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The role of a leader in training

If you are a people leader, how do you show up to training with your team? At Adapt, we only run in-house training – that is, we run the training for groups withi...

My definition of productivity

I have been running personal and team productivity training for almost twenty years. Recently, a client asked me to run some training for their team, but they asked ...

Try not to waste group time

Today I wasted 1,000 minutes of other people’s time! That is 16.66 hours of collective time. Two full working days! I feel bad about this, even though it was out o...

How The Oscars can teach us how to communicate

'And the award for best picture goes to…La La Land’. Oops! Many of you will remember the terrible gaffe at the 2017 Academy Awards where Warren Beatty and Faye ...

Don’t make it more complex than it is!

I learned a good lesson this week. Or rather, I relearned a good lesson, because this is stuff that I teach people. Sometimes, I just forget my own strategies. A cl...

Creating equality in your hybrid meetings

We can all see how the way we work has changed in so many ways over the last year, and I believe we will never go back to the same way of working again. What the fut...