At a point where many of us needed distraction from a certain something not actually coming home after all, I’ve been reading about how the heroic Thai cave rescue can inform our emergency planning, pondering positive thinking and considering the perils of social media. Here’s my Friday Five for this week. 1. Making your emergency…

As sure as the Summer brings with it warm potato salad and overcooked sausages, it’s Friday and with it comes the Friday Five. Thanks to everyone who’s been reading over the past month or so! This week I’ve been concentrating on what to concentrate on and reading about reading, with some comms about comms thrown…

Another week has flown by so it must be time for a Friday Five! In a week where Summer finally appears to have shown its face, I’ve found myself intrigued by ideas on transforming company culture and fascinated by a story on baby clothes saving lives! What’s grabbed you this week? 1.Too big for your…

For this week’s five, I’ve been grabbed with how the recent Facebook privacy debacle has led to a mass exodus and curious to how CEOs use their time so effectively. Also intriguing to see that a couple of beers could actually benefit your health…just don’t go mad! What have you been reading this past week?…

With World Cup fever sweeping the nation, it was always going to feature in this week’s Friday Five. Along with that, I’ve been gripped by the idea of leading in the face of fear as well as the impact of a community safety and psychological threat. Which stories have caught your eye this week? 1.…

As part of a new series, every Friday I’ll be sharing some of the news stories that really grabbed me over the past week. Here are this week’s ‘Friday Five’. 1. Leaders – be wary of quick wins 2. Which tattoos make people less employable 3. I, Robot: Automation, employment and inequality 4. Numbers up…

Following on from our recent blog on culture, we thought it would be fitting to provide some advice on something that can be detrimental to a happy company culture – difficult colleagues.   It can be tempting to lash out when dealing with annoying people at work. But a new piece in the Harvard Business…

Three quarters of us do other work when we’re in meetings, according to statistics published in the Harvard Business Review.   Worse, 90% of meeting attendees daydream whilst there.   Meetings probably eat up more time at work for senior leaders than any other activity, often resulting in a sense of frustration and time-wasted. But,…

Pitching, creating and delivering compelling sales propositions, is something that private sector business leaders know all about. Pitches win business. And being good at pitching can mean the difference between staying profitable or heading into the red in what is an increasingly competitive world. But the skill of pitching does something else which is equally…

If someone asked you what your organisation was trying to achieve could you summarise it in the time it takes to go down a few floors in a lift – without being trite or bland? That’s the Lift Speech Challenge, a device designed to force us to focus on the core value proposition that drives…