Performance Under Pressure Dinners
On February 1st and 2nd Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? were delighted to host Performance Dinners with our friends and partners from a host of different organisations. Joining us were CEO’s, MD’s, HRD’s and more from organisations such as Rolls Royce, Imagination Technologies, HobbyCraft, Laurent Perrier, Tokio Millenium, Jewson and Brunel University to […]
Mastering Significant Change
Top tips for dealing with change head-on I made the rather worrying calculation the other day that I have been working since 1988 – yes, that’s right, 1988! – in the world of leadership development and employee engagement. The fresh-faced Tom Barry that left a management role in the emerging electronics industry went onto two […]
Bouncebackability – Motivate Yourself to Come Back Stronger
By Jenny Bletcher, at Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Ltd Bouncebackabilty With the events of the last few months in mind, in the face of huge uncertainty and unknown setbacks, we will all have the opportunity to motivate ourselves to come back stronger. The question is simply, how? We’ve all experienced setbacks at […]
Improving Business Performance – Strategies that Work
Improving business performance – Back to basics The end of September marks the beginning of the end of the year. It’s an excellent time to take a step back and review how you have performed over the last 9 months and, crucially, consider how you will improve that performance in Q4 and into next year. It can […]
Improving Business Performance – The Stroop Test
Business performance and Focus. How flexible is your brain? Do you find it easy to focus on the important things that are in front of you or do you feel constantly bombarded by distractions that prevent you from doing your best work? To test your ability to focus on what’s important take a look at the […]
Business Growth Strategies: Byron Hamburgers – Making The Boat Go Faster
Business Growth Strategies Achieving business growth is a significant challenge for many businesses. Achieving consistent business growth, over many years, in a crowded and competitive sector can be even more difficult. That’s why we were delighted to see this article in the Daily Telegraph about Byron Hamburgers’ plans to almost double in size in the […]
Richard Branson’s Guide to High Performing Teams
Richard Branson knows more than most people about how to establish, grow and maintain a successful business. Branson understands that one of the keys to business success is finding talented people and then providing them an environment in which they can work at their very best. His Virgin Group employs over 50,000 people around the […]
Improving Business Performance – Focus on what’s Important
Advice on improving business performance People in business are incredibly busy these days – simply doing the work that’s in front of them. We all have so many emails, phone calls, meetings and recurring tasks to complete every single day that it can be difficult to focus on what’s important – to concentrate on the […]