Do you test against all of the key factors that will determine whether someone will succeed or fail in recruitment? If you are not testing for internal dialogue then I believe you do not, and this may be having a significant impact on your business. Read the rest of this entry »

Thank you to a Sunday Times article over the weekend for inspiring me to write this. It was actually a feature in most of the national papers because it was in connection to Jamie Oliver and his new TV series called Dream School. The main thrust of the article I read however was around his comments describing the UK’s young workers as ‘wet’, meaning they were less capable of working as hard as those from abroad.
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It’s always great to be in the presence of people who have really made it, are enjoying it and happy to share their insights. This is exactly where I found myself over the weekend when I attended a one-day business event, featuring many multi-millionaire entrepreneurs including Dragon’s Den’s James Caan. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently took my two little nephews ice-skating at the Natural History museum, which was lots of fun, but at times painful to watch. My nephews actually took pleasure in falling over, squealing in delight every time, invariably bending their legs and knees in such a way that did not look possible, let alone enjoyable. Read the rest of this entry »

As a trainer consulting to the recruitment industry, I am often asked whether our training effects long-term change. Normally this derives from a more general skepticism of training, often the result of memories of previously ineffective training. Read the rest of this entry »

When most people think about mindset they think of something that is individual. They don’t tend to think of mindset as being something that can equally apply to a group, even though most of us have had plenty of experience of this.

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