Expressions and behaviour at workshops
Now that the dental workshop series has concluded, I look back and reflect on the “attitude” of the clients in each day delivered. An interesting change is that we are now staggering the start dates of our 4 quarterly workshops, so that different regions begin at different points in the year. This allows continuous marketing [...]
Belfast on Friday
Last day of the dental workshops and I am definitely “de-mob happy” (if you don’t know what that means email and ask me). Its a lovely sunny day here in Northern Ireland and I’m looking forward to a pint of the black stuff at 5.00pm, before flying back to Manchester and packing for my lunchtime [...]
Energy at workshops
When the workshop room is a collection of bright faces, when the delegates participate with challenging questions, when they laugh at the jokes (and make some) and when they clearly “get it”, then my energy at the end of the day is higher than at the start – no matter how tired I am and [...]
A relaxing day in Scotland
Monday’s Edinburgh workshop was a nice relaxing change as there were only about 15 people in the room. We are just starting to make an impression in Central Scotland after many years of patient waiting for the embedded NHS mentality to begin shifting – its interesting that the Government’s new proposals for Health Service dentistry [...]
More on leadership
Another insight on leadership today in our Edinburgh workshop. Leadership is the communication of vision and the example of behaviour. That works well for me. The start of another week of workshops – Edinburgh, Watford, Reading, Belfast. And off to Canada on Saturday to meet with Coaching Business School clients in Toronto next week and [...]
I love workshops
Its such a blast – 80+ people in Leeds today and we laughed, worked hard and covered business finance and team building. Workshop delivery is one of my unique abilities and a place I love to be – no matter how “tough” life is, entertaining an audience who appreciate what you do – and seeing [...]
Leadership and management
I am pondering the distinction between leadership and management. Managers create, monitor and measure systems. Leaders inspire people. Many of my clients in dentistry are poor at management (they have few measurable systems) and do no leadership at all. A few of them are excellent managers with robust systems. A small minority are leaders. Your [...]
The Flora London Marathon 2005
Completed in 4 hours and 53 minutes with my running partner (and first-timer) Gill Onley. My 14th Marathon and a metaphor – no matter how tough it gets – you can reach your finish line if you have the attitude, skills and knowledge.
Fail fast – succeed quickly
A phrase I read in one of my client’s ezines this week. I especially reflected on how often we do not fail fast enough – we know that a business or a relationship isn’t working – and yet we sustain an increasingly futile and complex effort to find a solution. Why? Because we are either [...]
Surrender
The most useful thing I learned yesterday was that sometimes life becomes so complicated that our attempts to control events are futile. My client Traci Cleary sent me her newsletter yesterday, in which she reminded her readers that, in those moments of overwhelm, we must “surrender” to events for a while – stop controlling and [...]
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