Rip It Up (and start again)

Rip It Up (and start again)

I’ve always felt that different sectors should collaborate and share expertise far more than they do.   Seeing how someone else completes a task might just be the trigger you need to solve a problem in your practice, or simplify a process. There may not be an...
Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners

I first met Bernie Mitchell at a Be2camp event and I’d always felt that he was about ten steps ahead of me in his use of social media.  If it took signing up for a course to find his secret it was a price I was willing to pay. So this week I found myself in the...
Fifteen

Fifteen

Today is a bit of a milestone for me as it marks the fifteenth anniversary of my business. Cast your mind back to the summer of 1996 – the Summer Olympic Games had just started in Atlanta, Wannabee by the Spice Girls was on the radio and the X Files were on TV....
Life is a Rollercoaster

Life is a Rollercoaster

Yesterday I used Twitter to ask the question “what is your top presenting tip?” as I was finalising the slides for my talk at the River Restoration Conference so presenting skills were very much on my mind. I had some wonderful responses so I thought I...
Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

When Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard’s characters meet for the first time at Milford Station, they have no idea how their relationship might develop. In David Lean’s romantic film the Brief Encounter of the title leads to an intense relationship, with an...