Motivating Employees to Learn
How do your employees react when you let them know they are attending a training course? Do they see the value in training and learning? In this post we share some ideas on how to motivate your employees to learn.
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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
Lessons from the Apprentice Returns This Evening
It’s back, the new series of the Apprentice starts this evening, and as we did in the last series we will be reviewing the lessons that we can learn the approaches that the contestants take during their tasks. Look out for our weekly posts by our Managing Director David Lumley as he gives his take … 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.
How Am I Being Perceived?
Do you ever wonder what other people think of you or how am I being perceived? Being more self-aware can change the perceptions that other people have of you. In this post, we look at how to understand how you are being perceived.
Time Management – Managing Your Email Inbox
Do you get swamped by emails and find yourself spending more time looking for things and working on things? In this post, we look at some tips for managing your email inbox.
How to Influence Your Manager
Do you want your manager to do things a different way or to take on-board ideas that you have. If yes, then you will need to influence them to come around to your way of thinking. In this post we look at some tips for how to influence your manager.
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.
