Our level of productivity depends as much on our inactivity as our activity. Failing to get a good night’s sleep prevents our bodies and brains from fully recharging. Like a car battery, if we try to operate on less than a full charge both our short and long term performance will deteriorate.
The steps below could help you sleep like a baby
Whether you are waking up tired or struggling to get to sleep, here are some tips that can help: Read more »
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A creative and involving exercise that will highlight the need for communication, collaboration and organisation across the group. Suitable for many different groups and group sizes. Read more »
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterIn his superb book Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, Jim Collins states that a common factor in the highest performing businesses is the make up of their teams. He says the best leaders “get the right people on the bus, in the right seats and the wrong people off the bus.”
So, if some of your team have had a run of bad luck or even failed in the past can they succeed as a team in the future? Read more »
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterIf your organisation holds a large annual conference, prepare yourself for a very different experience in 2012.
A shortage of venues this summer might be just the thing to breathe new life into your next conference
A combination of the Olympics, the Farnborough Air Show and other major events between June and September means that many of the larger hotels and conference centres already have bookings confirmed for this period and are unable to accept large bookings during the summer conference season of 2012.
Whilst this might send a shiver down your conference organiser’s spine, they needn’t panic. Read more »
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterJames Murdoch must be wishing News International had stuck with printed memos as the Leveson enquiry threatens to pin the blame on him for the phone hacking scandal.
Having a problem with too many emails? Some solutions to this will be part of our next event "How to be more Productive with Less Stress" on Friday 16th March 2012
The rest of us face the daily battle to select the important from the apparently urgent, as we try to spend time on the priorities that will drive our organisations forward and not fall into the trap of our Inbox becoming our To Do List. Some solutions to this will be part of our next workshop “How to be more Productive with Less Stress“ on Friday 16th March 2012.
The Financial Times recently reported that Read more »
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterIt’s not much fun waking up early and joining the crowds to return to work on a cold January morning.
It takes more than chocolate to motivate a team – but it’s a start
So here are five ideas to welcome and motivate your team at the start of the New Year:
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterAs we consider what resolutions we will make in 2012 it is sobering to reflect on the regrets of those that have gone before us.
What will your new year's resolution be?
Bronnie Ware was a palliative nurse who cared for many people in the final weeks of their life. Over time, she compiled a list of their most commonly held regrets. Interestingly in each case people don’t regret things they have done but in fact regret things they have not done.
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
So as opportunities arise in 2012 let’s not be put off by the consequence of our actions but instead seize each day.
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterThis month it’s been hard to miss the highly polished and celebrity endorsed TV commercials for exotic perfumes.
Could your team make the next big celebrity endorsed perfume?
Scent forms a significant part of all our lives whether we wear perfume or not – our food, washing powders, cleaning products and even hotel lobbys are infused with odours designed to make us feel either calm or energised, happy or nostalgic.
Our latest team building event The Perfume Challenge is Read more »
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterThe very nature of team building activities encourages participants to co-operate with their team members to achieve success, but a lot of these activities rely on competition rather than co-operation.
The Team Machine, an energetic, large scale team building exercise requiring participants to co-operate with other teams to achieve a common goal
Messages about the importance of co-operation and communication across the whole organisation rather than just within a small team can therefore be missed. With this in mind Fresh Tracks developed a new large scale team building exercise a couple of years ago – The Team Machine – based on a construction exercise that many will recognise from their childhood. Read more »
Make an enquiry Become a contact on Linkedin Follow us on TwitterWith the season of goodwill and gadgets to all men approaching, we thought it would be fun to insert a gadget review into our blog.
Unlike the typewriter, the book and the keyboard, today’s technical advances don’t seem to be threatening the humble pen. We might not use it so much these days but most of us would still rather take a note pad and pen into a meeting than rely on cumbersome technology. The pen’s only limitation isn’t battery life or even ink – it’s the user’s ability to make accurate and legible notes that both summarise the key points whilst also providing a reliable record of events that can be referred back to for clarification on what was discussed and agreed. Read more »
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