There’s always something you can learn from putting your experiences down on paper. I love to dig around and discover new angles, often surprising myself and, hopefully you, with a relevant link to today’s situation. It all began some years ago when I was given the opportunity to write a business column for a local newspaper. I enjoyed the creative process and the clarification which came with writing. I am pleased to share my work with you here, along with some more recent musings.
It is a well-known fact that productivity in business here in the UK is not all it should, or indeed could, be. It’s been that way of course for some considerable time. However, since COVID, of course, things have generally got worse and more complicated, due to the ‘work from home/show your face in the office’ debate, which still rages …
The theme of this year’s retreat, staged in the beautiful Chainbridge Hotel in Llangollen, was the mind-body connection. With a demonstration of Taichi, a Pilates session and a mindful walk in the stunning North Wales scenery, all the delegates took full advantage of the opportunity to reinforce the connection between a flexible body and a flexible mind. Learn and grow …
I’m staging my Barnhill Consulting retreat in a little under a month’s time in the beautifully rural setting of the Chainbridge Hotel, Llangollen. Given that a retreat is often defined as an opportunity to find spiritual peace or make a ‘retreat’ from the pressures of life, why have I dubbed my retreat, ‘the retreat that means business’? A sense …
I attended a networking event in September to try to readjust to the pace of business life after a pleasantly distracting month of holiday in August. The speaker was one of my all-time favourite TV presenters, Louise Minchin, and I was looking forward to hearing about her new book ‘Fearless, Adventures with Extraordinary Women’. Of course, what Louise had to …
