought to do exactly that in its own methods.<a href="https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk/organisations/c-n-c-property-fund-management">Writing in The Parliamentary Review</a>, Locker said: “The inclination of any individual to question the status quo is being held back as conformity grows. Compliance to systems has bred complacency in analysis and a lack of common sense. Mistakes are reinforced by management structures that discourage dissent or criticism.“As we create more internal systems to cope with these issues, the burden on individual employees is growing. Inadequate training and commercial work experience, particularly among the younger generation, has led to a superficial approach to problem solving. The failure to deal with a problem at its source inevitably creates considerable delays. In the property industry, the most obvious example is the planning process. Across the UK, it can prove extremely slow even for non-contentious schemes. It would be wrong, however, to suggest that this is an isolated area of frustration.”As a means of combatting the problem in their own way, Locker explained how his business encourages its workers to take on their own leadership and think beyond the work which they are involved in.He said: “Planners happen to work in a field of wide exposure. I believe that planning is simply representative of numerous systems that often deliver inadequate outcomes. We try to encourage our employees to think for themselves. They are encouraged to think beyond the work with which they are involved. We do have systems in place, but they are straightforward and always open to challenge.”A key element of this approach, as Locker elaborated, is to avoid having a blame culture embedded within the business and allow employees to learn from the mistakes that they do happen to make in order to develop and improve, particularly given that they are tasked with responsibility at an early stage.“We are not overly critical of mistakes unless they are repeated or not corrected where possible. People learn more from their mistakes than they do by conforming to a process and being instructed what to do. As a matter of course, we try to give responsibility at an early stage.”While a smaller company like CNC Property Fund Management is able to operate in this manner, Locker does remain concerned that larger and more inherently system sensitive companies may find it more difficult to be flexible in their approach and address the problem.Locker explained: “I feel that larger organisations are inherently system sensitive and have ingrained working methodologies that can often be detrimental in terms of overall productivity.”Leadership Today<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/23/boris-johnson-new-lockdown-rules-update-brexit-news-latest/">Prime minister Boris Johnson</a> has defended his government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic as he and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer clashed on testing once more during Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions.Sir Keir said that the PM was “losing control” of the issue and “losing control of the virus”, accusing him of being “really out of touch with what families were experiencing when trying to get coronavirus tests for children who are displaying symptoms associated with the disease.The Labour leader added: "Health measures and economic measures are dangerously out of sync."Johnson told MPs that it was an “epidemical fact” that Covid-19 spreads from person to person, adding that testing capacity was now “at a record high”.Johnson said: "He [Sir Keir] knows we are doing our level best to get every child a test who has symptoms and 99.9 per cent of schools are back in spite of all his attempts to sow doubt in the summer".The PM condemned what he called a “continual attack” on the testing system and on test and trace chief Dido Harding by Labour, telling the Commons that Sir Keir should stop criticising the testing system “from the side-lines” to help “encourage people to believe in it.”Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54264689">chancellor Rishi Sunak</a> is reportedly weighing up his options to replace the furlough scheme when it winds down at the end of next month.During Wednesday’s session in the Commons, Sir Keir and the SNP’s leader in Westminster Ian Blackford pressured the PM to take action to prevent a “tsunami” of redundancies.Sir Keir said: "The CBI, the TUC, the Federation of Small Business, the British Chamber of Commerce and the governor of the Bank of England are all calling on the PM to stop and rethink and don't withdraw furlough."We have saying it for months. When is the prime minister finally going to act?"Blackford told the chamber that 60,000 Scottish workers would be “sold onto the scrapheap” if the furlough scheme is not extended or replaced.Johnson’s reply was that the chancellor was already at work on “creative and imaginative” solutions.One of the options being considered is understood to be a salary top-up scheme, similar to those provided by the French and German governments, which would allow employers to reduce the hours employees work while keeping their roles intact, with the government then topping up their lost wages.Johnson ruled out an “indefinite extension” to the furlough scheme but reassured that further support measures were being considered.He said: "That is why we are looking at a massive package of investment in jobs and growth in the short, medium and long term."In addition to the package I set out yesterday, there will be creative and imaginative measures from the chancellor to help people through this crisis."<div class="medium-insert-embeds">
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Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons saw Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer cross swords once more over the coronavirus test and trace system, while chancellor Rishi Sunak is understood to be considering his options to replace the furlough scheme when it ends on October 31. Meanwhile, CNC Property Fund Management managing director, Robert Locker, encourages leaders and employees to question the status quo and move away from blind adherence to established systems to help augment real knowledge.

