The Rise of Remote Work and the Importance of Team Bonding Events Outdoors

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As remote work continues to become the norm, it’s essential to ensure that teams remain connected and engaged. That’s why I wanted to share with you all an excellent solution to this problem: Freshwalks!

Freshwalks is a unique team bonding experience that combines the benefits of walking outdoors with the opportunity to network and collaborate with like-minded professionals. With Freshwalks, your team can take a break from their desks and experience the beauty of nature while also building strong relationships with each other.

As more and more people work remotely, it’s crucial to invest in team bonding events that promote communication, collaboration, and overall wellbeing. By participating in Freshwalks, you’re not only improving team morale, but you’re also investing in your employees’ mental and physical health.

So if you’re looking for a way to bring your team together and create meaningful connections, I highly recommend giving Freshwalks a try. Your team will thank you for it!

#teamwork #remoteworking #Freshwalks #team #bonding #networking #collaboration #mentalhealth #physicalhealth #wellbeing

Adventure Based Learning Experiences (ABLE)

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ABLE is effective in helping organisations solve their most pressing people development challenges. ABLE enables a myriad of opportunities to effectively learn leadership, and team performance skills, which are impactful and memorable.

As they’re uniquely designed to fit an organisations needs, they not only provide a shared learning experience, they will highlight and change behaviours and attitudes quickly as well as build cohesion amongst a team.

Real change happens when leaders and teams work differently in some way.

Whilst the world, after several systemic shocks, is unquestionably more challenging the potential to harness commitment, collaboration and coherent decision-making under pressure, is profound.

The ability to adapt is no longer a ‘nice to have’. It has been elevated to an ‘essential to survive and thrive’ in the near and medium future.

Agile, Confident and Enterprising teams are at the heart of organisational life and their effectiveness strongly influences the success of the enterprise overall. Times are both challenging and for those with the correct mindset… exhilarating!

Secret Agent Missions & Training days will test and build each participants’ skills at strategising, prioritising, collaborating, communicating, thinking on their feet and; not over-thinking as they race against the clock to solve a mystery or rescue their kidnapped boss.

Give me a nudge if you’re intrigued.

#leadership #team #superteam #smallteamsmakethedreamwork #leaders #training #development #peopleandculture #adventure

What is the Elite Team Concept?

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Overcoming Zoom Fatigue & Enjoying Effective Online Meetings with Mission Power!

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With the desire for remote working from home increasing, then becoming a necessity due to Covid-19,

Richard Elwell and I discuss the complexity which makes online meetings an evolution in some ways but also a well-being challenge because it can be so exhausting.

We discuss the Mission Power Meeting Methodology and how this can be used to optimise the technology whilst also leveraging the potential for people to enjoy effective and rewarding online and face-to-face meetings.

Making Decisions Effectively & Why Politics is Pointless

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See below the video for a PDF download with some notes to help you understand this material. Download the notes then listen to the video as this would probably be the best way to understand the content.

New to all this self videoing so b with me while I learn the skills! 🙂

 

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Attracting Top Talent with ELITE Magnetism

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A challenge a lot of business leaders and entrepreneurs I work with face, is the ability to attract the calibre of people required for both peak performance and the successful growth of their business. In order to attract top talent, leaders must develop a culture which utilises what I define as: ELITE Magnetism. Read More:

RESILIENCE: “Who Cares Wins”

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I was reading a book last night by the “SAS ~ Who Dares Wins” television team on leadership. And like most people who’ve come out of conflict zones they’ve had to deal with the aftermath of emotional and physical trauma. Unfortunately the military machine isn’t adept as yet, with coping with the complexity of individual cases, but it is something they’re looking into.

As a leader it is important to care for the people you’re leading and yourself. Peak performance is subject to a cycle, there has to be an ebb and flow rhythm if you want to achieve a peak performance culture. You also need to have some tools to help both yourself and your team when you’ve been under pressure for long periods. Sure you need courage as a leader but you also need an equal balance of compassion.

From my own experience in the Special Forces and civilian life, I know READ MORE:

RESILIENCE… Oxford’s word of the year for 2017?

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stocksnap_0dtifdzwy8The Oxford English dictionary announced after much discussion and research, that the word of the Year for 2016 was post-truth.

It described post-truth as an adjective defined as

 ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’.

The word post-truth has been around for decades, but its usage spiked recently as a result of the Brexit referendum and the US elections. These two events combined with other daily news makes us all wonder if our environment, economy and society will survive. READ More

Developing Creative Brilliance in your Team (Part 4)

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“…the way you get the most out of every moment you have on the planet, whether that’s personal or for business, is by acquiring new skills and by becoming better at what you do” Tim Ferris

Working towards business freedom

A great question Tim Ferris asks himself is:

“What can I put in place so that I can go completely off the grid for 4 to 8 weeks?”

A lot of the entrepreneurs I’ve spoken with have experienced work exhaustion. It’s easy for them to fall into the trap of being the hero who solves most of the problems that arise in the business themselves. As such, the longest holiday an entrepreneur would consider going on is about two weeks because that’s just enough time for them to go away and get back in time to put all the fires out. Plus, with today’s technology, there isn’t really anywhere in the world that people can’t still work from.

This is the classic entrepreneurial myth that business consultant Michael Gerber talks about in his book, “The E-Myth Revisited”. Entrepreneurs start businesses so they can enjoy more time, money and freedom. But entrepreneurs usually experience the opposite and have less of all three.

To enjoy a 4-8 week holiday “off-grid” a leader has to put in place systems. But not only that. They’ve also got to empower the team with some tools that allows the organisation to not only survive the entrepreneurs individuating from the business psychologically, but thriving. READ More

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Developing Creative Brilliance in your Team (Part 3)

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Step 3 – Direction

One of my earlier professions was as a personal trainer. It was working with clients who aspired to be fitter and healthier that inspired my quest for knowledge of the mind-body connection.

Often I would be faced with new clients who’d been struggling with their weight for some time. As such they were totally convinced that they were not the exercising type. What I learnt early on is that it is pointless arguing with a person’s weakness. If they said they were not capable of running, I would agree.  If I tried to convince them otherwise, they would only dig their heels in and prove their point through non-compliance. What I did do however, was to manoeuvre around this stand-off by developing ways to align their mind, body and purpose into triggering ‘flow’ states. READ More