Lovely assignment this week with managers of training teams in health, fitness, hospitality and care. Here are the slides:
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Are you Soft Enough to be Creative?
Am needing to come up with a good idea fast here at the moment – and struggling.
It’s in a field I know little about, video-making, which is most of the problem. So straight after writing this, I’m back to the Continue reading
Happy New Oomph : Max Out Your Impact in 2012
Forget resolutions. An Oomph Project for yourself, where you plan for impact in 2012, is a much more fun way to swing into the New Year.
In ten days, I co-deliver a project helping people in a very specific context to up their global profile. Beefing up on this over the holidays, the Kindle’s just been brilliant at letting me leap Continue reading
The Guru is Dead! Long Live the Guru???
You spent how much on that programme? You need your head read!’
(Friends react as I reveal my spend on online self – improvement)
Using the excuse of research, the past 12 months I’ve immersed myself in various online learning courses and learning experiences. With some of them, as I hit the Pay Pal button I’ve known that seduction Continue reading
5 Thought Hacks To Grow Your Business (includes Mental Chicken quest)
Here’s the thing…
You’re just about keeping your business going in these lean times. You’re getting some business in – from well-established customers and clients maybe – but no growth. Everyone you speak to seems to say the same thing: ‘Things are very tight… and we’re just fire-fighting Continue reading
How to Kill those Presentation Nerves
Before
Conference organizers and presentation instructions can be confusing. The best guide to how you match who is in the audience, to what you know and care about, is the attendee list. Let it be your lodestar.
Your actual words don’t Continue reading
Should You Stop Being Nice?
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‘Wonderful post’
‘you are awesome’
‘so inspiring’
Lovely, isn’t it? Getting positive Continue reading
How to Beat those Back-to-Work Blues
It’s that time of year… summer over, and for some of us back to work where we don’t feel appreciated, rewarded or stretched enough. According to a recent report, a third of US workers feel like Continue reading
49 Ways to Make Brilliant Ideas Happen
Guesting on a workshop for students on a master’s programme this week. Here’s the gist of it:
Immersion
1. Immerse yourself in your subject – go Baptist
2. Look for Continue reading
6 Wise Women of the Web
I love the capacity of the web to convey what interesting individuals do. And when this is mixed with the folksy and personal, so much the better. We get a sense of the whole person.
Now in my humble view too, voices of our Monstrous Regiment of Women could do with greater projection all over the place (*feminist drum-roll sounds*). And especially online.
So here’s a small contribution to this cause, via description and links. Rather than corporate queens, these are quirky individuals, humanizing the web via their content and offering idea boutiques Continue reading
