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 …
Food for thought
I am categorically not a foodie, but I was excited to holiday in Lisbon and Porto recently. I’d heard a well-respected chef once say that the two best cities in the world for excellent cuisine were Lisbon and Copenhagen. Having sampled Portuguese food over a couple of weeks at a great variety of establishments, I would heartily recommend it and …
Welcome to my vlog
Welcome to my latest vlog! What makes a performance special? What impact does motivation have on the quality of a performance? Watch my latest vlog and find out what I learned from an EasyJet crew on my recent flight home from holiday.
Clean up your act
As many of you know, I’m a big fan of lifelong learning and I’m always striving to be a more complete coach. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Bad because the opportunities to improve, when it comes to ‘being good with people’, are infinite. Good, because any kind of progress is generally rewarded with a feeling …