Start with the end in mind – Are you pushing rocks uphill? Pushing Rocks uphill I saw a post earlier this week from one of my contacts in recruitment, who said that being in recruitment at the moment is like pushing rocks uphill. I felt the pain because last year I wrote a blog about...Read More
Know your avatar Do you remember the “Share a coke” campaign? They changed the “traditional” wrapping around the Coke bottle to say ‘Share a Coke with…’ and a popular name. Essentially what Coke did was encourage people to buy a bottle of coke for their loved ones, with their name written on it. Clever! #ShareACoke...Read More
Dropping the ball In 1999, before “Google” was a verb, the second most popular search engine was Excite. One of Google’s founders, Larry Page, wanted to sell Google to Excite for a mere $750,000 if the company would agree to replace its tech with Google search tech. The Excite CEO at the time, George Bell,...Read More
The number 1 tool for ultra successful people Let’s play a guessing game… “In the second age of middle earth, the Lords of elves, dwarves, and men are given rings of power. Unbeknownst to them, the dark Lord Sauron forges the one ring in Mount Doom instilling into it a great part of his power...Read More
Beep Beep Beep… BANG. With your eyes still closed you rouse from slumber and smash your alarm to silence. It’s a quarter past an ungodly hour and you’re waking up early for yet another early breakfast meeting. Groggily, you head to the bathroom and jump head first into a hot shower. It’s dark outside,...Read More
A ‘Space to Think’ without interruption with diverse thinkers in a group setting. Continuous development is an important consideration for all of us as we settle into a work routine but don’t want to become settled in our thinking. BESPOKEN’s 2022 initiative is to open a group space to think. Since lock down, we have...Read More
How to create your business strategy : An Outside idea WHAT IS BUSINESS STRATEGY? How to create your business strategy. Your business strategy is the big picture view of how you want your business to operate, and defines what your business needs to do to reach its long term goals. Your strategy will help guide the decision-making process of...Read More
Change Your Breathing: Improve Sleep, Performance & Reduce Anxiety We all breathe anyway, right? But do we breathe correctly and why should we care? We don’t notice our breathing until things go wrong and that is what happened to me in 2016. I started experiencing severe panic attacks and sleepless nights for almost 18 months....Read More
Looking to grow? Get your culture right first If your business is growing, you’ll get to a stage where you need help to keep up. After outsourcing the easy stuff, like the books; we inevitably reach a stage where we need to find people that will be let loose on our customers. If you want...Read More
5 Steps: Get Change Ready It’s that time of the year when we are bombarded on social and in the media by the words, goals, resolutions and intentions. A new year can create a sense of pressure and external influences can leave us feeling that if we aren’t thinking about or planning change...Read More
