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Use Practice Zone thinking to build confidence

Use Practice Zone thinking to develop skills and insights in people ahead of when they are needed. This helps build competence and confidence ahead of … Read more

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Why Virtual Meetings can be great for diversity

Organisations tend to think they want diversity, and then they go about getting people to ‘fit-in’. We recruit people from a range of different backgrounds, … Read more

Tracking Action Completion

In some organisations, lack of progress on actions between meetings is endemic. In many organisation, it can be quite common, and can be a typical … Read more

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A cup of tea – gaining full attention

First impressions count. This Zen story is about gaining full attention for your ideas. – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more

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Maturity Models

Maturity Models are useful devices for building ownership for improvement within a viable strategy of overall change. They basically consist of a number of dimensions … Read more

Kolb’s Learning Cycle

It used to be thought that learning was something people did when they were at school or on a training course of some type. This … Read more