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Author Archives: Caroline
A time for change, challenge and growth
2011 promises to be another interesting year! We continue to be challenged in business to do more with less and enhance our innovative ways to support that philosophy. So here are our top tips for 2011. L&D strategy 1. Detox your strategy - focus on the 3 areas only that will offer the business the ...
The best year yet for Learning & Development
They call today Blue Monday. So let's make sure that we don't succumb to the blues and make today the start of our best year yet in Learning & Development. Our industry is changing beyond recognition and it's exciting. It's a real opportunity to dig deep, get everyone involved in being both a 'teacher ...
The power of momentum
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes,your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum." Holly Near Momentum enables progress. It provides the driving force to success so how do we harness it, right now, to help our organisation succeed? This time of year people start to get distracted and preoccupied with Christmas (unless you ...
Both thinking – can you still innovate?
With the news that organisations are reducing investment in R & D and fewer staff are activley participating in improvment initiatives, it is important that we reflect on how we can challenge this trend. As organisations grow, they seem to fall in love with order and consistency. Management practices are developed to minimise risk and prevent ...
Three silver bullets to enhance your organisational self sufficiency
If knowledge alone helps people perform then most people within organisations would be high performing. And yet we often concentrate our efforts on building knowledge though training because that is easiest to identify. So if its not knowledge, the answer isn't more training. But what is the answer? How do we enable individuals to take ...
Perfection or action? The key to finding a simple solution, fast
In the premise of the 'Long Tail' we have been given the opportunity to specialise and sometimes to gain profit from that niche position. The Internet has enabled us to do that. Obscure books and records can be sold easily through sites such as amazon and i-tunes. Some never sell, others do turn ...
Cut or invest? – the best way back to organisational health
What is the best way back to full organisational health? Is it about managing risk and minimising cost or is it about harnessing the full potential of employee engagement? Which costs less and has the biggest impact? This short blog encourages a balanced perspective for getting the best out of your people.
When is a swimming pool not a swimming pool?
Thwarted by the impact of seasonal weather, the manager of the municipal swimming pool in La Tranche took matters into his own hands to enhance revenues. Taking a more resourceful view of what a swimming pool could he recreated the concept of their swimming pool. First he recognised that in the beautiful weather ...
Visual interpretation of engagement
I was inspired by this short video from Radio 4 in which Terry Gilliam was asked for a visual representation of Radio 4. It was incredibly simple ...
