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Back in January, when I thought I already knew how to wash my hands properly, I chose 'enjoy' as my #oneword for 2020.

Thomas Paine, a 1700s political activist in the US, famously said, the pen is mightier than the sword. That’s because words change the...

Leadership is central to what we do at The Training practice. Many of the conversations we have come back to leadership—of projects,...

Can helping help you? That's a question I posed in a webinar recently—thinking about how to make the most of helping at work. The short...

A few weeks back we decided to up our quiz game. Not content with simply ploughing through the Stuff quizzes, we decided that on Fridays...

One of the great joys of life for me is browsing library and bookshop shelves. You don't know what you'll come across, what you'll learn...

For the past few months, conspiracy theories have been running wild about what 5G networks are and aren't doing (newsflash: they do not...

At Hilary's Tea & Toast webinar on Build an agile mindset she quoted Mike Tyson. In the lead-up to a fight, Tyson was asked about how he...

I was going to start this blog with - Now's the time for creative thinking - but that misses the point. We shouldn't wait for a crisis to...

I heard this phrase on RNZ National over the weekend—it was used to talk about the illusion of perfect relationships. Philosopher Alain...

Why fresh? Our starting point is the whole organisation. From there, we've weaved together agile ideas from all over.  We're not...

I had another good read through this article over the weekend: Business recovery from disaster: A research update for practitioners by...

Advice is coming thick and fast right now. I've taken plenty of advice on technology for new ways of working. Other, equally important...

We use Patrick Lencioni's work on teams in our face-to-face workshops. The concepts from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are relateable...

If your inbox is anything like mine, then in the past month it's been completely bombarded by every company you've ever interacted with...