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What is Your Authentic Story? by Sarah Jameson
Every person has unique gifts, abilities, purposes, preferences and has had a life and working journey that holds valuable stories inside them. These stories, whether they be victories and high...
How to Make Yourself Heard on Twitter
Imagine you’re at a networking event, hoping to make new contacts. Would you grab a megaphone and tell everyone in the room about yourself? Or perhaps identify a couple of approachable people and...
‘In the Spotlight’ Interview with James Endersby
This week we're speaking to WordPress wizard, James Endersby to unearth what it takes to create a site fit for purpose and discover his secret to teaching the uninitiated. You focus on building...
Shaping a Culture for Millennials – by Vanessa O’Shea
Vanessa O’Shea is a leadership consultant with a passion for seeing people work to their unique strengths. Here she discusses how important it is for us to shape a culture for Millennials. "I always...
In the Spotlight Interview with illustrator Cherry Denman
Cherry Denman trained at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Drawing before going on to the Royal College of Art where she gained her MA. Cherry later taught art at Dorset Art College and City and Guilds in...
In the Spotlight – interview with Vanessa O’Shea
What does culture mean in organisations? Culture describes the environment in which behaviours are either encouraged, or not tolerated. It comes from the organisation’s values, beliefs, written and...
Our brains work in a similar way to lego blocks – Therapist and Consultant Adam Pearson explains
A mathematician recently noted that if you take 6 standard lego blocks there are 915 million ways of putting them together. And hence I suppose the choice: follow the instructions, or go solo -...
In the Spotlight Series – Interview with author Catherine Sampson
Cathy, you have written four adult crime novels and two children, so let me start by asking why crime? Crime has a lot going for it. There's nothing like a dead body to pose all the questions that...
Three Fundamentals of Creative Thinking
Believe in your creativity We are all born creative, and then we spend many years learning not to be. So step one is the most fundamental: allow the creativity back in. Make a list of things that...
To kick off our interview series we’re speaking to Alex Pearson, the Founder and Director of The Yurt Academy, to unearth what inspired her to launch.
Hi Alex, to begin, can you briefly describe The Yurt Academy to us? The Yurt Academy is about exploring curious and creative, practical, professional and personal development. There are so many...