Leadership lessons from bees
Did you know that bee hives think? A bee hive is a bit like a brain. It is a type of complex adaptive system. Which means a system which can react as a whole to its environment. And bee hives [...]
It’s not about the content
When you go to a presentation, what are you expecting? Personally, I’m expecting the presenter to do two things. I’m expecting them to… a) tell me something I don’t know that’s b) useful to me. [...]
Teams and Tribes
We’ve been tracking 4 organisations as they navigate working remotely, surveying their people every 2 weeks. Here’s an insight that might just inspire you to take action. Our tracking [...]
Why managers need to be wrong more
When I was a teenager, before I could drive, I had an argument with my Mum in the car. She was telling me how she could slow the speed of our (manual) car just by changing down through the gears. [...]
These are our most practical decision making tips.
If you’re interested in improving your decision-making, here are our tips that we’ve seen be easiest to apply to real life tough decisions!
How we make decisions – and how we can improve
How we make decisions, and how we can improve Critical decisions A fire fighter has just arrived at the scene of a house fire. The blaze is coming out of the top floor windows. How does he decide [...]
“It’s not what you do, it’s how you think”. The 4 cognitive skills that are the future of human work.
On the 1st February this year my eldest child started school. One day, during the orientation week, I visited a classroom for year 5 and was struck by what was pinned on the wall. Lots of [...]
1,825 days of learning what not to do
Today, Phil is saving me from myself. Phil is my DIY guy. He comes round and fixes up the things that I’ve tried to do myself and f***ed up. I am not talented at DIY, so often a simple task [...]
2018 talent and training trends
Most of us are busy thinking about 2018; and so we’ve put together some links on talent and training trends we thought might be of interest.