There are some post-war council houses in Barry that are having their rooves stripped so that solar panels can be fitted. Next door there is a small brand new estate - not a solar panel to be seen.

The 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Junior's famous speech

Should young people be banned from travelling? Does anyone need to travel in the days of Zoom?

New analysis from McKinsey indicates financially successful companies that integrate ESG priorities into their growth strategies outperform their peers

It can take up to four years before we adjust fully to a significant transition, even one as apparently routine as a job change.

The first stage he called "unfreezing". In the second stage the change occurs. This is typically a period of confusion and transition. The third and final stage he called "freezing".

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a change management approach that focuses on identifying what is working well, analysing why it is working well and then doing more of it.

It is important to tailor every business plan to the particular circumstances of the company.

If employers and employees are willing to limp along with a situation akin to a size-ten foot in a size-six slipper, what does it really matter?

Visualisation refers to the process of forming mental images. Visualisation may utilise memories, fantasy, or a combination of both. In practice,

A simple model to explain how learning a skill goes through four stages.

Setting well-formed outcomes is an iterative process useful for goal setting and delegation.

Our senses are the doorways of our perception. All we know of the world we know through our senses. We have five main sensory modalities, or representation systems.

Precision questions challenge the way we express these patterns in our language, both internally to ourselves and in conversations with others.

.Perceptual positions provide a balanced approach to thinking about an event or outcome.

Reframing. is a powerful technique taught in NLP. Learn about reframing and discover 13 ways to reframe.

NLP provides us with a set of models of the world; they are called NLP presuppositions.; here is a list .

Discover the pre-suppositions and basic skills of NLP.

NLP is an incredibly powerful discipline that enables people to unblock the structures of human communication and human excellence.

We code our experiential reality with words, thus creating our reality. But we delete, generalise and distort information so it becomes disconnected from its deeper meaning.

As we go through life, we continually move through different emotional states. One of the best ways to understand states is to experience them.

Future pacing involves helping someone to imagine ‘walking through’ a process towards a goal, using their senses to ‘experience’ each stage along the journey.

Eye Accessing Cues relate to the various eye movements in certain directions that indicate whether an individual has primarily visual, auditory or kinaesthetic thinking.

Every moment of your life is an opportunity to change completely. Your beliefs. Your life’s direction. Your destiny.

This very effective model provides a simple basis for discussing the major aspects of its current situation and desired future, and thus identifying suitable interventions.

Individuals change their behaviour through the establishment of personal reference experiences and cognitive maps.

This is a process developed by Connirae Andreas and described in her book Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within.

Circle of Excellence can be used to elicit, create and stabilise desired states.

Understanding body language helps you interpret other people's gestures, improve effectiveness of your communication with others and influence your communication with yourself.

Our memory and power of recall deteriorates rapidly if we do not reinforce what we have learned.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.

The term lateral thinking was coined by Edward De Bono to denote a creative problem-solving style that involves looking at the given situation from unexpected angles.

The Empathy Map is both a framework and a technique, and it’s typically developed collaboratively by a diverse team by placing sticky notes on a wall.

Walt Disney developed a system to facilitate the creativity on which his business depended.

An important basic tool for effective board oversight, a governance framework provides a mechanism for board directors and senior management to have a clear understanding and oversight.

Open Space Technology (OST) is an approach to hosting meetings, conferences, corporate retreats, or symposiums, focused on a specific and important purpose or task.

The World Café is an easy to use method of fostering collaborative dialogue, particularly in large groups.

In a workshop environment this model helps identify issues that can then be discussed and resolved with a shared ownership, leading to increased co-operation and motivation.

Brainstorming is a group creativity technique that was designed to generate a large number of ideas for the solution of a problem.

Logical exercises involve the use of logic. They can be introduced into workshops for sorting information.

Kinaesthetic activities are ones that involve practical actions. Doing things.

One core skill for every business leader is the art of corporate story telling.

A storyboard is a sequence of images and words drawn together on a page to form a plausible narrative.

PwC and KPMG are leading the way in transparent corporate accountability. Here’s why you should follow in their footsteps.

Profiling can help build a balanced and effective board.

Board succession planning is a means for an organisation to ensure its continued effective performance through leadership continuity.

The board should undertake a formal and rigorous annual evaluation of its own performance and that of its committees and individual directors.

Organisational structure refers to the way tasks are divided up, how the work flows, how this flow is coordinated and the forces and mechanisms that allow this coordination to occur.

Effective company directors and boards are key to the long term success of an organisation.

The effectiveness of boards of directors is crucial – and yet many boards lack effective processes. The application of good governance can radically improve performance.

New director development: for managers who think they ought to be directors and directors who still think like managers.

These programmes are provided as an indication of what can be provided. All programmes will be designed or adapted to meet the specific needs and requirements of clients.

