Academy for Chief Executives Blog Rotating Header Image

Posts Tagged ‘Experiential Learning’

The real wizards of the business world? … Entrepreneurs – by Paul Hunting

‘To receive you must be active. You will receive in direct proportion to your strength of purpose, clarity of vision, steadiness of faith and depth of gratitude.’ – John-Roger I’ve been hunting all my life. For thirty years I’ve been pursuing my dreams disguised as a business person – but secretly practising alchemy. My role […]

What can we learn from “Natural Horsemanship”? – by Joanna Jesson

Members of experiential learning group DF9 (Directors Forum 9) were very surprised to find themselves sharing 2 days with 4 horses – working outside in a round pen!  Several of them were well outside their comfort zones.  Immediately they saw the horses, their heart rate went up.  The initial task was to learn how to […]

How to take advice by Jeremy Thorn

What was the best ‘incidental advice’ you ever had recently, that stopped you in your tracks? Not just the great ‘life-changing’ advice we can all look back on and share with others later.  Nor even all the grand tips of relevant good business practice, setting personal goals, managing work-life balance or building great relationships.  But […]

Deloitte and The Academy for Chief Executives selected by Birmingham City Council to deliver second Enterprise City High Growth Project

Due to the success of the first Enterprise City High Growth Project (ECHGP) in 2008/9, Birmingham City Council has again selected Deloitte and The Academy for Chief Executives to deliver development programmes to local businesses with major growth potential. Mike Burnage, Managing Director of  The Academy for Chief Executives stated, “I am delighted that Deloitte […]

How to improve the decision-making process by Peter Sutcliffe

The North East Academy for Chief Executives, Directors Forum speaker in July was Ian Moore who facilitated a fascinating and thought provoking experiential learning session on “Decisions Decisions“. We examined how we make decisions, how well we make decisions, how much bad decisions can cost us! and how we can improve the decision making process. […]

Events for Entrepreneurs by Brian Chernett

My theme this week in our blogs has been ‘entrepreneurship’ and with this in mind we have three conferences coming up which support our passion for leadership development, supporting the entrepreneur and championing the growth of the SME sector. When? Wednesday 8th September 2010 Where? Old Billingsgate, London What? Fresh Business Thinking LIVE! Running a […]

Are you a budding Entrepreneur? By Brian Chernett

The need for growth to come from private businesses in the UK has never been greater now that we are emerging from a global recession.  In developing countries too, growth will come from private business, preferably from businesses set up in their country of origin.  Businesses such as these are created by entrepreneurs, people who […]

Developing an Unstoppable Mindset by Joe Adams

One of the CEO members of my experiential business learning group recommended that we invite along guest speaker Erick Rainey (pictured below). Erick is a very professional speaker and talked on the subject… “Get the Edge”. We learned that Erick spent 21 years performing in theatre, circus and films, focusing exclusively on any and all […]

Recruiting Good Sales People by Joe Adams

The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE), a leading provider of experiential business learning® facilitates groups of CEOs and Managing Directors who meet together every month to network and take full advantage of peer group learning. Part of membership involves members taking their issues to the table and discussing them with their peers. At a recent […]