After 17 years of freelance consulting, working with over 100 different organisations in 65 countries around the world, I have taken a full-time 2-year contract with the Motor Neurone Disease Association as a Local Campaigns Coordinator. This means that over 2018 and 2019 I won’t be able to take on …
Coaching and mentoring aim to help individuals achieve their full potential. While coaching is usually focussed on specific outcomes and mentoring being more open-ended, the terms are often used interchangeably as they use similar techniques. To be an expert coach or mentor requires a good understanding of effective learning – …
Communications are crucial to success but getting the desired response from your audiences is not easy, whether you want to promote your organisation and its services, change public attitudes and behaviours, influence government policy or simply raise awareness. Fortunately, there is a lot of recent evidence about what works from …
To facilitate means to make things easier. As a facilitator, I help groups of people to reach agreement or achieve a joint purpose. This may happen in a conference, a workshop or some other meeting (or series of meetings). The participants may be members of a single team, or from …
