Leadership in 2020: why mindset, not skill set, is holding leaders back
Today’s constantly evolving business landscape requires leaders who can flex their style to suit the situation.
The adventure mindset: why adventure should be a key component of your career
Adopting a bit of the Indiana Jones adventurer mentality can actually be good for your professional development.
Seven everyday mindfulness practices to enhance your wellbeing
Everyday ways to take care of your wellbeing.
Holistic learning: how to engage the heart in learning
How engaging learners’ emotions can aid learning transfer.
New year, same you: why aren’t you sticking to your new year’s resolutions?
Why do so few of us manage to keep those New Year’s resolutions?
Who owns your organisation’s objectives?
One of my favourite bits of the year is getting the team together for our annual review and strategic planning. In recent years, we’ve combined this with our Christmas party, which provides a nice celebratory climax to proceedings. The team is spread between Cumbria, Gloucestershire, Cornwall and Devon, so these events provide a priceless opportunity […]
Learning on the edge: get out of your comfort zone!
To be an effective leader, you need to leave your comfort zone.
Informal learning: critically important, but neglected
Informal learning can be a powerful thing, but how can we learn to harness it in the workplace?
Lest We Forget
I think a common misconception many trainers share is the idea that their role is simply to pass on their knowledge, experience and expertise to others. In my opinion, it’s not; it’s about facilitating learning, which is a very different thing. It’s different because knowledge alone does not change behaviour. To prove this point, I […]
Leadership development: why aren’t people’s personal needs being met at work?
Three ways to ensure employees’ needs are being met.
Mindfulness for trainers: mindful speech
Approaching other people’s problems requires the skill of mindful speaking.
Leadership: how to have a personal impact and communicate better
Three key questions to give your leadership the ‘wow’ factor.
What is the identity of learning in your organisation?
Within an organisation, the identity of a department is connected to its sphere of influence and the impact the department has on others. The department’s identity encompasses how they are perceived internally at all levels. Why is this important for learning functions? The nature of the learning department means they need to collaborate with and […]
Driving Climate Change
One of the last things I did before setting off on holiday a few weeks ago was pay the bill that would ensure that, to all intents and purposes, Glasstap will be carbon neutral for the next 12 months. As before, we’ve worked with CO2balance to calculate our carbon usage and then offset this with investments […]
Mindfulness for trainers: how to become a mindful eater
In part ten, Kay Buckby explains why training professionals neglect their diet at work.
The Most Dangerous Coaching Question
The entire self-help industry is based on a simple question: “What do you want?” With this one question, coaches and life transformation gurus conjure up your wildest dreams, innermost desires and best laid plans. And what you don’t realise is that this one question is precisely what prevents you from achieving those dreams. In fact, […]
Raising Awareness – with Granny’s Mixing Bowl!
We’ve recently returned from driving around beautiful France. One of the highlights of our holiday was the two days we spent with friends in Bozel, high in the French Alps. Our friends live in a lovely home that they’ve remodelled using reclaimed and re-purposed materials, and it is utterly charming. A wall formed from old pallets […]
Personal development: stop procrastinating and start doing
We are all prone to procrastination in various forms but I believe that the way we live and work now has only made this tendency stronger and easier. What is procrastinating anyway? It’s actually a kind of weird self-regulating failure and although most of us are aware that we procrastinate, we can’t seem to stop […]
How your personal style makes an impact on your brand
As training professionals, most readers here will understand the impact of first impressions. When entering a room of learners or meeting a prospective client, you’ve got a very short time in which to win them over. In fact, research suggests that first impressions are made in just seven seconds. Within that time, people have already […]
Training mental wellbeing
Do you pride yourself in having an open, caring organisation? Does employee welfare sit high in your priority list alongside a recognition that the more your people feel respected and engaged, the better the outcome not only for them but also for the business? Would it therefore surprise you to learn that 55% of workers […]
