Getting technical: 3 ways to encourage people to take charge of their learning and development Have you ever researched a task before making a start on it, only to find that the experience of seeing it through was totally different from what you expected? Recently, we were blessed by the scrumptious return of Britain’s [...]
Expanding your L&D palette: blowing open 4 misconceptions you may have about using new insights tools Think back to the last time you were cooking a big meal for a group of friends or family. We’ll wager that you probably had your favourite cookery book propped up in the corner (or perhaps your go-to [...]
Food for thought: focusing on both the topping and the base to bring your L&D dish to life PRINT® can reveal a lot of tasty hidden psychological insights that other top-level profiling tools can’t – opening you up to a whole new palette of possibilities. Bon Appétit! Who doesn’t have a sweet tooth for [...]
Hashtags and handles: is it time social media became the go-to internal communications channel? ‘Just setting up my twttr’. This unassuming, seemingly mundane little sentence might not seem like much at all upon first glance. You may even be wondering why something so apparently insignificant has been used to open this blog post. But [...]
Fairy tales and folklore: which character types exist in your workplace? What links Star Wars with Shrek? At first glance, it probably seems like there’s no connections at all. Both films were produced by entirely different studios, were made decades apart, and one follows the story of an arrogant, cranky ogre while the other tracks [...]
Lights, camera, communicate!: why you should be using video in your internal communications It was an ordinary day in Paris, on the 28th of December 1895. Crowds of curious theatregoers had gathered at the Grand Café at 14 Boulevard Les Capucines for a screening of one of the first films ever made: the Lumière [...]
5 ways you can make change management fruitful The age of change is upon us. Globalisation and economic turbulence have catapulted us into the 21st Century of disruption and innovation, and we’re slap-bang in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution – one in which technology is transforming the way we live, work and [...]
Smugglers and Skywalkers: The Life Cycle of Successful Teams What’s been your biggest achievement today? Have you by any chance destroyed a Death Star, brought down an Empire, and become a fully-fledged Jedi, all while rescuing a Princess and redeeming one of the universe’s most feared evil enforcers, in only one day? If you [...]
Starting with the Marshmallow: The Key to Successful Teamwork Here’s a challenge for you: find 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 metre of tape, 1 metre of string and a marshmallow, and put them all together to make the tallest free-standing structure you can in 18 minutes. Sound interesting? Well, if you do – and [...]
5 Tasty Ingredients for a Stupendous Employee Engagement Sandwich Employees are the bread and butter of successful organisations. But we all know you can’t make a sandwich out of just bread and butter. The perfect sandwich needs a few ingredients - at least some sort of filling, and maybe even a smidgen of sauce. [...]