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Are we nearly there yet…? Free children’s travel book

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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For any of you setting out on a summer hols car or train journey, we have written a very interactive children’s book to help them through the journey.  It’s a mixture of quizzes, observation questions, guesssing games, memory tests, etc.  It’s really for primary school age kids - say 6 to 10 year olds - [...]

Get that job - no win, no fee!

Monday, May 17, 2010

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Yes - honestly!  We offer a ‘no win, no fee’ route to getting your next job!  What’s more, we have a 85% success rate…! This is how it works. You can choose a 3 hour or 6 hour option.  For the 3 hours, we will look over the job details, and advise on filling in your application [...]

Top 10: creative thinking tools…

Monday, April 5, 2010

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1: reversal: a common technique, and a way many have found their fortune - by simply reversing a conventional idea or way of thinking - eg: take the pizza to the customer, rather than have the customer come for the pizza (domino pizza); sell the basic doll then add the clothes, rather than sell [...]

Top 10: staying calm…

Monday, February 15, 2010

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1:  Manage your breathing: consciously breathe more deeply and slowly.  It is your rate and depth of breathing that physiologically affects your heart rate, and thus your sense of anxiety and panic 2:  Lower your shoulders: this will help you relax, take the tension out of your neck, and you will also look less tense to [...]

Festive fun….4

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Next quiz. Put the year to each of these Christmas number 1s: 1  Save your love 2  Lonely this Christmas 3  There’s no-one quite like grandma 4  Bohemian Rhapsody 5  Moon river 6  Mad world 7  Mr Blobby 8  Two little boys 9  Merry Christmas everybody 10  Sound of the underground 11  Mistletoe and wine 12 Ernie 13 Saviour’s day 14 When a child is born 15 Stay another day 16 Can [...]

Festive fun….3

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Next quiz. This is hard…you just have to guess most of them…. 1  When was the Queen’s Christmas Speech first broadcast on television? 2  When was the first stamp to commemorate Christmas issued? 3  Which English ruler banned Christmas? 4  When was the first Christmas card commercially produced? 5  Christmas trees became popular after one of our royals planted one at [...]

Recent assignments..

Sunday, June 7, 2009

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A couple that were different from the norm.  The first was to help a metropolitan borough undertake a consultation exercise with hard to reach groups about its revenue and benefits services.  We discussed a range of options, and eventually came up with the main part of the session having the customers seated at a series [...]

Effective Xtras - additions

Saturday, May 16, 2009

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We have now produced another 4 in the series ‘Effective Xtras’ - our audio cds summarising some of our main ideas and principles behind key development topics. The latest four are: Effective Xtras 4: Problem Solving Effective Xtras 5: Leadership Effective Xtras 6: Managing Change Effective Xtras 7: Micro Behaviours All arer available to order.  See our products page for further [...]

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!