This morning, Business Insider, an online news channel published an article drawn from an Associated Press service. These days, native digital news media are growing in influence – as their non-digital, or hybrid, paper-based alternatives struggle to keep up. The… Continue reading
In the past, I’ve written about ways of structuring letters, emails, and marketing collateral. There’s a really simple formula that has stood the tests of time. If you follow this approach then you needn’t worry about falling foul of this… Continue reading
I’ve only once been heckled. It was at an international conference that I was trying to chair and a very senior UK politician got a bit carried away with themselves. I tried to get them to be quiet, then had… Continue reading
In a remarkable bit of succession planning, Prince William is to attend a bespoke agriculture course at the University of Cambridge to prepare him for his inheritance of the Duchy of Cornwall when his father, Price Charles succeeds to the… Continue reading
I am forever, it seems, banging on about how important it is to be visible, whether you expect to get a new job, help with your existing one, to keep informed about your field or whatever. Well this random statistic… Continue reading
Coaching Understood – A pragmatic inquiry into the coaching process Elaine Cox Sage 2013 ISBN 978-0-85702-826-6 £24.99 Coaching is an extraordinarily diverse field. Aside from the technical coaching environment, epitomised by sports coaches and personal trainers, it ranges from individuals… Continue reading
Every few days I go through my LinkedIn “Who’s seen your profile” list. Anyone who has visited, and has not connected with me, gets a message offering to help and asking them to do so. LI constrains the number of… Continue reading
WARNING – Slightly longer post than usual As some of you know, I am currently ‘executive lead’ for research within my professional body, The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy – Coaching Division (BACPC). I was recently asked to provide… Continue reading
I promise to stop posting anti-marketing assistant items soon, but there are lessons in this for all of us. This item just appeared on Facebook… It seems to me that this is just a bit of blatant jumping onto the… Continue reading
While I appreciate that Kellogg’s have a bit of a problem making the back of a cornflakes packet interesting, I do sometimes think that copy writers have a lot to answer for. I realise that they have to sell products… Continue reading
