Business to Business Praise

No business is an island, we’re all connected and in this post I’m singing the praises of three businesses each embodying different qualities that might be worth doing to a greater extent in your business. Stretching thinking – D’Almaine My work straddles B2C and B2B worlds and when I decided it was time to put a corporate face on my B2B work I called designer Gail D’Almaine. The bright, warm creative and comes highly recommended and her work speaks for itself. She shoots... Read More

Power of Praise

Hands up if you think lots of nice thoughts about people but don’t always share them? Some clever statistician has worked out that performance at work increases by 39% when we give informal feedback about people’s strengths compared to a decrease of about 27% when we give feedback focussed on what people don’t do well. I run coaching workshops for managers to get quality feedback happening more often in their organisations. Last week I was with RBS in Bristol... Read More