Would you like to motivate your team to be more productive? Is it your job to develop their skills? And do effective one-to-ones? If you lead or manage people, or develop others as a trainer, I’ve got great ideas you could use to make your team more productive. I’ve spent my career helping others develop their… Read more
Do you zone in and out when listening?
Listening is always relevant. And it’s a natural human ability. We hear and listen before we learn to speak after all. But, as I heard someone say on the BBC, although listening is NATURAL for humans, it is not NORMAL. 7 reasons to listen better Because people share more when they are listened to, so you learn… Read more
Is your English foreigner-UNfriendly?
Did you know that some business people abroad don’t want to do business with Brits because we don’t speak clearly? And this isn’t the football hooligan Brit, it’s the nicely spoken professional. I’ve heard this before but today it cropped up again in a comment on one of my recent blogs about accents. It came… Read more
Innovation + Communication = Business Success
I was recently a judge in the Oxfordshire finals of the Young Enterprise schools’ competition. What a great preparation for the workplace. Each school competing has a team of teenage volunteers, aged from 15-17 usually, who start and run their own company, selling a product or service for the 9 months of the school year…. Read more
Generation Y and Why We Don’t Need to Worry
I recently attended a workshop on how to manage Generation Y. The basic premise being that those in the 20-30 age-bracket have been brought up on video games and networking websites so they are motivated by a different management style to the rest of the workforce. The Gist for Gen Y Gen Y are motivated… Read more
