While designing my Practical Appreciative Inquiry online course pilot (now concluded, but email me if you are interested in the full-featured course that I’ll be launching soon), I auditioned various virtual whiteboard tools for online collaboration. These can be very…
My well-reviewed little ebook Practical NLP: How to use NLP principles to improve your life and work, even if you’re not NLP trained is FREE today, tomorrow and Sunday! (8-10 February 2019) “I REALLY enjoyed this book! I’ve always had an interest…
As I write, it’s ‘Fat Cat Friday‘ in the UK. January 4th the day when the chief executives of FTSE 100 companies have already earned as much as the average salary of their workers. Acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari talks…
A series of experiments at Harvard Business School by Michael Norton, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely, found that people value products more when they have put work into assembling them. In one experiment, participants each assembled an item of IKEA…
Coaching Works – But What Kind Of Coaching? It’s fairly well established that coaching works. For example, a meta-analysis of studies of workplace coaching in 2015 shows a strong positive effect on individual performance, and smaller but still positive effects on…
A study published in the Harvard Business Review by Leadership professor Julia Milner and management consultant Trenton Milner has revealed that most executives don’t really know what coaching is. It’s worth looking at what experts generally define as coaching. These descriptions…
I’m pleased to announce a new Practical Appreciative Inquiry facilitator training in Hackney, London, on 8-9 October 2018! Click here for full details and how to book. It’s a joint venture with Hackney CVS, so it’s a rare opportunity to…
Understanding the difference between First- and Second-Order Change in organisations, and how to recognise when each is appropriate One reason that so many organisational change initiatives fail is that the leaders and consultants involved don’t recognise the difference between ‘first-order’…
“Joy is not a luxury that you can tack on when you’ve sorted everything out, joy is how you will sort out your problems” – Caitlin Moran
Anyone who runs emotional intelligence training courses for managers will recognise the type. The guy (and it usually is a guy) who has been sent on the course by his boss because, basically, he has the emotional intelligence of a…
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