better skills, brighter future
There’s a fabulous TED talk by Graham Hill entitled ‘Less stuff, more happiness’. If you’ve not come across TED before, you’re missing out. In their words “TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, […]
One of my hobbies is choral singing. I’ve been in a choir since I was eight years old. Then, it was a very good girls’ school junior choir, and it was there I was introduced to harmony, singing ‘My Grandfather’s Clock’ I seem to remember. We progressed to Beatles’ numbers – I can still recall […]
I’m six months into my journey as an independent consultant and, boy, have I learnt a lot! I thought it would be relatively straightforward setting up a business doing roughly what I’ve been doing for 16+ years – designing and delivering memorable training courses. But when you’ve been employed for that length of time, you […]
A business moved into the village where I live a few months ago. It was good to see occupants in the empty building, which had been looking sorry for itself since the departure of the previous tenants. It’s a sign- and banner-making business. They specialise in PVC banners that advertise all manner of events and […]
Are we expected always to have the facts at our fingertips? Are we supposed to have thought through all the implications of a particular scenario at the outset? I only ask because I’m wondering what has happened to the phrase ‘I don’t know’. I was listening to BBC Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’ programme a […]
I’m not, on the whole, a patient person. My friends would echo that statement; my husband certainly would. If I decide to do something, I want to get on and do it now – I’m wasting time by waiting. I get frustrated by drivers, who won’t take the opportunity to pull out at a T-junction […]
One of the things I love about training people is what I call ‘lightbulb moments’ when something you say just makes an issue clear in someone’s mind – it’s as though there’s a lightbulb coming on above their head when they ‘get’ it. And it can be, to you, the simplest little thing but it’s […]