Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category

A management and leadership training formula for happy people…just for you Mr Cameron

Posted by Liz McKechnie

Well you could blow me down with a feather…

It’s a sweet idea.

While the population of this country is still trying to work out what the future holds as they take in the implications of overwhelming cuts to their budgets – the Guardian reports today:

The UK government is poised to start measuring people’s psychological and environmental wellbeing, bidding to be among the first countries to officially monitor happiness.|

Far be it from me, but it strikes me that now might not be the best time, Mr.Cameron…just saying… Read more

Building Strong Teams

Posted by Bronia Szczygiel

Like millions of other people I was glued to the television screen last week watching the Chilean miners being slowly winched to safety. I reckon you could have walked into a room anywhere in the country and asked “How many?” and someone would have known what you meant.

It was a magnificent feat of engineering, technical and medical know how. More importantly it was a powerful demonstration of a team effort.

That got me thinking about team building. How do you build a team that can achieve awesome results?

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