CNC Property Fund Management MD encourages move away from blind compliance as PM defends government’s handling of Covid-19 pandemic

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 <div data-pmr-editable="" class="medium-editor-insert-plugin">All the major newspapers are leading with reports of Boris Johnson’s historic speech to the nation last night. Meanwhile, Dunstaffnage Marina have leant their support to the #RespectTheDestination campaign. Leadership in FocusDunstaffnage Marina, on the west coast of Scotland, has backed the <a href="https://dunstaffnagemarina.co.uk/good-advice-from-british-marine/">#RespectTheDestination</a> campaign launched by Sail Scotland, RYA Scotland, British Marine Scotland and Wild Scotland.&nbsp;The campaign, which is targeted at leisure and commercial boaters, aims to remind them of the differing arrangements, levels of service and local access controls that are in place at various popular boating destinations. The key messages of the campaign are to plan ahead (and check that the destination is open and what reductions are to be expected compared to normal), arrive prepared (and only with prior approval and allocation of a berth) and think local (be mindful that safety procedures may differ from one place to the next and be prepared to follow the rules accordingly. Also consider wearing a facemark and gloves to minimise the risk of contamination). Dunstaffnage Marina offers summer and winter facilities with 250 fully serviced berths for yachts, superyachts or motor vessels. The stunning location provides excellent access to Scotland’s West Coast and Island sailing.Writing in <a href="https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk/organisations/dunstaffnage-marina">The Parliamentary Review</a>, CEO Neil McLauchlan said: ‘Apart from possessing some of the best sailing grounds in the world, according to official studies, the west of Scotland offers an exciting opportunity for these large vessels to enjoy the countryside and sailing routes without some of the security issues that exist in other parts of the world.‘Our marina has become a remarkable success story, and has attracted sailing yachts from all around the world.’Leadership Today All the majors papers are leading this morning with reports of Boris Johnson’s speech to the nation last night. The Telegraph focuses on his declaration that ‘<a href="http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/362/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/362/pub/362/page/2/article/84643">the fight against Covid is by no means over</a>’ while <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-speech-follow-new-coronavirus-rules-or-face-second-lockdown-c3z2wnl8x">The Times</a> alights on his assertion that this is ‘a struggle humanity will win.’&nbsp;Weighing up the difficult balance between health and the economy, Times columnist and Tory peer <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-has-undercooked-his-covid-plan-mh0rbw0rb">Daniel Finklestein</a> said, ‘I believe this risk is still the right one to take. Covid-19 is a deadly disease for older people and can be debilitating for anyone who survives it. If we leave it to get out of control, a very large number will get it very quickly and the number of excess deaths will be very high indeed.‘There is just enough optimism about the development of vaccines and treatments by the first half of next year to make it worthwhile waiting, despite all the costs involved. ‘Where I’m less convinced the government has got it right is its belief that yesterday’s announcement was enough.‘Six months more of the sort of restrictions announced yesterday is a very depressing prospect. But I think we are more likely to end up feeling that yesterday the prime minister undercooked the policy rather than overcooked it.’In The Telegraph, associate editor <a href="https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/362/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/362/pub/362/page/14/article/84778">Camilla Tominey</a> summed up the difficulty gripping the PM and the government: ‘For whatever decisions he takes next, he knows he faces a backlash, either from those who think he has gone too far, or those who think he has not gone far enough.’&nbsp;Leadership in History On this day in 1862, <a href="https://www.onthisday.com/people/otto-von-bismarck">Otto von Bismarck</a> was appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I. He would go on to unify most of the German states into a German Empire and would later become the first chancellor of Germany.&nbsp;<div class="medium-insert-embeds">
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All the major newspapers are leading with reports of Boris Johnson’s historic speech to the nation last night. Meanwhile, Dunstaffnage Marina have leant their support to the #RespectTheDestination campaign.

