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5 Steps to Better Meetings

 
Do you find that some meetings sap your energy, achieve little and leave you feeling frustrated? It shouldn’t be this way. It is estimated that up to 25% of all working time is wasted in unnecessary meetings, so how can you make sure that your meetings are oozing productivity?

10 Tactics to Create Captivating Conferences

Are you struggling with with your post-event survey scores? Are your events lacking in engagement and value adding features? Then it is time to give your event a new itinerary, individuals attend conferences to gain learn new skills, network with new people and share professional experiences, so what can you do to encapsulate all of these whilst keeping it fun and entertaining?

Contrary to what speaker bureau would have us believe, it is possible to put on an outstanding staff conference without paying a premium for a celebrity to ‘motivate’ the crowd through the graveyard shift.

The 5 Ps of Team Away Days

The season for team away days is nearly upon us. Here are a few tips to ensure your next day out of the office is a success….

Can Bad Managers be Good Leaders?

Many have argued that leadership and management are different disciplines.  Management is about the day to day monitoring of people and systems, whereas leadership is focused on a longer term destination and the strategy that will get the organisation there.

Do you need to be a good manager, in order to be a good leader?

Henry Mintzberg challenges this by asking, ‘would you like to be led by someone who can’t manage?’ and ‘would you like to be managed by someone who can’t lead?’…

Pay Fewer People More

I have visited a number of businesses recently where staff are paid the living wage. With the cost of living rising exponentially the future is looking especially bleak for these hard working people. It is no wonder that workplace engagement is nose diving.

5 Sleep myths and 10 techniques to sleep better

There’s a silent epidemic creeping through society in the dead of night… studies have shown that at least 1 in 4 of us wake in the night or, find it hard to nod off.  Not only does this make you feel groggy but not getting enough sleep also directly impacts your performance at work and decision making skills. 

So what are the myths surrounding sleep and what can you do to help you get a better 40 winks? 

5 Ways to be an Outstanding Employee

Have you recently started a new job and are looking for ways to make the best first impression? Or maybe you’ve been in a job a while now and want to be first in line for the next internal promotion.

Lets assume that you are already doing the bare minimum of turning up on time, fulfilling your workload and avoiding disciplinaries, what are the extra attributes you should have in order to shine as an outstanding employee?

5 Things to Expect From a Facilitator

Imagine you are planning an important meeting, your first priority might be the agenda, followed by attendees and the venue. No doubt dietary requirements will raise their head along with a host of other minutiae.

Is Your Top Team the Top Team?

In common with most teams, Exec groups are not immune from internal squabbles, differing ambitions and ‘artistic differences’.

Is this okay? Does it matter more at the top than elsewhere in the organisation? Is discord more prevalent amongst senior teams.

Icebreakers! Valuable relational tool or Cringe Making Waste of Time?

How do you feel when you see that the agenda for the next team away day starts with an icebreaker?  Does a knot form in your stomach or does a smile form on your face?