Archive of: 2017

• Those perfect teams

  01 February 2017

  Today I met with an old friend of mine, who is puzzling over the formation of a team and why he wasn’t quite getting the results that he was looking for; he and his organisation have employed several models and techniques around change and team building as well as role identification etc. One model that had been used to underpin some of the team formation was Bruce Tuckman’s 1965 model Forming, Norming, Storming & Performing for team development.

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• Businesses don't.......

  19 January 2017

  I was out and about in London today and I saw a brilliant sign in a Costa coffee shop, 'businesses don't make coffee, people do'. That message while simple is so effective, not only the product that you see in the shop, but those that grow it thousands of miles away and all those in between that ship it and roast it, the list would go on. The wall in the shop demonstrated how Costa sees its people, pictures of the 'Barista of the year', the farmers and children in a nursery who benefit from the Costa foundation.

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• A valuable lesson

  07 January 2017

  Now this is not very festive in any sense (it’s about the dentist in part!), however I will press on anyway because I thought this was such a valuable lesson.

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• Resolutions a distant memory?

  04 January 2017

  So, another year commences, the days have swung around to January 1st and New Year's Day and now we begin to accelerate into the New Year. If you're lying in the ruins of your resolutions, fear not, all is not lost!

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