Prioritising in business How to make prioritising a priority in business In the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey tells the story of a professor who takes a jar and fills it up with big rocks. He holds the jar up for his students to see and asks them if it’s full. The...Read More
Focus on solutions, not problems Do you complain too much? The story of the wise man and the same old jokes There was once an old wise man who liked to walk…He walked far and wide, but always set off from the same point. On his regular journeys out of town, he’d often come...Read More
An outside idea: Why neurodiversity is good for business. Bill Gates, Andy Warhol, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein… Do you know what they have in common? ASD. ASD – Otherwise known as Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive, communicate and interact with others. There are approximately 700,000...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
An Outside idea : Start with Culture This week at Networking in… we were joined by a very special guest. Richard Kennell is the Founder and CEO of SOFEA; an Oxfordshire based social enterprise that has gone from 4 to 90 staff in 8 years. He also happens to be my old business studies teacher....Read More
Create a winning plan in 7 steps Are you ever plagued by a disease of distraction that keeps you jumping from one exciting project to another without actually getting much done. I am! Let me help you Create a winning plan in 7 steps. Do you ever find yourself getting distracted by new projects or...Read More
