The 4 Characteristics of Snake-Oil Salespeople

Carl Sagan, in his excellent book, A demon-haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark, advises us to develop a finely honed baloney detector. It’s the sort of device that will help you avoid false claims, con artists, and snake-oil salespeople.

5 Steps to Creating Elite Teams in your Organisation

We’ve seen images of shadowy soldiers dropping from the sky. Every military and police force in the world has a space for elite teams. Teams that can do what others cannot. But businesses are beginning to see the advantages of elite teams…

3 Cognitive Biases that Influence your Decisions at Work

Whether you’re a manager of a large business unit, a team leader, or the HR Director of a listed company, you will be called upon to make judgement calls on people and issues almost daily.

Five Truths Behind Effective Human Resources

The Human Resources discipline has been around since the late 1890s, and yet to this day, it still wields low repute in companies. Many HR executives will tell tales of challenges and incessant eye-rolling when discussing HR issues with line managers…

Building a Powerful Personal Brand — Part 9: Three Pitfalls of Personal Branding

By now, you’re well on your way to building a powerful brand: you. Well done!

Today we’re going to chat about three common pitfalls that you need to be aware of when…

Building a Powerful Personal Brand — Part 1: Welcome to Brand You!

Welcome to the first part of our 10-part series on Building a Powerful Personal Brand. It’s going to be an exciting journey!

Building a Powerful Personal Brand — Part 10: Final Thoughts

Welcome to the final installment of our personal branding course.

It’s been an exciting 10 part journey for you, we hope, and today we’ll briefly look at some final ideas to cement the learning of the…

Influence In Meetings

In the leadership development programmes we run, we have a session called “Influence in Meetings”.

Essentially we place a group of people around a table, provide them with a problem to solve and then we watch what happens. At the end of the session we ask people to…