I attended a Train to Gain consultants’ briefing last week and was surprised to hear how difficult it can be to give away free money. Organisations employing less than 250 people generally qualify for a £1000 grant towards leadership and management training. For a small firm this is a significant amount of free money, yet …
Canoeing down the River Orb in Southern France, it struck me what a powerful team building activity this was. Two men in a boat, my brother-in-law Richard and I set off with little idea of what we were doing other than our destination was four hours downstream. Launching the canoe went rather well, but within …