Lessons from Tiger Woods
In 2009, Fortune magazine asked Tiger Woods, among others, for the ‘best advice I ever got’. The replies were often very interesting.
This blog looks at the advice Tiger Woods was given and why it was so enlightening for him.
Nando’s — Happy People are the Key
Nando’s is a popular restaurant chain in the UK, specialising in spicy chicken. Some years ago they undertook research to find out what were the key factors that explained why sales at some of their restaurants grew faster than at others.
Excel Hints & Tips – Mixing Absolute + Relative mode
How do you record a macro that will copy data from a set area on your spread sheet and then paste it into the first available empty row, in an ever increasing list?
Excel Hints & Tips – Line Breaks in a Cell & Cell Formats
Sometimes you may want to add text in Excel that’s spread over multiple lines. Find out how to do this, or how to remove these, in this week’s blog by Happy trainer Ian Balboa.
Delivering Transformational Training Under Pressure
Friday was such a joy for me. It was the final day of our
TPMA Train the Trainer course
which culminates in an assessment to be accredited by the Learning and Performance Institute.
Choose Your Manager — My Radio 4 Four Thought Broadcast
“49% of the UK working population would take a pay cut to have a different manager.”
Calculations on a Filtered List in Excel
Auto filter is a wonderful thing isn’t it? With a few clicks of the mouse little dropdowns appear letting you filter your data in a myriad different ways.
In this blog, learn how to create a dropdown filter in your Excel spreadsheets.
Radio 4 Four Thought: Let People Choose Their Managers
Below is the script of the talk for Radio 4’s Four Thought, broadcast on 22nd May 2013.
Listen to it here
As I talked from prompts it won’t be exactly the same. But this is roughly what I planned to say:
Being a Best Practice Manager
I was recently facilitating day two of a Leadership and Management programme for a group of managers and one of the things that struck me was how much they had learnt and remembered from day one!
What was also impressive was just how much they had actioned back in the workplace before coming back for day two.
