I was about to start writing an outline for the new Financial Education programme that I will deliver in Scotland with my colleagues from Speakersbank sponsored by a major global bank when an e-mail from the CIPD ( the UK body for HR professionals) arrived in my inbox which lead me to this ( incredibly detailed) article about [...]
At the start of the speaking skills training workshop I ran yesterday I asked the participants to score out of 10 how confident they feel about speaking in public at the start of the day. As is often the case most people will score themselves below 5. At the end of the day I ask them to [...]
Jo Jordan’s from Flowing Motion ’s comment on a previous post inspired me to explore this topic some more. Then I was writing on the theme of giving yourself credit for what you have learned .
Jo has spent time working in the education sector and is ideally placed to comment further – and I am [...]
I was surprised and really touched to read this post last week. Kaye’s comments made me smile. My instinct was to go down the “it was nothing” route but taking a moment to reflect if Kaye says that’s what I did how discourteous of me would it be to disagree?
Then I had a conversation with a [...]
On Saturday night we went along to the fundraiser ceilidh organised by a couple of the girls who play basketball for City of Edinburgh Club. Over the years I have been to many ceilidhs but never on as inspirational as this one. What made this one so special?
It might have been that the youngsters who [...]