PM orders greater restrictions as Dunstaffnage Marina backs #RespectTheDestination campaign 

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 <div data-pmr-editable="" class="medium-editor-insert-plugin">One of the central issues that is causing a lack of sleep for business leaders ahead of Brexit’s full enactment at the end of the year is the effect that it will have on imports and exports to and from Europe if a free trade deal cannot be agreed with the EU. Michael Dixon, operations director of cleaning and maintenance services provider, <a href="https://cleangreenservices.co.uk/">Clean Green Services</a>, is one executive who shares these concerns, specifically around the import of raw materials which, if affected, will have cost implications for his firm.While the trade negotiations remain at a standoff over key issues such as fisheries and state aid, the government has recently moved to put a failsafe in place should trade negotiations fail, via the controversial <a href="https://services.parliament.uk/Bills/2019-21/unitedkingdominternalmarket/documents.html">Internal Market Bill</a> which will give the government the power to override the Northern Ireland Protocol element of the Withdrawal Agreement.Of course, just as the legislation will preserve the integrity of the UK and allow Northern Ireland unfettered access to the internal UK market, it asks a whole new question of what then will become of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and indeed the Northern Ireland peace process.These circumstances have once more raised concerns about what may become of the border on the island of Ireland, which Dixon had hoped would be solved by the Withdrawal Agreement struck between the government and the bloc last year.<a href="https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk/organisations/cleangreen">Writing in The Parliamentary Review</a>, Clean Green operations Dixon said: “One of the main problems for our production arm is the cost of importing raw materials. One of the main resources we import is silicon, which is susceptible to drastic fluctuations in price. Brexit could deepen these issues.“We own the trademark which allows us to export our products to Europe, and restricted, or at least more difficult, borders between European nations could significantly damage our future growth. Thus, we are looking to base a company in the Republic of Ireland and circumvent Britain’s exit from the European Union. However, this plan of action is still susceptible to the ongoing disputes over the nature of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.”The Internal Market Bill has now <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/22/boris-johnson-wins-crucial-vote-oninternal-market-bill-mps/">cleared the committee stage</a> in the House of Commons, after an amendment tabled by the Government to head off a Conservative rebellion was accepted without the need for a vote.Prime minister Boris Johnson’s <a href="https://www.leaderscouncil.co.uk/news/pm-reaches-compromise-with-brexit-bill-rebels-according-to-reports">concession</a> to rebel MPs ensured that the legislation was to reworded, so that the government must receive the consent of MPs in a vote in Parliament before it can invoke any of the powers in the bill and break international law by reneging on the Withdrawal Agreement.<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/22/boris-johnson-wins-crucial-vote-oninternal-market-bill-mps/">The Telegraph</a> reports that although the bill will return to the Commons next week, ministers will delay its final stages in the House of Lords until after an EU summit in October, where it is hoped that a free trade deal will be agreed. This means that it is unlikely to return to the Commons until December, shortly before the post-Brexit transition period is due to lapse at the end of the year.It is hoped that this extension of the timetable for the legislation will deescalate the row with the EU, while the bill can be used as leverage in the final stages of the negotiations.Notably, the compromise has been insufficient to win over <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/21/theresa-may-says-cannot-support-boris-johnsons-internal-market/">former prime minister Theresa May</a>, who has said that she will remain opposed to the bill when it does eventually come back before MPs.The ex-PM accused Johnson of behaving “recklessly and irresponsibly” and warned that the compromise did not go far enough.Speaking in the Commons this week before the bill cleared the committee hurdle, May said: “It makes no difference as to whether a decision to break international law is taken by a minister or by this Parliament - it is still a decision to break international law."I cannot emphasise how concerned I am that a Conservative government is willing to go back on its word, to break an international agreement signed in good faith and to break international law."One of the great strengths we have as a country is our commitment to the rule of law and this will have been damaged. Our reputation as a country that stands by its word will have been tarnished, and the willingness of other countries to trust the United Kingdom and its values will have been reduced. So much for global Britain."May also feared that the government’s decision to press ahead with the bill would impact the trade negotiations with the EU, adding: "The Conservative Party upholds the rule of law, it's one of our values, one of our characteristics, yet we're being asked to tear up that principle and throw away that value.”Johnson has insisted that the legislation remains crucial to allow the free flow of food between Great Britain and Northern Ireland if the UK does leave the EU without a free trade deal.<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/22/boris-johnson-wins-crucial-vote-oninternal-market-bill-mps/">In response to the latest developments</a>, Germany has demanded that the UK stop playing “games” with the bloc if it wishes to agree a deal in the coming weeks, while France and Ireland have threatened legal action if Westminster does go back on the Withdrawal Agreement.Germany’s Europe minister Michael Roth said: "We are really really disappointed about the results of the negotiations so far. Please dear friends in London stop the games. Time is running out.“We're all standing together. We cannot allow ourselves to be divided. And we're certainly right up behind Ireland.”In the background, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54260470">chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove</a>, the minister in charge of planning for a no deal scenario, has written to logistics companies and asked them to be ready for disruption to imports and exports as a “reasonable worst case scenario” when the transition period ends, including the likelihood of "maximum queues of 7,000 port bound trucks in Kent and associated maximum delays of up to two days".While the row over the legislation goes on and trade negotiations press ahead in the background, businesses such as Clean Green Services are left to nervously sit on their hands for the outcome.&nbsp;Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@shanerounce">Shane Rounce</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a></div>

