It’s not often you get the chance to experiment with charcoal and Playdoh in the normal working day. Unless of course you’re an artist. But a Team Awayday should be fun and different and help people to see their colleagues in a different light. And if the aim is to enhance teamwork, communication and creativity,…Read the full article

It was shocking last week to learn from a BBC Survey that there has been a 63% drop in entries for GCSE French since 2002 and a 67% drop for German. Why don’t pupils in the UK want to learn French and German anymore? Well, for the last 20 years or so they have been…Read the full article

Have you come across Patrick Lencioni’s excellent work on the Five Dysfunctions of a Team? He describes five problems which build on one another, the first dysfunction being Absence of Trust – a fear of making oneself vulnerable by being open with colleagues about weaknesses, mistakes, fears and behaviours. Without trust, 4 other dysfunctions are…Read the full article

What does it take to persuade you? Watching recent coverage of the Scottish Referendum debate has made me wonder what it takes to persuade a wavering voter to decide for or against independence. The strength and clarity of the argument is a key factor, of course. But what about the speaker and how much we…Read the full article

The Three Little Pigs filmed as a political satire for a team awayday on Handling Change? Weird but wonderfully effective! The setting was the Disability Resource Centre (DRC) at Cambridge University where staff were digesting news of potentially huge changes to their work. Not only this, but they were also gearing up for a move…Read the full article