Wouldn’t It Be Amazing If…
Harriet Beveridge is Head of Performance Programmes, key-note speaker and co-author of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Harriet specialises in one-to-one and group executive coaching and is also a stand-up comic. We’re almost at the end of 2017 – take a couple of minutes before you read the rest of this blog to reflect back on […]
3 Benefits Of Change
Helena Wilton is a Business Development Manager for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? She is passionate about personal development and sport, working with a breadth of organisations to help them to find solutions to the challenges they face. Life without change Without change over the past 200 years, what would life be like? […]
Leading Change Through Storytelling
Jon Harding is a Senior Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? He has over 20 years’ experience as a business coach, team coach and facilitator. Jon has successfully worked with clients to improve leadership and team dynamics to create a high performance environment. What’s in a story? The story of Ben’s crew – […]
Marginal Gains – ‘One Percenters’
I talk a lot about being focused on performance or in other words, continuous improvement, having a performance mindset, marginal gains or ‘one percenters’. For the sake of this blog I’m not going to define and discuss the difference between these phrases, I just want to look at what they mean at a basic level […]
A Crazy Goal for a Crazy World
January 2017 and it really does feel as though the world is a slightly different place from the one I knew at the beginning of 2016. Via Brexit and the US Presidential elections especially, we are all going through, to one degree or another, a period of change and reflection which is evoking mass feelings […]
3 ways Successful People Deal with Change
Experiencing change We all experience change in our lives. Whether it’s in the form of a change at work or a change in our personal lives. If you have experienced frequent change, you may have come to the conclusion that from time to time taking active steps to bring change prevents it being forced upon you. […]
How to Prepare for Change – 3 Essential Steps
Essential guidance – change There are many resources and tactics for managing organisational change. How we think about change, and the words we use when we talk about it, have a huge impact on whether particular change will happen successfully – or not. Before any change begins, it is critical that you convince other people and, even more […]
Managing Organisational Change
Strategies for managing organisational change How do you manage change within an organisation? There is no shortage of articles out there offering advice. A quick Google search for ‘Managing organisational change’ returns over 4 million results. However, if someone approached me with that question I wouldn’t point them to Forbes or HBR. Instead I’d […]