Simi Gandhi-Whitaker (Director of Connected Workspace, Mitie) welcomed the audience and raised the challenges of “bringing tech and data together to drive strategic decisions.” Liz Kentish continued the theme as Facilitator, posing the question about “how do we harmonize technology?” Before suggesting that “digital and analogue technologies can happily co-exist.”…
Doesn’t it always rain in Aberdeen? Well no, not this time. This time we took the sunshine with us. A trip to the East Coast to meet with a prospective new client meant 2 days out – who knew how few flights there are from England to Aberdeen?? On our…
By Liz Kentish. It occurred to me this week that very often when I go into a meeting or I am preparing a meeting room for a days training, that there are always people who turn up early and plonk themselves down at the table and after a grunted greeting,…
At my school everyone in my year at the moment has to do a week of work experience. I chose to do my work experience at Kentish and Co, they are a training and development company. The company is run by my aunt and uncle. On the Monday we travelled…
Panic, frustration, anger and feeling downright undervalued were just a few of the emotions that made up my morning today. Let me tell you how it all began. It was a wet and chilly morning in Walthamstow, we were preparing to drive home to Stamford after a few days on…
Last Friday I bought myself a new top, very smart, from Next, which I decided I’d wear for a photo shoot Dave and I were participating in the next day at The Studio in Whittlesey – which you’ll get to see soon! The day started well and the first set…
A mortgage broker was helping me with my remortgage at home. My wife and I are a pretty complicated mortgaging case (we’d make a good case study in the Sunday papers, I wonder why they haven’t called…?). We’re both self-employed, so no two years’ income are ever the same; and…
Let’s face it; we all have a tendency to make assumptions from time to time, about people and about situations. Our assumptions come from all sorts of things – our experiences, other people’s experiences, the media, current jokes, hearsay, even films and books. Let me share a couple of personal…
The ability to listen, not just hear but listen and absorb what is being said is one of the most important skills a coach can master. We are not natural listeners, during a conversation most people are already working out what they are going to say in response; they’re not…
If you want to find out something, ask a question. Children do it instinctively and they will keep asking, digging and digging until they get an answer that satisfies them. As a coach, questions, or rather the right questions at the right time are as powerful a tool as listening.…
