Team Talk
Heroine or Hypocrite?
If you are in a leadership role, whether in public life or in business, people are watching you and forming an opinion. There isn’t anything
10th September 2025
Hear about what’s happening at Involvement, news from our divisions and regular thoughts from Arjen, our CEO.
Team Talk is a weekly column that offers a clear-eyed, people-first perspective on what it takes to run and grow a team-led business today.
Written using experiences from Involvement, a nationally recognised SME, it explores the real issues shaping our work: from productivity challenges and policy shifts to the evolving role of leadership, technology, and team culture. It’s a space to reflect, to provoke thought, and to champion the often overlooked power of small businesses and the people who drive them.
If you are in a leadership role, whether in public life or in business, people are watching you and forming an opinion. There isn’t anything
According to UCAS, recent studies of what organisations want from young people entering work are indicating, in general, a move to valuing “soft” skills or
In the introduction to Team Talk last week, I worried about how small and medium-sized businesses across the spectrum are falling behind, despite employing the
Welcome Welcome to the very first edition of Team Talk! Team Talk will be a weekly piece by myself, Arjen Cooper-Rolfe (CEO at Involvement) that
For a business like us that strives every day to be the best for our colleagues and customers, this is like reaching the summit of
Involvement really is a life style, a way of thinking and for me a life changer! These are the kind words of a colleague
Making people better. It’s a prescription for company health. Coaching is our next big differentiator as a business. Even more than big and
That’s a bit of a strong statement from someone who runs a proudly ‘team-led’ business! And no offence is intended to the people overseeing
With the Euros in full flow, the national discussion turns to what businesses struggle with every single day. How do we create a winning team?
What politicians could learn from good businesses. It wasn’t until this election was called that I started thinking about the way we do things