by Colin Dulson | May 6, 2020 | Blog, Business, Management
Recruiting Success Recruiting the right people for the right role can be a real challenge at the best of times. As industry emerges from lockdown, we recognise that there is bound to be some restructuring. Getting the best out of the subsequent shifting of...
by Colin Dulson | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Business, Leadership, Remote Working
Splendid isolation or cast adrift? Some of you will have been working from home for a while so the challenges and benefits of “splendid isolation” will already be familiar to you. But what if you and members of your team are finding it difficult and are all at sea in...
by Colin Dulson | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog, Business, Leadership, Leadership and Change, Learning and Engagement Activities
Company culture is now (rightly) recognised as a vital element of an organisation’s success. A good company culture allows employees to bring their true selves to work, setting the foundations for a happy team and real, tangible growth. Managers though, may struggle...
by Colin Dulson | Apr 15, 2020 | Business, Events, Leadership, Leadership and Change, Learning and Engagement Activities, Management
Our feet have hardly touched the floor this month.It’s the same with a lot of people and has a lot do to with school-term mentality – since childhood, we’ve had September ingrained as a time of new starts. New stationery! New school bags! New business and new...
by Martyn Mills | Aug 7, 2019 | Events, Leadership, Learning and Engagement Activities, Management
We’re delighted to be collaborating with world record holder Pauline Sanderson to create ‘World’s Longest Climb’- a motivational business event based on Everestmax, Pauline’s historic 8,000km voyage from the Dead Sea to Everest. The activity brings teams together in a...
by Martyn Mills | Mar 19, 2019 | Events
Insecurity is a very normal emotion. Feeling unsure at work is something that happens to everybody at certain points in their career. Facebook’s CEO Sheryl Sandberg has admitted to feeling like an imposter who should not be where she is, while multi-award...
by Martyn Mills | Jan 22, 2019 | Blog
Over the last year or so we have had many conversations with business leaders and teams about what wellbeing means to them. Wellbeing at work is so important. Workplace absence costs the UK economy £18bn a year, according to recent statistics – and absences due...
by Martyn Mills | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog, Business, Leadership, Leadership and Change, Learning and Engagement Activities, Management
There are all types of leaders. And in our line of work, we’ve worked with them all! At Berrison, we like to take best practice from all industries and apply that best practice – where relevant – to the sessions we provide for our clients: be they long...
by Martyn Mills | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog
The world of work has changed immeasurably over the last few years. Job shares, flexible working, extended parental leave, home working and sabbaticals have all taken many industries away from the old 9-5 – and rightly so. Just last week we were reading about...
by Martyn Mills | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog
We’re runners, here at Berrison. We love to run. Endurance running, marathon running, fell running, you name it – we are fans. Maybe that’s why we have a good approach to business development and coaching: the journey of a company is very like that of a run or a...
by Martyn Mills | Nov 22, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership and Change
I had a remarkable experience last week that I’d like to share with you. For the 3 decades that I have been a coach/trainer in the field of leadership. I have also practised various forms of Tai Chi and Qi Gung but have, as yet, never combined the two; up until now!...
by Martyn Mills | Sep 15, 2016 | Events, Leadership
What’s the connection between 67 Olympic medals for the UK in Rio and a lorry driver becoming an accountant? Countries and societies argue at length about the true legacy of any Olympics, be they in London or Rio. I would guess that if you were impoverished and...
