By Peter Johnson, on February 1st, 2012 | Comments are closed 
As the new year pushes forward it is sometimes important to…stop…and remember special moments.
I was speaking with someone recently and this reminded me of such a time that is stored in my memory bank. There are already new year lambs in the fields and not so long ago I was looking at the wonderful sight you see in the picture. The snow falling, sheep seemingly happy as the temperatures were not too low. The sounds muffled by nature and a roaring log fire awaiting within.
A fire which we would eat a hearty lunch in front of, share good conversation and enjoy each other’s company.
Sometimes it is wonderful to drawn on this memory bank
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By Peter Johnson, on January 28th, 2012 | Comments are closed I was on a plane to Eire recently for a 3-day weekend business conference – a time to work on my objective for the year and take some time out to review what I do. It is so easy to be busy with all the things that grabs our attention, that we fail to find the time to review where we have reached and what next steps are needed. Or perhaps wanted.
It was a glorious day to be flying and we took off on time with an expected early ETA – always a delight, as many fellow travellers will know. As someone who used to fly regularly, and often end up with delays and pressurised agendas,
Continue reading Look after yourself……first!
By Peter Johnson, on January 21st, 2012 | Comments are closed I was recently working with some clients, and what a great start to a new year. We were using Insights Discovery to provide some really good and useful development that is brilliant for the individual, the team and the business. These clients are great people, good at what they do and part of a successful business – and they continue to invest in their own development.
This is an interesting ‘take’ on some of the doom and gloom we are continually subjected to from the media and every other naysayer we come into contact with.
Perhaps there is a reason why these people are successful…..could it be to do with the reality that they continue to invest
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By Peter Johnson, on January 1st, 2012 | Comments are closed
I was in Scotland a few days before Christmas and, as you can see, the weather was wonderfully seasonal. This was even more powerful for me as I was being taken to see one of the oldest trees in Britain. It lent a silence to the moment with the snow softly falling so there were no other sounds around – so perfect.
It is amazing to think that this tree has been slowly growing for thousands of years and vastly predates both the church it is next to and the religion that the church was constructed to celebrate.
A special place, and a special tree.
The tree had the profound effect of making me think about
Continue reading A New Year message from the tree of learning….
By Peter Johnson, on December 31st, 2011 | Comments are closed
As we draw to end of another year the newspapers capture some of the memories of the past 12 months. Some make us smile, some make us sad, some may even make us mad.
So I was having a think about some of the things that were important moments or events during my year – and what a great year it has been for all manner of reasons. It also reminded me of a picture I took whilst in London earlier in the year, which, to my suprise, was still the same only a few days ago on my last visit. It is a large bottle, with a ship inside, set on a plinth high in
Continue reading What memories are you going to save?
By Peter Johnson, on December 3rd, 2011 | Comments are closed
The picture shows a sign stating both the distance in miles to different destinations and also the number of ‘locks’ to get there. The locks are an amazing feat of engineering which allows boats to go up or down hill on a water way. The distance and locks shown are 29 miles and 3 locks or 30 miles and 58 locks. Clearly one journey is going to require significantly more stages to get to the destination. Also there is going to be a lot of work and waiting required to navigate the locks.
And one journey is on a river which will be flowing whilst the other is on a canal with still water.
So all
Continue reading Do you read the signposts…..?
By Peter Johnson, on November 30th, 2011 | Comments are closed Sometimes we are confronted with a pile of work that needs our attention. Each part of the pile cries out to be done first and we know that some of the tasks are more interesting than others. Usually we have scooped up an article or two that we want to read that is in the pile too. And just occasionally we have mislaid something that is buried in its depths.
Well today I had amassed such a pile – and at least I knew that nothing was client focussed and delaying their work. I pulled the pile together as I had a wonderful ‘gift of time’, created by a stalled meeting. So rather than wonder what to
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By Peter Johnson, on October 31st, 2011 | Comments are closed I was walking by a river the other day and saw this swan elegantly gliding past. The movement was effortless and it got me thinking about some of the best manager or leader I have known. Perhaps a slightly odd link, but do bear with me and you will see where I am going with this.
Most of the best managers and leaders I have ever worked for have invested a lot of time and money in their own management development and leadership development. And I do distinguish between the two. This personal development has enabled them to ‘go with the flow’ to link back to the swan – or so it seems. What is happening though
Continue reading Do you have swan like elegance?
By Peter Johnson, on October 25th, 2011 | Comments are closed As the summer draws to a close here in Britain we are blessed with some warm days that have a freshness to their start. We are also blessed with some wonderful colours as the leaves, that have provided shade and green over the months, start changing into the autumn hues that herald the start of the next season.
This change orchestrated by nature is a picture always well worth admiring. It also leads the change when the days start to grow ever shorter and the night longer. We start making the adjustments to what we wear, what we eat. The occasional need to have some heat at home, or at work, to take the chill off the
Continue reading What do the seasons challenge you to change?
By Peter Johnson, on October 20th, 2011 | Comments are closed I love Insights Discovery! It is such a brilliant profiling tool to help people make a major step in their own development and enhance the performance of their business too.
I have recently been working with some new clients and it is brilliant to see the way they adopt the insights they gain into the own management development. It helps them create an ‘edge’ in what they do that can help with their competitive advantage.
One of my roles is marking the papers of aspirational licensed practitioners which they must complete, and pass, before they can practice and provide profiles. It is so inspiring marking papers when they have ‘got it’. I can sense the excitement of
Continue reading Insights Discovery can reveal the real you…….
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