Oct 7, 2010

At the Executive Village on Thursday evening in Bedford, we discussed ‘why’ you should blog. Many professionals start blogging but the enormity of it just becomes too much… and after a while the initial enthusiasm and rich vein of creativity drops away, and nothing gets posted for weeks and months at a time. Take a look at PWC’s blogs for a fine...

In my experience the bulk of business development work tends to fall upon one or two individuals, who are seen as rainmakers and good at ‘marketing and selling’. Think about your firm, or firms you know… rainmakers often have an official (or unofficial) title of business development partner or have been given a high, compared to other people, new...

The Royal Navy is to distribute 230 play station PSPs among its weapons engineers as part of an initiative to improve training efficiency. Training videos, featuring slides and voiceovers, will be pre-loaded onto the machines, enabling sailors to refresh their memories of important maths and physics principles without having to read a book or go back to the...

Most team away days are well thought out and planned… or are they? Here are some of the common pitfalls that trainers fall into when team building, mostly based on my own personal experiences as a participant! Do your homework in advance If you don’t do your research about the team and what is stopping them performing well together, then you...