Maximise your potential – use the technology available!

June 6, 2008 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 [...]

Impromptu speaking

June 4, 2008 4 comments

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 [...]

Young people speaking up for themselves

May 29, 2008 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 [...]

How much should a parent influence their children’s career choices?

May 22, 2008 6 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 [...]

Young people as business consultants

May 20, 2008 5 comments

What do you think? Great idea? Or are you doubtful.
OK, I am playing with you here. I know this works. I have been involved  as a coach with Space Unlimited for about 3 years now . The young people I have worked with have risen to any challenge set. Their ideas have been great – [...]


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