The Joyful Meeting Formula (or how to hold productive meetings that don’t destroy everybody’s will to live)
Bad meetings are like bad sex. You start off with high hopes of a mutual coming together and leave feeling deflated and dissatisfied. Everyone hates bad meetings. Bad meetings are soul-destroying. They sap your will to live. If it’s not that annoying...
“A large chair does not make a king” – The four fundamental flaws of leaders that fail
In September 2013 David Moyes took over as manager of Manchester United from his predecessor, Sir Alex Ferguson (the most successful manager in Premiership history – and that’s hard for me to say as a West Ham fan!). Moyes took over the same team that had...
The 5 Primary Principles of PowerPoint Presentations to help you create slides your audience will love
‘People who know what they are talking about don’t use PowerPoint’ – Steve Jobs You walk into the meeting room and you notice the white screen pulled down, projector on, and middle manager Johny stands beaming with clicker in hand. Suddenly...
The 5 Habits of Highly Charismatic People (or how to communicate with charisma even though you’re not a movie star)
There’s nothing quite like Charisma! Difficult to describe and impossible to define, still we know it when we see it. It’s the man with the magnetic aura that shifts the dynamics of any room he enters without saying more than a few words; it’s the...