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Posted by: Jacob Funnell
06 / 11 / 17
Training is one of the most important investments anyone can make in their future. It can help people get promotions and command higher salaries, and make their jobs easier and less stressful. It sounds like an easy sell. Unfortunately, for many people these huge potential benefits aren’t enough to motivate them to attend training. So […]
Posted by: Rob Ashton
15 / 02 / 17
Most people think their driving is above average. That’s a statistical impossibility, of course, otherwise it wouldn’t be an average. Still, it’s what we believe. In one study, no fewer than 93 per cent of Americans questioned placed themselves in the top 50 per cent of drivers. This is an example of what psychologists call […]
16 / 12 / 15
At this time of year, our thoughts inevitably turn to fresh starts and making resolutions for better ways to live and work. If you’ve pledged to give up cake or make the gym your second home, you’re certainly in good company. My friend Philippa is one of many who have declared this ‘Dry January’ (which […]
16 / 10 / 15
When you’ve finished an email, all you need is a friendly, professional sign off. And there’s one popular choice. That choice is ‘Kind regards’. For most work emails, it’s hard to go wrong with this. It’s succinct and it’s professional. Yet every week, I get emails from people who sign off like this: ‘Kind Regards’. So […]
14 / 05 / 15
There’s no getting away from it: research is addictive. And there’s a good reason for that – we’re all hard-wired to search. It’s a survival mechanism, programmed into us by evolution. As hunter-gatherers on the savannah, we needed something that would shake us from our slumber; that would make us get off our fur-clad backsides […]
06 / 05 / 15
Our courses are transformative. It’s the norm for participants to leave the training room full of confidence and buzzing with ideas. This is true even for people who were initially sceptical. (In fact, they often end up as our biggest advocates.) But even the best training can only go so far. New skills stay in […]
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