One of the central issues that is causing a lack of sleep for business leaders ahead of Brexit’s full enactment at the end of the year is the effect that it will have on imports and exports to and from Europe if a free trade deal cannot be agreed with the EU. Michael Dixon, operations director of cleaning and maintenance services provider, Clean Green Services, is one executive who shares these concerns, specifically around the import of raw materials which, if affected, will have cost implications for his firm.

Clean Green Services one of many businesses facing a nervous wait as Internal Market Bill clears committee stage

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 <div data-pmr-editable="" class="medium-editor-insert-plugin">In his first speech to the Labour Party Conference as its leader, Sir Keir Starmer has promised to win back the trust of voters and urged the party to “get serious about winning”. Meanwhile, Anoma Jayawickrema, director of Sandhurst-based florist, Lady Flora, appeared on the Leaders Council podcast to champion her leadership model, which she likened to that of a parent rather than a boss.Leadership in Focus<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hZSwgNlm-0&amp;feature=youtu.be">Sitting down with the Leaders Council’s Matthew O’Neill,</a> Jayawickrema shared her view that good leaders should not impose their leadership upon others and make it clear that they are a leader or figure of authority.Elaborating on her opinion, Jayawickrema said: “I feel a good leader does not make others feel that they are the leader. One of the best qualities a leader should embody is that of a mother. A mother does not act as a leader to their children, they facilitate, they do not lead as such.“I tend to take the approach of being a parental figure to my staff and empower them to do things rather than commanding them. You are then helping them to manifest their own inner strength rather than imposing yourself on them.”Providing an example of this leadership strategy in action, Jayawickrema added: “Leadership in my business is very collaborative. We talk a lot and have recently worked together on starting a letterbox delivery service through the Covid-19 pandemic. I did not decide in my capacity as leader that this would be the direction we would go in and order everyone to get on board. Instead, we had a discussion to help build the idea up, decide what we could offer and maximise the offering through all of our contributions, and I encouraged my staff to share their ideas and empower them.”Reflecting on the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact it has had on the business, Jayawickrema revealed that she has already seen sweeping changes within the sector.“We were closed for three months following the initial lockdown in March and reopened in mid-June. Some of our staff were still on furlough as of August and we have found that we do not have many corporate clients coming in anymore given the fact that a lot of office-based businesses are still working from home.“It has already changed our industry massively. Pretty much all our sales are now online because of the lack of High Street footfall. Five to ten per cent of our sales are now cash, with card and online purchasing now dominating not just in our store, but across the sector.”