A few years ago I read an inspirational book by Michael Gelb called “How to think like Leonardo da Vinci“. It’s an amazing book to prompt different thinking and increase your powers of creativity. The book came to mind last week as I was thinking through some ideas in the day job. I want to … Read more
I wrote about Reflective Practise on this website a couple of years ago. My thinking has moved forward since then – you could say, the result of reflective practise itself! Here’s what I wrote back then: What do I mean by ‘Reflective Practise’? This is the regular habit of asking yourself questions about how you … Read more
I love reading. I’ve always got a few books on the go at once. I also like variety, so I do read books from a wide range of genres. Years ago I set up a simple set of lists to keep track of my reading: Books Read – I keep a list of the books … Read more
Last week I worked with the team I lead on the values that underpin our work. A couple of years ago we commissioned an Impact Report. The team who led the work (Nick Fayers and Sue Roberts) interviewed our key stakeholders and produced some underlying metrics to assess the impact of our work. From the … Read more
I have spent today thinking some more about where I take the book manuscript which I have been trailing in this blog on coaching. It’s called “The Coaching 30” and comprises a set of tips and ideas for coaching. It is aimed at coaches and coaching clients. The ideas are taken from my own studies … Read more
Seth’s Blog: Association. According to Seth Godin, we are who we associate with. Those that we spend time with create the changes in the way that we are. I would just add that we are also who we read, what we watch and what we listen to.
This is just a really quick comment on the idea of team working and encouraging discussions in a way that resembles flash mobbing. What do I mean by that? Well, in the last few years I have become increasingly impressed with techniques for facilitation that rely on the wisdom within the room and push the … Read more
October is the month of quick ideas. I have been working with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for a number of years now. It featured in my PhD thesis, for example. And in my day job, we used MBTI as a team building tool last year. There are many applications of this tool, and … Read more
I wrote in earlier posts about the work we did last year as a team to develop a Creative Learning Academy approach. This included reading a book a month, a set of workshops and other activities. This helped to inform the developments in the Releasing Potential Programme which we are now running for R&D Managers … Read more
Isn’t it just great when you have a team of people working together who are incredibly productive? Together they generate great ideas, they are full of enthusiasm and everything goes up a level. New things almost seem to be created every day and everyone is a part of it. You can see this happening if … Read more