As a local league badminton player with visions of being amazing sometime soon, I've invested time and money into having some personal coaching with an ex-England player who is brilliant. I now realise that I've been playing for 17 years with chronic bad habits which if I'm going to be amazing I need to change. ...
Tag Archive: Learning
Learning through an experience
A 6 year old boy learns that a school sweatshirt can't fit over a cycling helmet by trying it, not because his mother tells him. A 9 year old girl learns that she will get hurt by her younger brother when she pushes him first. Not because her mother has told her (repeatedly) that it ...
A little trust goes a long way
Our clients often tell us about the behaviours they want to see in their people - whether these relate to the way they serve customers, the way they manage or they way they approach work in general. While it's relatively straight forward to describe behaviours, encouraging the right one's is another matter - a fact ...
It took 10 years to be an overnight success
Yesterday on Radio 1 (Fearne Cotton) they replayed a line from ‘Pineapple Dance Studios’ on Sky 1. "It took 10 years to be an overnight success". People thought this was hilarious. But it got me thinking. It often takes one little thing to help you breakthrough your own barriers and if you consider this statement ...
When is 'good enough' good enough?
It's often when you read the same or similar things several times that you stop and take notice. This has happened to me recently - firstly it was 'Things change so fast that all books are outdated before they are published'. Then it was a story about Skype and how if they had waited to fix ...
It’s ok, I’m just learning…
We had an interesting Skype conversation at L&B this morning as Caroline shared the story of how her 6 year old had dismantled his bed with an allen key last night! Dilesh responded 'Oh dear' which was exactly what I'd been about to type ...so instead I wrote 'Clever boy'. Now that was very easy for ...
Scientific Proof that Internal Motivators work better than External Motivators
A few weeks ago I blogged about Internal Motivation and how it creates World Class Customer Service (read the post).
What can you learn from a Business Safari?
Last week I was on holiday in the beautiful New Forest (Would recommend the Beaulieu hotel to anybody wanting a forest retreat, chill out and scrummy food!) and on Tuesday my hubby and I visited Longleat – the safari park featured ...
How much do brands value you?
The first email in my inbox this morning said - you simply have to read this. So I did... In a nutshell it was a link to a blog by Paul McCrudden about a personal experiment he conducted where for 6 weeks he recorded the time and money he spent as a consumer of various brands ...
Boosting Your Vitality At Work
Last week I delivered one of our Quick Wins Workshops ‘The Feel Good Fete’ where people create ideas to help them feel great at the end of each working day rather than wanting to slump on the sofa as soon ...
