Blog: February 2009
24 February: Positivity in an Uncertain Climate & BrightPurple Resourcing London Event
9 February: Building a Sales Culture relies on how you handle Customer Emotions
Blog: January 2009
27 January: Trust and confidence will not leverage businesses out of the recession
20 January:RBS Crisis: Without Leadership there is No Change
12 January: Radical Change: Consumer & Customer Behaviour
Blog: August 2008
23 August: Confronting Barriers to optimum Performance
Blog: July 2008
5 July: Personal Effectiveness (PE) & the Authentic Self
Blog: June 2008
14 June: Organisational Clutter & the Energy of Leadership
Blog: May 2008
14 May: Strategies & Skills for Creating a Lean Matrix Management Culture
12 May: Personal Effectiveness & the Zeigarnik effect: issues regarding the completion and closure of Unfinished Business
Blog: April 2008
1 April: Demands, Constraints, Stretching Targets and Time Management
2 April: Culture & Behavioural Change: Feng Shui for the Mind
1 December: In Search of Excellence through Customer Focus
3 December: The Secret behind Corporate & Personal Change
4 December: How Choice and Micro Behaviours is the Key to Mastering Change
5 December: Beaujolais Nouveau : Where is it?
6 December: Micro Behaviours are the Key to Change: Until Behaviour Changes, Nothing Changes
7 December: Excellence & Change Agent Influence
8 December: Unconscious Mastery in Communication
9 December: Body Language & Physiology in Communication
10 December: The Best Style of Influence - Flexibility
11 December: Authenticity & Presentation of Self - 30/31 January 2008
5 November: Identifying Values and predicting Trends in Buying Behaviour
14 November: Hunting for, Prospecting & Acquiring New Business
29 November: Performance Management: Can you give more than 100% Effort?
30 November: Generational & Performance Management: Matures, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials
1 October: Customer Management: Life Time Value
2 October: Customer Focus: Moments of Truth - How are your doing in Shaping Customer Satisfaction?
26 October: Millennials: Attracting, Hiring & Retention
3 September: The No Asshole Rule - Act Your Age not Your Shoe Size
12 September: Response to the No Asshole Rule
20 September: The Costs of being an Asshole
30 September: Lewis Hamilton - Singing in the Rain
25 August: "IF" Kipling: Resilience, Inner Strength, Robustness & Character
15 August: Positive Psychology & Dealing with Disappointment
13 August: Analogy for Life: Landing on an Aircraft Carrier
8 August: Politics of Change
7 August: Is Everybody on Vacation?
5 August: Lewis Hamilton & Politics of the Team
21 July: Presentations & Speech Writing: You Only Have One Opportunity to Make a Good First Impression
20 July: Tour de France or Tour de Farce
19 July: Harry Potter's Leadership Secrets
12 July: "Male, Pale & Stale" : 'Board or Bored' Directors?
10 July: Lewis Hamilton Does It Again
3 July: Synchronicity & the Change Equation
2 July: Congratulations Ann Atkinson
6 June: 8 Steps to Goal Setting: No Danger in over achieving
12 June: "Goal Setting, Lewis Hamilton & the Canadian Grand Prix"
18 June: Lewis Hamilton Wins Again - The Power of Decisions
1 May: Busting Bureaucracy to Delight our Customers
7 May: Everything is a Process: Map Everything to Improve
10 May: Red Tape & Bureaucracy: Take a Good Look in the Mirror
11 May: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement - Kaizen
15 May: A - Z Change Strategies
18 May: Self Reflection: Desiderata - Max Ehrmann, 1920
26 May: Dealing with Difficult People
1 April: New Cultures & Welcoming Change: Response to Trusted Lieutenant Syndrome and the Downfall of CEO's
6 April: Synergy is 1+1=3 and "what goes around comes around!"
9 April: Every Business Needs a sales Culture
11 April: Change Agent Mastery: Navigating Self through Change
13 April: What is Resilience and how do we acquire it?
20 April: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: A Favour Dressed up as a Gift
22 April: Junior Chamber International 2007 (JCI)
23 April: Leadership, Politics & The Scottish Election
26 April: Are Leaders Born or Made
27 April: Can We Have Too many Leaders?
2 March: The Thinking that got you to where you are today will not take you to the next level
4 March: Coaching Excellence
6 March: Everything you have and are was created with a simple idea!
7 March: 'Towards' and 'Away From' Motivation
9 March: Weight Loss for the Mind
10 March: 'Sales or Order Takers' - Car Dealerships
11 March: "Brand You"
12 March: Communication is what is received not what is written
13 March: Winning an Oscar using Consultative Selling!
15 March: The 5 Step Creative Process
16 March: "Secondary Gain" : Halting Organisational & Personal Change
22 March: It's Business Prevention Day!
22 March: Trusted Lieutenant Syndrome and the Downfall of CEO's
28 March: Conference: Trends in Customer Behaviour & Multi Channel Delivery
2 February: Managing Performance: Have things really changed in 14 years?
6 February: In Search of Excellence - 25 years to the day
13 February: Moments of Truth
17 February: Strategy on the Wall - Culture on a Stick!
