Learning from failure is important. Learning from life experience is just as important. How do you learn from a potentially fatal car crash? When this happened to Heather several years ago, her work on resilience, positive thinking and taking control of the controllables proved to be...
If we have had a poor night’s sleep, we can struggle to concentrate at work, make mistakes, have poorer exam or test results, and our response times can be slower. Insomnia problems are medically proven to have a significant effect on our mental and physical health, and...
Join our October BookFest to gain invaluable conversation skills, discover the five pillars to wake up, and know "It's OK" as over fifty public figures share their experiences on dealing with their mental health. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James...
In 2001, just after he took over the small family business, Dani Reiss decided to rebrand “Snow Goose” to “Canada Goose”, and commit to always producing their key product, parkas, in Canada. By identifying this clear purpose of quality homegrown apparel, Reiss formed the strategy...
Every day we seem to have a new political headline around the ominous date of Brexit. The number of Cabinet Ministers and MPs who have resigned, changed party, or their long-held values is mind boggling. But it is also worrying because of the impact on...
In 1943, Abraham Maslow, one of the foremost researchers in psychology, published his paper A Theory of Motivation in which he divided human needs into D (Deficit) Needs and B (Being) Needs. The D Needs are the categories when the need is missing and we require it...
Resilience is a regular speaking topic for our director Heather Wright as the skill is one of the key indicators of success, strong leadership, and enables the individual to deal more effectively with change, challenges, and manage stress levels. It is defined as the ability to cope...
Resilience is recognised as one of the most important skills we need in business today as we face the challenges, technological changes and merging of our work/personal lives. But resilience has always been essential for our survival. Channel 4 recently commissioned a a TV show called ‘Mutiny’,...