This week I’ve been helping a couple of my clients prepare for important, career progression presentations which, all being well, will...

The use of interleaving is now viewed by many educational experts as having some advantages over blocking as an effective way to improve...

Léna is a 30-something, mid-level executive, based in Budapest and working as a senior project lead for a multinational fintech. Like...

At this time of year, many of us are thinking about making (or, God forbid, breaking) our new years’ resolutions. Language learners are...

The term resilience, as in ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties or toughness’ gets used a lot in a business context and...

I’ve developed an interest in Basketball. Not, I hasten to add, that I’ve taken up playing or even know much about the game. My youngest...

Why do managers continue to get demonised? This recent Linkedin post is a good example. Is it really the case of that you're either one...

Although the role of followership in enabling leaders to lead is well known, followership still doesn’t seem to feature widely within L&D...

Do small businesses in the UK spend enough time on skills development? From a quick (and very un-scientific) scan of the internet it...

Does mentoring help organisations achieve their diversity and inclusion objectives? There’s a large body of academic and industry opinion...

A large proportion of us have or will experience mental health issues during our lifetime. Estimates of the cost of mental health to UK...

It’s probably the data geek in me but I’m always interested in performance rankings and especially when they’re international . I...

I recently watched a TED talk given by Chip Conley, a US entrepreneur and author, about his experience of reverse mentoring while working...

As with so much else in the world of mentoring, there’s ongoing debate about the benefits of an informal versus a formal approach and...

Extending the quote from 'Death of a Salesman' most sales staff these days rely on much more than a "smile and a shoeshine" but the...