by Alisha Smith | Dec 3, 2018 | Article, Leadership, Learning, Other
The 2018 Shipping Report opened my eyes to some interesting ideas and got me thinking about unconscious bias in hiring and talent management. You can download a copy of the report from The Lighthouse Company website and also watch the 10 brilliant manifestos that we...
by Alisha Smith | Jul 9, 2018 | Article, Leadership, Learning, Other
One of the areas Sales Leaders were keen to cover in our latest Inspire programme was “Proactive Networking”. They had noticed that some in the team were ignoring the importance of widening and deepening their networks of industry contacts. The resulting...
by David Goldring | Oct 9, 2014 | Article, Happiness, Leadership, Learning
Kids were late for school on Tuesday, my fault, and I made our new schoolrun rota pal late too. Now I realise my error, but when I grabbed my phone from my son while doing a 3 point turn, to look at the map, I was cursing Jools. I had done her a favour, and she...
by David Goldring | Feb 15, 2013 | Article, Education, Happiness, Leadership, Other
Well like many of us, I was able to avoid the temptation of reposting it as suggested. Not only was I sceptical of Linked-ins motives, but I was wary of the methodology- and my own motives. Yet after seeing a few posts about it, and personal comments, I couldn’t...
by David Goldring | Feb 13, 2013 | Education, Happiness, Leadership
The evidence has been with us for some time; people who listen, get heard, yet people who don’t speak, aren’t listened to. Its not that simple, but the idea that you need both Introversion and Extraversion to persuade we’ve been championing for some...
by David Goldring | Nov 28, 2011 | Education, Leadership, Learning, Uncategorized
This weekend a number of challenging conversations led us to ponder how we can support colleagues and clients to use business tools to express themselves and reach their full potential. It was 11am in London, and a worried mother shot me a dagger look as I passed a...
