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The Language of Business

Three years ago I knew most of the content of the work I now deliver to corporate training clients as stress management, team building and leadership training. What I didn’t …

Training Photos

Sometimes I’m asked what exactly is Embodied Management Training or what we do in our leadership training sessions. I hope these training photos from our last “Riding the Storm – …

Meeting Rules

From Anti Pimp blog who also provides these meeting rules: “If the meeting setter/head dude/head chic/manager has any sort of list of topics or agenda – it must be on …

You’re Responsible for the Recession

I’m responsible for the Recession for the recession and so are you. We screwed things up by living in a dumb-ass unsustainable way and tolerating an economic system that had …

Misogi Training

Misogi is a Japanese word which roughly translates as “purification”. On Sunday my aikido club did aikido misogi to commemorate the memorial of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. Misogi normally involves …

Jonathan Kay Workshop

Colourful, anarchic, creative, scary, genius, nebulous, challenging, enlightened, and bonkers are all words that passed my mind while trying unsuccessfully to figure out Jonathan Kay a “21st century fool” in …

Boredom is Good

Boredom is Good – it lets you know you’ve learnt something and can move on to look at something new.This is wisdom from the Japanese martial arts where endless repetitions …

HRD Exhibition 2009

I spent an enjoyable and full-on day at the London ExCeL this Wednesday for the CIPD 2009 HRD Exhibition and Conference. I was researching others working with stress, team building …

Business Aikido

Aikido has been a major influence on my life and in my business. I worked worldwide for a non profit organisation called Aiki Extensions that uses principles and practices from …