Really enjoyed the keynote presentation at the Supply Chain World conference by Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent Drinks – the presentation with the least slides but biggest impact!  (I’m sure my presentation coach said something along these lines!  I know, Mike I know)… Smart Calls and Screw Ups Anyway – called it ‘Smart Calls and [...]

I wrote an email today for a student I met at a Supply Chain Conference who had enormous drive, talent and capability but mentioned that she encountered a number of people who were taken aback by her style and confidence.  I shared with her what the biggest lessons I have learnt (painfully) about working in [...]

People skills are a crucial part of the success in any business….and if you are in doubt, just check out the financial pages of any broadsheet! Everyone is waking up to the fact that skills are a competitive differentiator! However, for many years, being able to evidence a return on the investment in training was [...]

One thing my team and I are passionate about is delivering ‘education’ into the hands of our customers.  However, to be consistent with what people procure, we always refer to this as ‘training’ – on our website, on our literature and in our proposals. So what’s the difference? The difference is… Training is what companies [...]

I have now settled in as a student at Loughborough University, lectures have started and winter training is firmly under way. My training is based around 5 skill sessions per week to learn technique and 5 sessions to develop athleticism. The first month of my training is dedicated to a basic level of fitness, flexibility [...]

This is the second of the blog posts I wrote before the sad news of Steve Job’s passing… Following on from my last post on Apple and whether it will survive post-Jobs; I saw and replied to a great post the other week on the LinkedIn group CEO Crossing on Steve Jobs and his tenure [...]

The academic year has just begun so recently moved to Loughborough to embark on my first season of winter training. This seems to be the start of the cycle of the throwing calendar, with one or two months of work on general athleticism being followed by more specific strength and then power training, designed to [...]

I wrote this blog post last week before the sad news of Steve Job’s passing – may he rest in peace. He has to be one of the most inspirational human beings who ever walked the planet – huge respect. Built to Last? Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big fan of [...]

We are driven by the concept of helping organisations become ‘great’, especially the idea of helping companies in our home country become more effective and efficient and able to not only survive, but compete on the world stage. ‘Become great’ With that same mentality in mind, and with the world about to focus on the [...]

Recently in the news, major UK manufacturing companies have announced that huge numbers of people are to be made redundant in order to cut costs; effectively using a blunt tool to indiscriminately cut swathes of workers and in doing so lose huge amounts of skill and experience that had taken decades to develop. We have [...]