Seven everyday mindfulness practices to enhance your wellbeing
Everyday ways to take care of your wellbeing.
VIDEO: Changing course in difficult situations
Recognising failure and moving on can be tough, but it’s also a great learning opportunity.
In-house team manager coaching
Hi there! I please need some advice on in-house coaching, as this is something we are looking to roll out (GROW model). What in-session coaching activities can I use with a customer services team manager to improve manager performance, and ultimately their teams performance? Also what out of session activities would you suggest? If there […]
Mindfulness for trainers: the value of kindness
Kindness is a powerful thing, especially in a work setting.
Employee experience: the value of feeling valued
Show your people what they’re worth.
The third secret of accelerated learning: design with variety in mind
Variety is the spice of life when it comes to learning design.
VIDEO: how to prepare for difficult conversations
How to avoid firing off emails in the heat of the moment.
Leadership: how to become an emotionally intelligent leader
Seven emotional skill sets all leaders need to cultivate
Sales Training
Hi, does anyone know what a sales funtion would spends on the following: – Sales Certification per person annually – Learning and development per person annually We are trying to make a business case and would be great to have some benchmark data. Many thanks, Andrew Hi, does anyone know what a sales funtion would […]
Graduate skills gap: nurturing business skills in young employees
For years now the headlines have shouted out that young people are not ready for the world of work. A British Chambers of Commerce survey said “young people need more support to make transition from education to work”. The statistics are scary: 88% of businesses think school leavers are unprepared for the workplace. 54% think graduates […]
Defining the skills gap: what can you actually do?
From Barking to Bangladesh, there is a skills gap. Quite literally at opposite ends of the world and everywhere in between there is a lack in crucial skills for employability and the workplace in general. I’m not talking about CV writing and interview technique – those are a given and if you don’t have these you’re […]
The second secret of accelerated learning: facilitate don’t train
Last time we looked at business focused and learner centred objectives, the most important of the five secrets. It’s the most important because without it, there is no focus, engagement or follow up. This time, we’ll look at the second of the five secrets, ‘facilitate don’t train’. At the time of first publishing these five […]
Five ways to make coaching work for your organisation
Are you and the staff in your organisation always busy, with lots to do with little time? Do you want to be your best, but have little ‘headspace’ to think and plan? Working alongside a coach can provide the time and space you need to focus on your priorities and can be life changing. As […]
Closing the knowing/doing gap: how to use neuroscience to apply learning on the job
Last year we were asked to design and deliver a leadership programme for a large global organisation. The programme had been running for a number of years with a different partner and the client told us that participants gave really good feedback on the event, but no actual change in behaviour had occurred. Our role […]
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 […]
VIDEO: how to set challenging goals
“I lived in Hong Kong for ten years, and while I was there I set up a dragon boat team called The Sea Gods. We were a fun team, and we did a lot of drinking! We were a group of friends. When we started we just paddled, and over about just three or four years we got a […]
Leadership: the three top skills all leaders need
You are probably used to tapping into a variety of skills, techniques and competences to manage people, teams and get the most out of them. You probably have to learn quickly to develop and foster what you don’t have. Despite this, you may not have thought about these three critical skills that supercharge performance, productivity […]
The first secret of accelerated learning – finding the balance in priorities
In 2013, I developed my ‘five secrets of accelerated learning’. These ‘secrets’ as I call them, were the culmination of research into a fascinating area. This area had many contributors but, up until then, there was no one unifying model to cover everything we had learned about how to accelerate learning through an organisation. This […]
Leadership: ditching the cult of the individual and embracing ‘communityship’
In part one of this feature, I explained why leadership development programmes as they stand today are unfit for purpose. Very little has changed in their design and content since the last financial crisis, and yet today’s world is markedly different, even to those times just a decade ago. Below, we’ll look at how and […]
Mindfulness for trainers: noticing everyday experiences mindfully
This month, I am sharing a technique that has enriched my life, and my training practice. Sitting practice is powerful, but I love the Mindfulness for Life approach of bringing mindful awareness to everyday tasks, such as driving, washing up, and walking (I’ll cover mindful walking in a later blog). This month, I am sharing […]
