CorporateCoach

“Come Up With Great Ideas Without Cracking Your Head�
Brefi Group Associate and founder of Clever Fox Kathleen Alexander is running a workshop that will put ideas into your head about how YOU can generate grand ideas, wicked ideas, cool ideas and even bright ideas.
Someone had the big idea of running it for free, so she [...]

I’m back. A wonderful week of rest and relaxation followed by a night flight with only a couple of hours’ sleep and return to 3,000 emails! Not only that, but Outlook could not cope [...]

The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive

If anything can go wrong. Fix it! (To hell with Murphy!)
When given a choice – take both!
Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.
Start at the top then work your way up.
Do it by the book…but be the author!
When forced to compromise, ask for more.
If you can’t beat them, join them, [...]

I thought you would be interested in some of the developments at Brefi Group so I am making a change to the editorial style this week to report [...]

There are a couple of questions that have been puzzling me since I first got involved with coaching some three years ago. First, “What drives [...]

I have heard of this book, published in 2000, but not come across it before. It has been a fascinating read.
It analyses the tipping point, that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviours [...]

Wherever we go we are surrounded by situations and environments that are potentially dangerous. I am currently working in a very large heavy engineering plant. Forklift trucks drive around, cranes move heavy objects, there is machinery and dangerous materials. Safety is the top priority here.
But how do you measure it? I don’t [...]

Dear Editor
I would like to comment on the difference between the power of caring and the negative burden of worry. Fundamentally you can care about the things you cannot change and make a huge impact
This is to do with the way we use language and belief. If, for example, you try and tell somebody [...]

Dear Editor
I belong to one of several refugee families in India. We were displaced during partition in the year 1947. The word Refugee is assigned to all displaced families.
Right from childhood, this one word has etched deeply in my mind.
I like to share this small experience with readers of this newsletter, in case [...]

I have been much struck by this week’s Letter to the Editor from Rob Smith. I remember a personal development tape that took the same theme. If [...]

The best piece of advice I have ever received is “Do not worry about things you cannot change”.
I have always wondered where my father got his laid back view on life from, nothing panics him and he just deals with ‘problems’ or difficult situations as they occur rather than worrying about future events that [...]

Written by Joseph OConnor and his partner Andrea Lages, the founders of Lambent do Brasil, Coaching With NLP is a great book that I would thoroughly recommend for anyone who is involved in coaching – whether they are a coaching professional, a recipient of coaching or would like to do some self coaching.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) [...]