How to Make Assertive Decisions

We all need to make decisions but are your decisions assertive decisions? In this post we look at what are assertive decisions and how you can make decisions assertively. This will help ensure you spend your time making the big important decisions in your work and life.

Lessons From the Apprentice – Design a New Gadget

This weeks task on the Apprentice was to design and pitch a new household gadget.  Lord Sugar said that the success of the task would be very much down to the concept as the team who secured the most orders from two major retailers would win. The boys led by Azhar decided to focus on … Read more

Lessons From the Apprentice – Print It and Sell It

So on the day the latest budget was announced, the new series of the BBC’s Apprentice starts.  Lord Alan Sugar has 12 new contestants competing for an investment in starting a new business, having him as a business partner. I can’t help but think – New Series, Same Lessons? Have these people not seen the … Read more

Should We Put People Into Boxes?

Business models are something that is widely used in training courses to help delegates remember skills and make applying learning much more effective. Many of these are related to behaviour and requires us to categorise people. Is it wrong to do this? We take a look in this post.

Diagnosing Behaviour and How to Change It

Behaviour and attitude can be a difficult thing to understand, particularly when you are a leader who has team members displaying negative behaviour. In this post, we look at how to find out what is going on by diagnosing behaviour and how to correct it.

What is Experiential Learning?

[toc] What is Experiential Learning? Experiential Learning is the process of learning through a direct experience or simply put learning from experience. This means that learning is accomplished by staging certain scenarios or exercises that delegates get involved in and learn from this experience instead of listening to a trainer or lecturer talking about a … Read more