Blog Posts

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What Makes a Great Presentation?

Communication, Presentation Skills
What makes a great presentation? In this post, we share some top tips for delivering engaging presentations and ideas to make your presentations more effective and impactful.

Richard Branson’s 10 Rules for Being a Great Leader

Leadership
Sir Richard Branson has 10 rules of being a great leader that has kept him ahead of the game throughout his career. He shares these in a recent book and we have an overview of them here.

Stakeholder Analysis – The Power/Interest Grid

Building Relationships, Influencing, Project Management
The Power/Interest Grid is a great tool for stakeholder analysis. It allows us to group our stakeholders into categories that will help us to understand how much interaction we need with them and the type of interaction that works.

How to Make and Use a Mind Map®

Presentation Skills, Problem Solving, Taking Notes and Remembering Information
Mind Maps are an incredibly useful tool for note-taking or as reminders of discussion points for meetings, presentations or training courses. In this short post, we look at how to mind map.

Team Management Roles – PAEI Model

Leadership
The PAEI model highlights four management roles that businesses need to be successful. Management teams become successful when managers and leaders demonstrate all four roles. In this post, we look at the 4 roles from the PAEI model.

Teamwork – Lessons From Geese

Leadership, Team Development
Geese provide an excellent example of great teamwork. In this post, we look at 5 lessons on teamwork that we can learn from geese. We hope you enjoy this quick read.

Effective Time Management Behaviours

Time Management
In our time management course, we raise the idea that effective time management isn't just about having the right tools. A big part of time management is behavioural in that we need to have the right attitude and behaviour. This post looks at why.

Dealing With Non Assertive People

Assertiveness Skills, Communication
A common discussion that comes up in our Assertiveness Skills training course is around dealing with non-assertive people. Those are the people who are either aggressive or passive. In this post, we share some quick tips in how to deal with someone who isn't being assertive.

How To Be More Positive – The Betari Box Model

Attitude and Behaviour
How to be more positive. It's something that comes up a lot in some of our courses. To help explain how someone can be more positive, we use the Betari box model as a way helping them to understand what impacts on them to make them feel less positive and how to turn this around.

Are You Making These Communication Mistakes?

Communication
Lots of people attend our communication skills training course and we find that they make the same mistakes when it comes to effective communication. Here are some of the common mistakes that people make.