Realising Your Year Ahead 15 January, 2016 You may have received some tips about New Year’s resolutions in your early January mailbox from somewhere or other. Often our good intentions fade through the month. Here are a few tips from us to help you stay engaged: Better to think of (and feel) New Year’s resolve than resolution. Resolve is an on-going state […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
Exploring Gratitude 30 November, 2015 To live with a sense of gratefulness is a way to a healthier and more fulfilled life. Wisdom traditions, positive psychology and neuroscience all point us in this direction . Some of the identified benefits include a stronger immune system and lower blood pressure, higher levels of positive emotions, more joy, optimism, and happiness, acting […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
Too Small for You? 10 September, 2015 For a good numbers of years now, we have been working with the well known poet and presenter David Whyte. David speaks to the human condition; to the core challenges individuals and organisations face today. With a unique and compelling blend of poetry, humour and insight, his talks traverse boundaries, making him a sought after […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
In Defence of Accreditation 3 August, 2015 In the last few years I have been through five accreditation processes. None them were my kind of fun. So what could have possibly possessed me? You see, I am not exactly a fan of spending hours trawling through past diaries and files, assembling evidence that I am who I say I am, and I […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
How do they get it so wrong? 7 June, 2015 Great customer service is easy. So how do so many businesses get customer service to be so bad? Don’t get me wrong, I know we all have off days. When a waitress looks like she has been slapped with a wet fish, I will usually go out of my way to help her change her […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
Your parents are to blame for everything 28 May, 2015 Allegedly Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits said – “give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” Certainly neuro-scientific evidence, as well my own experience, demonstrates that a lot of beliefs (both enabling and limiting) are laid down in early childhood. As children we interpret the world literally […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
Culture is set from the top 20 April, 2015 Fashionable as it still seems to be, to talk about ‘bottom up’ change, culture is never changed that way. The behaviours of the top team (what they say and even more importantly what they do) always dictate what ‘goes’ in organisational life. Two universal quantifiers (never and always) in as many sentences. Now, I don’t […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
We are used to speaking in metaphors 9 March, 2015 We are used to speaking in metaphors, all of us, and here at Beyond we run whole events that are based on the metaphoric – “Lessons for Leadership from Horse Whispering” and “Firewalking”. So imagine how I felt when I found myself on a “pruning course”. Yes, I do mean something involving autumnal plants and […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
Welcome 8 February, 2015 Welcome to our blog. We are looking forward to sharing ideas and ponderings with you to inspire, challenge and sometimes amuse. There are many factors involved in Going Beyond – to stepping outside of the normal, as an individual, team, organisation or society. We have been working at this frontier for more than 25 years […] Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
