Sep 24, 2015 | Management Skills
At last! Could the end finally be in sight for that annual ritual dreaded by both managers and staff: the Annual Appraisal? You know the one: the meeting you both hope will be over quickly, in which the manager loads up her gun with lots of surprise feedback ready...
Aug 21, 2015 | Communication, Life Skills
Last week I learnt that yet another nail has been banged into the coffin of human society as we currently know it. The thin end of a very big wedge has just been inserted into the way we communicate. Old farts such as myself fear this one will bring us a step closer...
Jul 15, 2015 | Leadership Skills, Negotiations
The Greek government has until Wednesday night to approve a set of measures which appear to this simple non-financier outsider to be wholly unreasonable and unworkable, otherwise it gets shown the Grexit door and European unity is a thing of the past. Millions of...
Nov 13, 2014 | Leadership Skills, Management Skills
As Christmas approaches and stores fill up with scary amounts of extra stock that they hope will all magically vanish by Christmas Eve, I find myself thinking about the time when I was put in charge of stock ordering for a major business. They delegated to me too...
Jan 27, 2014 | Communication, Personal Development
Last week I met someone who I think I can safely say was one of the most negative people I have ever met. I spent much of a day with him during one of our Musikscool events. He was 15: polite, well dressed, articulate, and with an outlook on life which shocked me so...
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