Morale - Keeping the morale high ground

Mark Davies, a speaker at this year's Biba conference in Manchester, explains how helping your staff's sense of wellbeing can aid your business through challenging times

There's a strategy game in which lots of different managers are in a hot air balloon that is losing height. The objective of the game is to decide which of the managers should be ejected to save everyone else based on whose skills are the most important for survival. Welcome to 2009 and a version of that game that is taking place right now as business leaders manage organisations in the recession.

Managing in a recession is daunting, yet managing organisations is a tough job no matter what the