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It is hard to get your head around the achievements of Team GB these last couple of weeks. Those of us who are old enough may remember getting up early in the morning to watch David Hemery win Britain’s solitary gold on the track in Mexico, and the stir that created. 20 years ago in Atlanta (more…)
MD John Drysdale opened the August 2016 Liverpool Loves Business festival at the Crowne Plaza, Liverpool with “Pitch Perfect” – strategies and tools for securing work – to a packed audience of aspirational business owners, start-ups and established business leaders.
The talk was extremely well received as John laid out the main themes; “Why” you do what you do and how to “Be” in selling your ideas and your brand.
Copies of the slides for Pitch Perfect can be found below.
No Guru is proud to support the Liverpool Loves project and wish them every success for next year.
I took part in an interesting discussion yesterday which turned to reflections on school days. It seemed for quite a few of us, the school system failed to recognise our talents, traits and characteristics and paid little heed to our styles of learning or rate of development.
I well remember as a puny 13 year old taking to the rugby field for the first time (more…)
You must remember the old guessing game. The one where a group of you wrote the names of random famous people (sometimes objects or place names) on Post-It notes. (more…)
Leadership lessons from Brexit?
It has taken me a full week to even begin to gather thoughts about the outcome of the European referendum that can be articulated in a business blog. At the end of a tumultuous week I am, with many others in business, still processing what this means for us and what lies ahead. The chaos engulfing us right now as I write this, doesn’t feel as if it will resolve itself any time soon and I am concerned as to how this will affect companies like ours. Business hates uncertainty and in my lifetime I have never experienced such a deep unease as events appeared to spiral out of control this week.
Most worrying of all is the dearth of Leadership at the very top of our political system.
So what can be learned about leadership and leading change from Brexit? (more…)
Much more than “Team Building”
We held a beautiful event in Malhalmdale in North Yorkshire recently with our partners at Carnegie Great Outdoors delivering a “taster” day at the welcome surroundings of Newfield Hall. The session attracted a number of training and HR professionals to introduce them to experiential learning with an outdoor focus and how to facilitate it.
Outdoor activity can be a highly effective way of developing people (more…)
A quick guide to effective Business Presentations.
(2 minute reading time)
I thought I would follow up my ‘9 Mantras for Presenting’ blog with a short list of things we can STOP/START doing, (more…)
9 Mantras to build your confidence and deliver great presentations
I had a great time with one of my groups this week delivering Presentation Skills. It’s one of my favourite courses and I wanted to share (more…)
How great leadership teams address their most pressing problems
One of the things I enjoy doing most is working with Teams in solving problems. There are a number of elements to problem solving (or creating solutions) and one of the techniques we use is (more…)
Today’s blog is for anyone who feels daunted by goals and self improvement and may want a different strategy to the ones that aren’t working. If you are really motivated by setting Goals and SMART Objectives this may not be for you…
An amusing tweet appeared at the start of this year (more…)