Ask more questions, stupid!
If you could choose just one behaviour which you could somehow magically fix overnight in your organisation, and you had to choose the one which would make the most business impact, which one would you...
View ArticleThe dysfunctional Appraisal
Lots of you enjoyed my previous post “The coaching session from hell”, featuring a video nasty in which my erstwhile friend and colleague Spencer Holmes perpetrated the most psychologically damaging...
View ArticleDo you take enough risk?
This is not Spencer, or indeed myself. Just to be clear. A couple of weeks ago I was working in Houston with my long term friend and business associate Spencer Holmes. We were running a Project...
View ArticleProject Planning really works! OMG!
Musikscoolers ready to face the music Last week I had the honour of working with a team of 15 facilitators from our Musikscool network. We were working on our biggest project to date, and it was quite...
View Article"How to" or "How not to"? That is the question.
Do you learn more from being told how to do something, or being told how NOT to do it? There’s a nice question to ponder, about which my training professional readers could no doubt debate for hours....
View ArticlePresentations: Plan versus Actual
This image says so much. It captures some of the principal Presentation Phobias, in my opinion. It is almost a self contained case for making the use of PowerPoint a criminal offence. Think what would...
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