Professionalism in the boardroom plays a key part in the prosperity of any organisation.

Strategy planning and reviews require dedicated time away from day to day interruptions

Increasingly, corporate social responsibility is seen as part of best practice by both investors and government

Non-executive directors (NEDs) are members of the board of directors without executive responsibilities in the company

Companies with a premium listing at the London Stock Exchange are required to report on how they have applied the Corporate Governance Code.

Corporate governance is about what the board of a company does and how it sets the values of the company.

Individual directors and the board should promote goodwill and support of shareholders and other relevant interested parties.

There is an increasing need to take account of the interests of stakeholders.

Directors primary duty is to the shareholders – to maximising shareholder value. However . . .

Ensure that senior management's successes and failures are communicated to them, and that appropriate rewards, sanctions and training are implemented.

Internal control includes financial, operational and compliance controls and risk management.

The Memorandum regulates the external affairs of the company; the Articles of Association regulate its internal affairs.

All business involves risk. Companies have limited liability but directors retain personal responsibility and potential liability.

Membership of a board of directors is a great privilege - but it is accompanied by risks and responsibilities.

Directors have a duty under law to act in good faith.

Description of the many roles and types of director.

The size and composition of a board of directors will influence its style.

Dictionary definitions of company director and a description.

As a director, you are responsible for obtaining the information you need to become as effective as possible in your new role within the shortest possible time.

A coaching programme will normally start with an intake meeting, the first part of which might be attended by line managers and HR personnel as well as the client to be coached.

Business coaching is focused on the success of the business and is likely to include a mixture of short and long term objectives

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Top teams include chief executives, managing directors, whole boards of directors, heads of departments . . . Teams are built, and when individuals leave, or teams disperse, they grieve.

Executive coaching for directors is facilitative one-to-one coaching to help individual directors address specific professional development issues or to assist them in taking on a new role.

The features of modern organisations. Flatter organisational structures, broader management roles and lower job security have also been contributing factors to the growth of coaching.

Coaching is an integral part of the new performance-led culture of continuous development, with widespread application.

Coaching can take place face to face, both one to one and in small groups, or it can be delivered at a distance by telephone, Skype, Zoom, email or instant messaging.

One to one performance coaching is the way for both organisations and individuals to significantly impact the bottom line

Coaching at the top is cost effective and rapid – acting at the point of maximum leverage, where it can generate change and cascade behaviours through the organisation.

Strategy planning and budget preparation activities every year justify getting away from day to day interruptions.

Corporate social responsibility is defined by the European Commission as "the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society".

There is a story about a group o f students from Harvard Business School who visited NASA at Houston in the 1960s to learn about the application of vision, mission and values in space.

A well known speaker was asked by a large corporation to deliver the keynote speech at their annual conference.

The sudden dam collapse sent a river of waste pouring across the countryside of Minas Gerais state, killing more than 270 people.

Gerald Ratner, National Power and Tim Martin make damaging statements with serious consequences

Family offices are concerned with the wealth of a family, not directly with the specific and various businesses that are being managed by the family.

While the world burns governments talk. An epidemic in China and governments ignore. But a pandemic at home and they demonstrate what is possible. Are you guilty of similar neglect?

The Ministry of Tourism in Rome had a problem. It seemed that hundreds of cats prowled the city's famous sites, scavenging for food in trash cans.

The Good Business Charter was the idea of Julian Richer who is the initial funder and a trustee of the Good Business Foundation also.

Increasingly, the focus has moved from just vision, mission and values to "purpose". Why does the organisation exist.

The Business Roundtable redefines the purpose of a corporation to promote "An Economy That Serves All Americans"

How come China has offered to build the whole of the UK's planned HS2 railway in five years when the UK government expects it to take 20 years?

Broken Windows Theory was the brainchild of the criminologists James Q Wilson and George Kelling, who argued that crime is the inevitable result of disorder.

Japanese companies in the 1980s were looked upon as the models for business innovation. Yet in recent years, the Japanese economy has experienced a spate of corporate scandals.

Setting well formed outcomes is an iterative process that ensures that when a manager sets an outcome, or a subordinate agree to delegate a task, they are wholly congruent with the process.

The Risk Coalition has published (4 December 2019) its principles-based guidance for board risk committees and risk functions in the UK financial services sector.

As we transition into a new decade there are trends that will be of increasing importance to boards. Some were apparent in the closing years of the 2010s and others are relatively new on the scene.

During the late 2000s I was a member of the West Midlands Business Transport Group and each year I would attend a presentation by Network Rail on the West Coach Main Line.

Prince Harry recently announced that he and his wife, Meghan, would like to reduce their contribution to the Royal Family and in return take responsibility for earning their own income.