<a href="https://www.leaderscouncil.co.uk/news/managing-through-covid-19-has-been-all-about-adapting-and-overcoming-for-cyca-as-pm-outlines-new-measures">The prime minister’s statement to the Commons on Tuesday</a> will have put paid to any hopes that the industry had of High Street footfall increasing over the coming weeks, as the government reversed its guidance to once more begin instructing office workers to work from home wherever possible. Florists, along with many other city and town centre businesses relying on passing commuters for trade, may now be left facing a challenging winter period.Leadership TodaySir Keir Starmer has said that the Labour Party will work to win back voters’ trust and must “get serious about winning” as he made his first speech to the party conference as leader.In the speech, which was broadcast online from a nigh empty room in Doncaster after the planned party conference in Liverpool was cancelled, Sir Keir said that prime minister Boris Johnson was “not up to the job” of running the country and criticised his “serial incompetence” in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.He said: "It makes me angry that, just when the country needs leadership, we get serial incompetence.”Conceding that Labour had deservedly been defeated in the 2019 general election by the Conservatives and that the party had to be “brutally honest” with itself, Sir Keir called on voters to “take another look” at Labour.“We are under new leadership”, he said.Calling on voters in Labour’s traditional heartlands who had voted Conservative in 2019, Sir Keir assured that the Labour Party “loves this country as you do”.He added: "When you lose an election in a democracy you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them: 'what were you thinking?'."Sir Keir then emphasised that Labour becoming a “competent, credible Opposition” was “not enough”, vowing that “never again will Labour go into an election not being trusted on national security, with your job, with your community and with your money. That's what being under new leadership means.”The Holborn and St Pancras MP then promised that Labour’s policies for the next general election “will sound like the future arriving” and “won’t sound like anything you’ve heard before”.Sir Keir used the address to <a href="https://www.leaderscouncil.co.uk/news/arc-coachworks-managing-director-discusses-skills-gap-as-concerns-over-mass-unemployment-rise">reiterate calls</a> for “properly funded” public services and investment in skills and training, while calling for action to curb climate change and close gaps in education inequalities.The Labour leader also promised that he would work “hand-in-hand” with the private sector and trade unions to generate “high quality jobs”.Sir Keir was also clear that he sought to leave the Brexit debate firmly in the past, and that Labour will not be a party that “keeps banging on about Europe”.He declared: “Let me absolutely clear, the debate between Leave and Remain is over”, before calling on the PM to agree a trade deal with the EU or “fail Britain”.On the future of the Union, Sir Keir said that his party must “make the case much more persuasively that we achieve more together than we do alone to stop the [Scottish] Nationalists ripping our country apart by design, and to stop the Tories dismantling it by neglect”.<div class="medium-insert-embeds">
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In his first speech to the Labour Party Conference as its leader, Sir Keir Starmer has promised to win back the trust of voters and urged the party to “get serious about winning”. Meanwhile, Anoma Jayawickrema, director of Sandhurst-based florist, Lady Flora, appeared on the Leaders Council podcast to champion her leadership model, which she likened to that of a parent rather than a boss.

Lady Flora director discusses her motherly attitude to leadership as Labour leader vows to win back trust

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