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The everlasting moment… a Zen approach to beginnings and endings by Jayne Storey

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m an advocate of Eastern philosophy, both as an antidote to the sometimes treadmill-like existence of life in the Western world and as a compliment to the best of modern innovations in developing human potential. Much of my coaching, for athletes and business-people, involves helping clients to […]

How Much Dare You Desire? by Gabrielle Gaché

The origins and meaning of words is always fascinating. Let’s consider the words of this title: Dare…..What does that mean to you?…..Outside your comfort zone? Takes courage……Requires action……..Will get the adrenaline flowing? You…..Not your company, not your family, not your parents, not colleagues, not your shareholders…..YOU! Desire….. ‘de’ ‘sire’……of the father. When do you have […]

Improvisation and Presence by John Cremer

As an experienced performer and trainer I condense the underlying value of practicing improvisation to one word – presence. In order to improvise well one acquires and develops a specific set of skills. This set of skills greatly enhances personal effectiveness through an ever deepening level of presence in the here and now. When people […]

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 […]

Achieving and Maintaining Balance in Business by Jayne Storey

The thing about balance is that it never achieves anything, except…well, being balanced. You’ll notice that outstanding achievers in any field you care to mention from business, to sport, the arts, science, politics, invention and design are never the most balanced of individuals and hardly lead balanced lives, so focused are they on breaking new […]

Balance is what you believe it is by Jeremy Marchant

When I was a salaried employee—of a variety of companies including Marks and Spencer and CMG, a full services IT business—I had no problem leaving at the end of the day and putting the job out of my mind. Not for me the contest to leave last or be in early. As a self employed […]

To Become a Thought-Leader, You Need to Stop Thinking! By Jayne Storey

The practice of meditation is a necessary skill for those who wish to enhance their baseline creativity and develop the intelligence, insight and intuition necessary to become a Thought-Leader. After all, outstanding minds in all fields – from the arts, to business and indeed sport – have one thing in common, and that is the […]

Thought Leaders – a variation on the term by Sue Knight

“Our object is to discover what you really want – it is not an easy task” The Potent Self – Moshe Feldenkrais “I must get the roof repaired before the winter sets in” was the first reply from a group to my invitation for examples of work and life goals. In thinking about the topic […]

Kindling – how to ignite the potential fire in your business by Paul Hunting

There seems to be a common frustration experienced by many leaders who have true vision – how do I get ‘the others’ to see, feel and act on the possibilities I, myself, see and feel? I was talking about ‘possibilities’ with a director of a large international operation the other day. They are doing very […]

Using Great Leaders to Model Leadership Behaviours by Brian Chernett

We can all be better leaders. Even those of us who have been leading people and companies for many years can learn from those who do things better than we do. Improvement is a continuous process when we choose to learn from others. One tool for improving leadership is to model what those who are […]