Collaboration – Innovation
You are maybe awash with extrovert Ted talk types in your innovation and collaboration teams but every group needs an introvert to get it done. Every group of people from a nursery to an old age home will have a…
Read More An introvert’s guide to innovation and collaboration workshops
Everyone is very excited about voice channels. My former colleague Nitin Goel included, have a look at his blog here. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazon-alexa-dont-type-talk-me-nitin-goel/ Professionally, me too but personally, I’m not there yet. I recently bought Alexa to look after me whilst I…
Read More Alexa and me; a modern romance on the rocks (it’s not her, it’s me).
The modern corporate environment is changing rapidly and whilst we are all scrambling to adapt, there is one nationality who act in a way already suited perfectly to 2018. You might be surprised, but right now, best practice is French.…
Read More Bring me my wine: a guide to being French at work and why that’s a good thing.
I was fortunate enough to be in attendance at the weekend when the unfancied Scotland bettered their rugby playing counterparts from the south by 25 points to 13. This is a result worth noting because 1) it’s the first time…
Read More First or Worst: a lesson in risk taking from the Scottish Rugby Team
Ironman is a rather well know series of films about a guy (Tony Stark) with a metal suit which flies, has advanced AI and he lives his life like a corporate James Bond. It’s also a cautionary tale about the…
There was a time (2006) where team dynamics and personality profiling was all the rage. Every project or team would go through a process of discussing and then planning out what they thought a ‘high performing team’ would look like…
Read More Chandler and Monica’s guide to High Performing Teams: every team needs ‘Friends’
The Hunger Games is a series of films/books about a consumer driven TV focussed society where people fight to the death in an arena controlled and manipulated by a shadowy organisation where they have little chance of success and there…
In a recent release from the Rough Guide people, the country voted the most beautiful in the world was the perhaps unexpected Scotland (my home country). Not making the top 20 was Australia (my adopted country) which was subject to…
Digital is disrupting everything and this includes the recruitment process. Some corporates are going so far as to remove the academic requirements as entry criteria to rely more thoroughly on their own tools to assess talent. What are the unintended…
Read More Recruitment in 2017: The Digital Diversity Dilemma
If you work in collaboration or event design or facilitation or anything similar, you will probably recognise the following scenario; a client or a colleague arrives at your desk/office/bean bag and says ‘I need a workshop, here is the agenda, can…
Read More How to design a 1 day workshop in 10 minutes and 10 reasons why you shouldn’t.
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