10th May 2016
Driving along the stunning North Wales coast line, the sun was out (the shades were on!) as we excitedly chatting about what the day ahead had in store, we had that feeling it was going to be good!
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13th April 2016
We love sharing stories, as we believe they are a great way for others to learn with a smile. So when we came across this true story, it made us stop and think – so we thought we would share…
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29th March 2016
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Jayne works in a large technology based business, heading up the Design division and a team of 50. Like many other leaders in any given week she attends numerous meetings, which she says can vary in productivity and experience. We asked her to have a loaf about why this might be…
15th March 2016
One of the most exciting things about business today is that large and small organisations are playing in the same playground. The advent of the information age, along with rapid technological advancements, have given birth to a global marketplace where everyone is invited.
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23rd February 2016
This morning, I left the house late, kids were bundled out of the car (near thrown out)… and then I hit traffic! After a deep sigh, I let a car in the queue in front of me. Then something interesting happened – the car I had let in, let the car in front of them, and then the new joiner offered up space to a third car.
I smiled – one simple change in my behavior had created 2 other changes and I smiled a bigger smile when I started to wonder how many more would join our chain on the rush hour journey?!
Go on… create a chain-reaction-change today… along with a smile!
8th February 2016
Everyday we attend meetings with Clients and Colleagues, where we are trying to make a positive impact, right? But why is it that some people seem to easily command a room, whilst others are left floundering and getting tied up in knots? Do you want to know their secret? We do…
26th January 2016
I recently had the pleasure of seeing first hand what happens when a business makes a change and doesn’t bring its people along for the ride. Well, I say pleasure – it was actually a very painful experience, but it does a great job of illustrating why any business change needs to have people at its core.
1st December 2015
The old story goes that a world-weary professor silently walks into his lecture theatre with a large glass jar, and starts filling it with rocks. Once he has done this, he asks the class – “Is the jar full?”. The students see that the rocks have reached the top of the jar and respond – “Yes”.
The professor then produces a bag of pebbles and commences to pour it into the jar. The pebbles neatly fill the gaps between the rocks. Once again the professor asks – “Is the jar full?”, and once again the class responds – “Yes”. Read the rest of this entry »
11th November 2015
The saying goes something like this…
“Give a man a fish
and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish
and he’ll eat for a lifetime.”
This concept was used to great effect in the iconic Oxfam Advert in the 1990s.
The message was simple, yet brilliant… the starving people in Africa didn’t need a charitable handout that kept them one step away from the poverty line for the rest of their lives, dependent on foreign handouts forever. What they needed was the skills and training to work themselves out of poverty. Read the rest of this entry »
28th October 2015
Whilst watching Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen recently it got us thinking about the recipe he uses to help businesses make change happen and grow. We wanted to share the key ingredients we see him using, and we promise there won’t be any cursing on our menu!
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