Combine training with leadership to inspire your staff
Team leaders need to take an active part in maintaining morale – it’s not enough for them to remain isolated at their desks and assume employee motivation will be maintained. They need to be out there ‘on the floor’ supporting their staff, listening in to calls and offering quick tips to improve performance, providing effective […]
Happily Ever After
Prepare to cringe with affectionate approval! I must confess I’m an absolute sucker for happy endings – it must be the Piscean in me. Crescendos of emotional music and a final much-anticipated kiss really make a film for me. I’m just a complete romantic at heart! The other week I came across a story that […]
Fancy a snuggle?
When you think of a treasured memory people like to have photographed, you may be thinking that there’s only so much you can do…pregnant mothers, family photos, maybe even a fancy model photo-shoot of yourself, looking drop dead gorgeous!? However, a little family from Alabama has created something amazing by simply twisting the norm a […]
Price is not the be-all & end-all
How are the price wars going in the high street near you? You’ve probably seen Topshop, H&M and Zara going at it hammer and tongs with window displays of late, although I bet you’ve never seen anything quite like this, which I stumbled upon recently: http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/07/high-street-price-war-97p-store-holds-95p-sale-against-99p-rival-4824153/?ito=v-b In Barking, Essex, a 97p store opened up right […]
Just how unique are YOU?!
Creating a unique selling point for your business can be a tough challenge – unless of course you’re Richard Branson! After all, it is the force that drives your business. A great USP will radically improve the positioning and marketability of your company. It will set you apart from competition, persuade others to use your […]
Neknominations – the new online craze!
So I was reading about this new online craze a while back that had me seriously scratching my head. It’s called ‘Punch 4 Punch’, and it basically involves two people being videoed taking it in turns to punch each other in the same spot over and over again. The first person to give up has […]
The car of tomorrow – TODAY!
Something very exciting is happening – did you read about it the other week? A new type of car……..not just a new shape or model. A self-driving car! Now, I know what you’re thinking……yeah sure, it’s one of those things that will never happen. However, set aside your doubts because the self-driving cars will be […]
Come out of your shell!
I was browsing the news a while ago and among all the doom and gloom, there was one headline that really made me chuckle… “US police detain giant tortoise after brief chase” A brief chase?! Apparently, a giant tortoise who goes by the name of Clark, gave the police a run for their money through […]
Are you a sprouting success?
One man from Warwickshire had a crazy idea that sprouted out of thin air… Stuart Kettel from Balsall Common, West Midlands decided to embark on a mission to push a Brussels sprout up Mount Snowdon using only his nose! He trained for this challenge by pushing a sprout around his garden with nothing but his […]
Learn from the cheeky greengrocer
Imagine if you could make your product more popular simply by adding something that hardly cost you anything and didn’t actually make the product any better? Now stop imagining – and start thinking. Because you can do it. And a man called Yao Yan has the holes in hands proof that it IS possible. Here’s […]
