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Posts from ‘July, 2008’

How to Fund Charities in the 21st Century?

At a recent meeting of experiential business learning® group, The Academy for Chief Executives, the chief executive of a major UK charity raised the issue of how to fund charities in the in the 21st century. The charity is primarily involved in community care. The third sector is an important business sector and has some […]

Ten Golden Rules for Persuading Others

We all need to be persuasive to get our points of view across effectively. But are there any ‘golden rules’? Here are ten, well proven. We probably knew them already – but do we always apply them? We all have to influence and persuade others, whether at work or at home, and most of us […]

Establishing KPIs for a company value system

At a recent meeting of experiential business learning® group, The Academy for Chief Executives, the issue of how to reinforce company values and establish a KPI that captures the key values and monitors how well they are being lived within the company was discussed. A very interesting issue which generated a lively discussion from members […]

Practical Performance Coaching

Steve Head gave chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group members (from Peter Pritchett’s Academy Groups 5 and 32) a very practical and powerful workshop on Practical Performance Coaching in July. Developed from Tim Gallwey’s “The Inner Game” and sports coaching experience, high performance coaching is the process by which the coach can allow an […]

Non-Financial Ways to Motivate Your Staff

Motivating your staff doesn’t always have to be about money or financial rewards. At a recent meeting of experiential business learning® group, The Academy for Chief Executives, the issue of introducing non-financial rewards as a way to motivate staff was raised during the afternoon session (‘The Board You Could Never Afford®’). Many CEO members were […]

Unleash the Power of the Internet

Academy Group 16, chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group (with members from the Cumbrian area) recently heard SEO and internet marketing expert, Guy Levine (see Guy’s website at www.webmarketingadvisor.com ) give a very interactive session on “unleashing the power of the internet”. He explained how internet marketing is evolving and how understanding the way […]

Changing The Groundhog Day

Jessica Richards was on top form when she returned to experiential business learning® group Leaders Forum 9 for the third time in 7 years. Using her unique ‘Changing the Groundhog Day’ approach (different place, different people but the same situation again!), she helped group members achieve significant change in both their personal and professional lives. […]

Perception and Risk: Climate Change

Academy Group 16, chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group (with members from the Cumbrian area) recently heard Adam Woodhall (see Adam’s website at http://www.ppp-online.co.uk/ ) give a very interactive session on perception and risk, entitled “Familiarity, Flukes, Fact and Future”. The session started with raising awareness of the gulf between peoples’ perceptions and the […]

The Turning Tide – and why businesses buy

The emotions behind how we make our personal purchasing decisions as consumers are often very well researched by those who seek to sell to us. But professional buying-decisions in industrial markets have their emotional triggers too – and they are changing. The focus of successful business-to-business sales teams has been moving rather subtly over time. […]