On a recent ‘Making the Best Use of Your Time’ workshop, a key time waster identified was people not responding. There is nothing more frustrating than when you need an answer or information from someone  and they don’t reply. Persistence is important if you are going to get through the many hurdles of matching their [...]

At the Business Exchange meeting in Weymouth on June 24th, I gave a presentation on Igniting the Passion. Very often people say they are passionate about their business, and think that is enough. Hey, your competitors are passionate about their business too. You need to have a plan to capitalise on your passion to [...]

“The leader of the past knows how to tell; the leader of the future will know how to ask.” Peter Drucker
Today we ran a special workshop on Leading to 2012, which focused on what are the issues for 2012 and how can we help. The Olympics coming to Weymouth & Portland will provide new and [...]

Delegates at my recent workshop asked two key questions.
How do I re-find my confidence?
Confident people had lost faith in themselves after being on maternity leave, an abusive conflict situation, and receiving bad feedback.
Are we actually born with confidence or is it something that we learn? Remembering the assured way my son demanded his first feed [...]

Some trainers use actors to provide role plays. We like to give participants hands on experience. The delegates on our Effective Communication workshop on February 23rd provided two fascinating scenarios of how to deal with difficult behaviours. The key learning for them was:

Do more of
Avoid

Plan and prepare before going into the situation
Set expectations or ground [...]

Tuesday 9th March 6.30 – 8 pm at The Centre for Health & Wellbeing, Weymouth

Rosie Barfoot is giving a short workshop to help you build your confidence. This is a charity event.
Lack of self-esteem, negative thinking, or fear of change often prevent people from trying to achieve their dream, or even accepting that it is [...]

You wouldn’t think of asking your team to do the job without providing them with the best tools for the task. The ‘tools’ needed to manage people are very different to those needed to do the job. For some reason, people skills are called the soft skills, and yet they can be extremely hard to [...]

Award your managers with the essential skill to increase performance. The Institute of Leadership and Management Level 3 Award in Workplace Coaching for Team Leaders and First Line Managers (takes nearly as long to say as to deliver) provides a great way to increase your team’s skills and gain self development for your managers.
A recent [...]

‘The task of managing and leading people is much more akin to being the conductor of an orchestra….’ John Harvey Jones
 Watching a conductor working is a fascinating sight and can give valuable lessons for running a business. With just a tiny baton and the slightest of movements, (s)he manages the performance of a large number [...]