In business, there is always something new to learn, something else to know and another experience to be gained. No matter how long you have been in business, no matter how high you have risen whilst doing so, finding business excellence is a journey that never ends. I’ve been in business for many years and, […]
Posts under ‘Experiential Learning’
Leveraging the Life Experiences of Others …and Applying those Learnings to your Life by Mark Fritz
If you are a leader, alongside delivering the performance of your organisation, one of your top priorities is growing your people. The most successful leaders understand that motivating their people to do their own personal development is one of the keys to growing their people faster. In fact, your organisation would be in big trouble […]
Learning from Experience by Brian Chernett
In business, especially in the Board Room, people have less time for formal academic or classroom learning and achieve most of their learning through experience. Learning from your own experience often involves making mistakes because it is through getting things wrong that we learn the strongest, most enduring lessons. The disadvantage of learning only from […]
Sharing Brian Chernett’s ideas for success in the current economic climate – by Gordon Bromley
The members of my Surrey-based leadership group, Entrepreneurs Board 8, enjoyed an engaging and thought-provoking session from Academy for Chief Executives’ founder, Brian Chernett, recently. With over 40 years’ experience of leading businesses himself and coaching business leaders, and following publication of his new book, ‘The Entrepreneur Within‘, Brian perfectly combined his relaxed style with […]
Kevin Kelly wows over 60 Chief Executives at Academy for Chief Executives 2nd Thought Leaders Conference – by Brian Chernett
The second in a series of Thought Leader Conferences organised by The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE) took place earlier this month. ACE provides a unique forum in which CEOs expand their expertise through leadership training, executive coaching and mentoring. The conferences have been designed to showcase the innovative learning processes which not only develop […]
Real Life Experiences: Leaders learning from each other
New South London area Academy Chairman, Peter Lynagh, was delighted to be given the opportunity to discuss the launch of his local leadership group by South London Business recently. The interview which follows is reproduced on our blog, with their kind permission: The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE) has recently started a new group in […]
North West Academy for Chief Executives offers challenging advice for local businesspeople at Autumn events in Manchester and Preston
The Academy for Chief Executives North West region is offering local businesspeople the chance to ‘Eat their Ugly Frog first!’ with three free events this autumn – in Preston and Manchester. Says Alan Dean, Chairman of the Academy group in Cheshire, Merseyside and Manchester ‘With challenging times for business right now we wanted to offer […]
Learning is key to Thought Leadership by Brian Chernett
Learning shouldn’t stop when you leave school. It shouldn’t end when you complete a degree or when you get a business qualification. It certainly doesn’t stop when you become CEO of your company. In my experience, it never stops. Not only that, but it is vital to your thought leadership that it shouldn’t. Learning is […]
The brain and decision making by Ian Moore
I will start by stating the obvious, we make decisions with our brains. But let us consider what our brains are for. They have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to help us survive and to that end they are highly effective decision making instruments. However in modern day situations, and especially in business, […]
‘Reading Someone before you Shake Hands’ by Peter Sutcliffe
Members of the North East Academy for Chief Executives, Directors Forum 11, recently learned from speaker, John Cremer, how to “Read someone before you shake hands“. John’s brilliant workshop explaining his unique perspective on people ‘type’s’, their traits and personalities – both informative and highly entertaining. The experiential learning session helped us to understand other […]