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If Your Business Were a Shoe, What Would It Be?

Activity Aim The aim of this activity is to allow participants an opportunity to discuss how they see their business, department, team or other issues based upon using a shoe...

My Shoe Represents How I Feel About My Role in Our Team

We've used this activity many times with teams to help them understand the landscape they work within may not be quite like they perceive it to be. The team landscape is for e...

Change Your Scenery and Understand What's Going On in Your CEX

If you have ever moved house or changed workplaces you'll know how much more sensitive you are to your surroundings. You become heightened and sensitised to new experiences an...

The Most Powerful Activity you Can Use to Demonstrate Shared Vision

A few years ago, I met with the MD of John Lewis's flagship store on Oxford Street, London. Sales were slipping and the store was lacking in other key areas including the cust...

Line Up, Line Up - Get Yourselves Sorted Out

This is a short and simple (can be made more difficult) group challenge that asks participants to arrange themselves in a line according to certain criteria. These criteria c...

How Many Ways Can You Tie Shoe Laces?

Activity Aim The aim of this activity is to get participants to think about how routine many of their choices are when it comes to offering customers solutions to problems an...

Face to Face Training - Is It Dead?

For over 25 years I have designed, developed and delivered courses, workshops and short learning sessions to help people build their skills, increase their knowledge and chang...

Creating My First Online Course - Where Do I Begin?

If you are new to the online learning arena and are considering developing a course for your organisation or to generate additional income for yourself by selling your experti...

Our Experience of Going From Face to Face Training to Online Delive...

In 2001 we embarked upon our first journey into online learning with a membership site targeting the automotive sector, car dealers in particular. This was pre-Facebook and Yo...

How to Pivot Your Business Offer to the Online World

OK we're in this together. We're all having to reinvent everything we do.  "We're going to have to cancel this" is being said by millions of trainers, coaches, and consultant...

When is the Perfect Time to Shift to Online Training for Franchises?

CoVid19 is causing exceptional chaos and misery across nations and within communities and families.   I write this in the midst of the Italian lockdown, experiencing at firs...

Using Quizzes and Other Interactive Assets in Your Online Courses

One of the key roles we play in teaching students in any subject is to ensure we engage them throughout our courses AND that we have ways to assess what they have learned. Usi...

Too Busy To Create Your Own Online Courses? This Could Be the Perfe...

So you've heard about creating online courses as a means to generate income or build your brand. But what are your options for making it all happen? If you've been following o...

Research Reveals “The Real 4 Secrets To Online Success”

Warning! Warning! This is a recommendation from a raving fan so I'm biased.  I’m here to share with you an amazing opportunity that is too good NOT to share. If you are a c...

How to Make Franchise Training Engaging and Effective

In this post, we discuss some of the challenges franchise holders when it comes to training franchisees. We'll give you some tips on where to start and where to get further su...

Why Your Business Needs a "Signature Dish" Like This

I know of a great place to eat that does the most amazing steak and ale pies, The Weighbridge Inn situated in the beautiful Cotswolds between Nailsworth and Avening. They've b...

The Broken Email Activity

Communication is the key to all successful relationships whether in the family, community, at work or with customers. Telling employees they need to communicate should be a n...

How to Turn a Disaster into a Great Customer Experience

Car dealers have received some pretty poor press over the years and perhaps rightly so. But there are examples of businesses that now demonstrate great examples of how to WOW ...

Discovering Your Brand's Emotional Footprint

If your business was a shoe how would it feel to walk in? Would it be tight and pinch you? Does it have awkward characteristics that rub and irritate customers? Are some tr...

15 Ways to Make Your Courses and Workshops More Engaging

After over 25 years working in training and development, I've experienced hundreds of different techniques applied in teaching, training, and facilitation. I've experimented w...
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