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Briefings Archive 2009

2009

Season's Greetings from the idenk team
We have really enjoyed 2009 and hope you have too (and see below for more on preparing for 2010).

We have just re-launched the idenk website.
Do take a look and let us have your feedback.We hope you’ll find lots of useful things there, including articles, business briefings, resources and online assessments.We have also started sharing our ideas in short form more regularly through the idenk blog. You can receive this by clicking on this link. If you register, you will get 5-6 short observations or thoughts (each is about 100-200 words) every two weeks.

Fit for purpose?
Why do business people do so little training? I don’t mean training to get fit physically but to help get better at the sort of work we do? Some people may go on the occasional course, others will do a few development days here and there. But many of us will go through an entire year without doing any formal training at all. It’s the same in both the commercial and public sectors.
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Asking the right questions
“How am I to get in?” asked Alice again, in a louder tone. “Are you to get in at all?” said the Footman, “That’s the first question, you know.”
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Getting better all the time?
Meeting for coffee with one of our clients last week, she talked me through how a sharp drop in sales as a result of the downturn had meant they had had to make cost cuts. That's not an unfamiliar story at the moment.
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Get things in perspective — take the long view
We’ve been delighted with the feedback on our last couple of briefings with their focus on hope, happiness and the front foot organization. The encouragement to be positive has resonated strongly with a lot of people for whom the news seems bleak.
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''H' is for Happiness'
Whilst we often help clients examine what is holding their organisations or intentions back, helping them then to acquire the habits necessary for a breakthrough on a particular problem or question, what really excites those we work with most is a focus on potential!
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New Year 2009
One of us received this picture on a Christmas card about ten years ago. Do you have a favourite image from a seasonal card you got this year? Have you something to share — maybe graphic that made you laugh, think, cry, cringe...
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