20 February: 'Due Diligence' is the answer……..so what is the question?
21 February: Competitive Edge through Due Diligence
25 February: A relaxing break in France - Legaudin
26 February: Influence to Win - Inverness Marriott
28 February: In Presentations You Get The Audience You Deserve
1 January: Presenting Magically is the Goal
2 January: …..………..and Death Came Seventh
3 January: Words, Tonality and Body Language
4 January: The Amazing Doctor Fox
5 January: Presenting with Power - Know your audience
7 January: Woburn Consulting - a New View of Partnering to create lifetime value and loyalty with Customers
10 January: Moments of Truth (MOT) - what are they?
11 January: Moments of Truth, Kwikfit and Customer Retention
12 January: Is there anything we can learn from Customer Retention and is there a relationship with People Retention?
15 January: Are we only tapping 50% of the potential of our people?
18 January: 'Questions about the Performance Matrix'
20 January: Human Capital - Performance Matrix and a White Paper with Nick Price
29 January: CEO - Chief Energy Officer & Leading Change
1 December: Workshop - the Centre for Confidence
2 December: Welcome Back from India & Visiting the Tate Modern
5 December: Beaujolais Nouveau - Where is it?
6 December: Business Expansion and Acquisitions starting at Tate Modern
7 December: Networking for Value
8 December: Email Etiquette
9 December: Business Blogs: Visit Bob Sutton at Stanford
10 December: Christmas and the New Aerobics
11 December: Leadership is about knowing your people
12 December: Motivating Others & Eric the Fax
13 December: Leadership is like Herding Cats
14 December Behaviours: If you can't measure, it you can't manage it!
15 December: End of Week Before Christmas
16 December: Learning - Running & Team Leading
17 December: Woburn Consulting Group
18 December: Cold Calling & Negative Self Limiting Beliefs
19 December: Focusing on the Future
20 December: Master Matrix Organisation
21 December: The Past does not equal the Future
22 December: Keeping a Journal: Recording Your Life & Learning
23 December: Planning for Achievement in 2007
24 December: Goals, Balance and Compatibility
25 December: Are your life goals compatible with those of your partner?
26 December: Mountain Biking across the Pentlands
27 December: Reflections on the Past Year
28 December: Positive Relationships are Vital
29 December: Relationships, Customer Service & Kwikfit
31 December: Hogmanay & Stretching Targets
1 November: Active Learning with the Institute of Bankers and the Institute of Marketing
2 November: Myths of Networking
3 November: Goal Setting: Everything you are and have today was once just a simple idea
4 November: What can Roger Bannister teach us about Goal Setting?
5 November: Be Ambitious in your goal setting: Bob Geldof and Live Aid
6 November: Focus on Learning & Development in High Value Added Activities for the Business
7 November: Crank Up the Vision - Get it Moving
8 November: Take a Good Look in the Mirror
9 November: Integrating Personal & Organisational Change
10 November: Winning with Rapport: Personality & Objection Handling
11 November: Stretch & Achieve in 2007: Personal Effectiveness & Goal Setting
13 November: Language Patterns: Don't Listen to Your Self Talk
14 November: Using Tonality to convert gentle Questions into instructional Commands
15 November: "Because" is a powerful word………..
16 November: Lessons will be learned!
17 November: Presenting with Confidence
18 November: Poor Preparation for the Business World
19 November: Giving Something Back
20 November: Kilimanjaro & Back
21 November: Change: Fundamentals that lead to Success
22 November: Drive the Momentum for Change
23 November: Culture & the Power of Purpose
24 November: Speed as a Competitive Differentiator
27 November: Culture Change - Does anyone know what it is?
28 November: "When I hear the word Culture I reach for my Gun"
29 November: Speed of Implementation
30 November: A Final Word on Speed as a Competitive Differentiator
10 October: Psychometrics & Profiling
11 October: Technology or People - which drives Change?
13 October: Can we have too much Leadership?
15 October: Neuro Linguistic What?
16 October: Scary - Creating an Army of Change Agents
17 October: Where does 'Ownership' for implementing Change reside?
19 October: Asking the right strategic questions with web design
20 October: Making Change a Success
21 October: Gain a deep understanding of what makes organisations tick
22 October: Learning & Driving
23 October: The Thinking that got us to where we are today will not get us to the next level
26 October: Can a Leopard Change its Spots?
25 October: FOCUS & ENERGY - kick starting a new business
26 October: Start with the end in Mind!
28 October: Self Motivation: What's the best use of my time right now?
29 October: If you knew you could not fail, to what would you aspire?
30 October: A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline
31 October: Stretching Targets - Converting Prospective Customers to Eager Activists
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