Jun
26
The challenges of establishing a great team
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The young people I have been coaching through the project for Oracle have included their story in the final presentation to the client.
In the early stages, when things were a bit - *ahem* - chaotic ,I pointed them to Tuckman’s “Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing” theory (amongst others) and I was delighted to find that they […]
Jun
6
Maximise your potential - use the technology available!
Filed Under Personal development, Personal awareness, Networking, young people | 3 Comments
Wally Bock in his Three Star Leadership Blog posted about young people helping him with a house move. It’s a great story in itself but I loved his observation
Young people are technologically-savvy in the way that fish are water- savvy!
I spent this afternoon working with young people exploring the uses for social networking in the […]
Jun
4
Impromptu speaking
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I have spent the day working with a group of people who have in some way been involved in Space Unlimited projects - including some young people. We were reviewing the benefits to all participants - teachers, the businesses, Space Unlimited itself and the coaches (of which I am one) - and of course, and […]
May
29
Young people speaking up for themselves
Filed Under Leadership, Active listening, young people, speaking | 2 Comments
I have spent the past few days in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands training young people aged 12 - 15 in speaking skills. They responded wonderfully -as young people we work with on the Speakersbank programme usually do.
Working in an island community has its own challenges though. Some of our participants had to take a […]
May
22
How much should a parent influence their children’s career choices?
Filed Under Career development, young people, World of Work | 4 Comments
I met up with former colleagues that I haven’t seen for a while . As is usually the case we got talking about our various offspring and what they are up to now. Compared to them I had my babies really young as they all still had kids in school. We started to chat about how […]