1: I went to market: each person says their name, and one thing about themselves. The next person repeats what that person has said, and adds their own name and fact. The next person repeats what the previous two have said, and adds their own name and fact…and so on. Good for embedding names [...]
Monday, July 20, 2009
1: Embedding is important: making the change is relatively easy; it’s embedding the change that’s difficult. Ensure you have both a strategy and resources to keep the change going, once the changes have been made 2: 3Is: inform, involve, inspire: keep people informed at all times - even if there is no news, say so. Change [...]
Saturday, June 6, 2009
1: Keep your eyes open: the world is full of free or cheap resources. The trick is to have in your mind what you are currently wanting to improve, and checking regularly whether what you are seeing, hearing, looking at or working with will help you. For those who know our training, having a course [...]
Saturday, May 9, 2009
1: have a follow up project which requires the participants to apply their learning in a work-related area 2: set up an action learning set where the participants agree to meet regularly to share how they are using the learning, and how to overcome any obstacles they have met 3: set up a wiki - a web [...]
Saturday, April 4, 2009
This month’s list is our top 10 of ways we can behave that, although small, can make a big difference. 1: be level headed: keeping your head level (ie parallel to the floor) helps you look confident; if you tilt your head too far down or up, you look either submissive or coy (chin down), or [...]
Saturday, February 7, 2009
This month’s top 10 features Arnie’s top 10 business books. Some old, some new, but all worth the read. In no particular order: 1 Being Happy (Andrew Matthews). A top book with simple, but essential tips to achieving the title. Brilliantly written, and supported by excellent cartoons. Andrew started as [...]
Saturday, February 7, 2009
1: Identity: Strong teams have a clear identity, often signified in a number of ways. Most obviously a name, but also including budget, venue/meeting place, uniform, logo, colour scheme, language, rituals… 2: Shared values: Team members share similar values, such as integrity, commitment to the common task, mutual support… These are not imposed, but genuinely shared. Ideally these [...]
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
We recently worked for a Midlands client who asked us to offer our top 10 suggestions for ‘how organisations do better’ - ie continuously improve and develop. This is our list: 1: Ability to learn: they have, and invest in, their ability to learn. For example, they might have an intranet site dedicated to sharing [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
Scapegoating time… Opportunity costs… See interruptions as service enquiries… Manage the splash… Have an automatic bring forward file… Challenge the T… Urgent and important… The 3 laws of urgency No more urgent/asap… Deadlines and durations Scapegoating time… Stop blaming time – as in “I’d like to do it, but I didn’t have the time”. What we really mean is: “it wasn’t enough of a priority [...]
Arnie has already successfully run some in house Practitioner programmes, and is also currently running a ‘Personal NLP Practitioner’ programme. This is designed specifically for individuals, and is tailored exactly to their needs: time, place, pace, and learning preferences. You can join this programme any time you like, and take as long as you like. [...]
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There are two main views about leadership:The functional , formal view-that it is a function, associated with post, and resides at the head of the organisation(i.e. headship); and the personality view-that it can exist anywhere, at any level, within the organisation, and is essentially an attribute or set of attributes that anyone can have (i.e. [...]
Just to let you all know that on our SLIDEAS site, we are now offering a new powerpoint presentation every fortnight (alternate Sundays), for you to download for free! Our back catalogue of presentations is also available. So don’t miss out on these freebies - check the site regularly!! We’d also be interested in any similar presentations you have. Just email them to me, and I’ll get them published, with full credits to the author!
Friday, September 11, 2009
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