I have just had a two day course called Step Forward, the course was designed to focus on your strenghts, and engagement with your staff, Mark Robb from Positive Reframe did a fantastic job, i was probably one of the most receptive characters on the course because of my interest in personal development, i look forward to using some new ideas, he was using a lot of the ideas that Marcus promotes, i will keep you posted, if anybody has done anything similar please share your ideas.

If your Thanksgiving family get together isn’t entertaining enough already, here are a few fun ideas to have some fun and get the conversation going – or quite possibly – stopped.

Thanksgiving conversation Stoppers

Why start with the kids, well thats where it all starts, by that i mean other people telling you what you can and cant do, the trouble is most of us grow up beleiving its true, and the sad thing is that the people close to us are the ones saying you cant do that , well as somebody once famously said that the man that thinks he can and the man that thinks he cant are both usually right, some of you will have heard of the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver going into schools in the Uk and then in the…

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New blog post on creating a positive work culture: How to create a good communication culture at work.