Why is it that most parties end up in the kitchen? After speaking with a few people about this very few of them have the same opinon. Some say its because that’s where the food or drink is, some say they like the noise and some say its because it’s a ‘doing’ place and if you are occupied with cooking or cleaning you don’t have to talk to anyone.

I believe its because it’s the only place in the house where you can actually be yourself. Even Prince William and Kate had a private...

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Managing someone with ‘disruptive talent’ characteristics can be quite a perplexing task for any leader or manager day to day. Overseeing someone with these behaviours during change can be a challenge unless you understand what you are dealing with. Once you learn how to master and manoeuvre their customary routines it will be extremely rewardi...

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Ok you’ve got me the title isn’t actually true but there have been similar headlines like this all over the country since the introduction of the five pence charge to carrier bags.  Some of the most recent have included Tesco’s adding security tags to their ‘bags for life’ to prevent theft, Iceland adding poles to their trollies because shoppers prefer to take a trolley rather than pay the extra five pence and apparently when Oba...

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Last Friday evening (9^th October) I attended the Slough Business Community Partnership (SBCP) Conference to gain knowledge of the organisation, meet some of its members and learn how I can get involved. They work with a number of businesses to better serve local communities by actively improvi...

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Last week during some review time I decided to make a list of the relevant questions I have been asked since August last year about what I believe to be the most common pitfalls during the implementation of change. I have always been consistent in my reply. Communication, COMMUNICATION, Communicat...

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Whilst on a train back from London on Monday I sat next to a very charming older couple who were discussing what their newly acquired phones (passed down from their grandchildren) could do.  The lady was telling the gentleman that she very rarely used words when messaging someone called Ellie beca...

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One of my favourite timeouts is to potter around the garden checking the flowering bushes and tidying up our home grown vegetable project. ‘Nipping it in the bud and dead heading’ are old sayings and you soon learn they are imperative to the accomplishment of your garden and crops overtime.  Both processes if not performed will prevent the effect...
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This month I visited the Great British Business Show at the Excel with my nineteen year old nephew Aaron. He is currently considering his options for University after taking a gap year to set up a small fashion design business which he can continue to maintain. I believed this would be a great opp...

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Two months ago you were successful in a bid for a contract to implement change to an up and coming retail business. Your task as a new manager is to get your clients onsite team to work together to implement the changeover from a manual procedure to a new computer based system and processes (for example Fashion Master).

After struggling through t...

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Given the recent occurrences in the news over the past few months I feel this blog has a duty to highlight some of the words we rarely use in the corporate world. Words like stress, anxiety and the most evil of all depression.

Let’s give you some facts. The total number of cases of work-related str...

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Special note: Dedicated to my nephew Aaron Baid a young man full of promise and readiness – one of life’s creators.

If I told you I could make all your dreams come true and all you had to do was close your eyes, would you believe me? Of course not! Yet in a strange way it is true. Even though I cannot guarantee that when you open your eyes you...

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From the moment we are born we are curious. After that initial scream of fear from leaving the womb your mind begins to wander and from here on in it’s about touch, smells, sight, hearing, seeing, connection and knowledge. Many scientists believe that curiosity is an emotion and should not be confused with instinct because it’s fundamental to sur...

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