I am aware of many lessons and skills I have learned in life and their value to me. Certain of these include the ability to swim, ride a bicycle and prepare food.  I can't imagine life without these skills and now that I have them, I would never want to go back to a...

Whenever we complete a programme, we always ask the participants for their feedback.  One aspect of this feedback process asks participants for referrals to people the participants know that, in their opinion, will also benefit from similar training. ...

Ripple's five points to become successful. The Ripple Effect team members have been observing the distinct patterns of success and similarly the common patterns of failure for 20 years now.  One behavioural pattern business leaders seem to favour is the desire to...

Training has a bad reputation. This reputation has allowed business leaders to think, when needing to cut costs, that spending on training is a good place to start.  I think that training has been dealt a low blow and a convenient one for business leaders to deal...

When we behave mindlessly we cease to be aware of the “why?” behind our business.  We simply sleep, eat, work, own a pet, meet, marry and even train just because it's what we do. When we forget to consider the “why?”  it all becomes a little shallow, lame, mundane,...

The day we were weaned off mother's milk signified a completed step in our development.  Reaching school-going age another, commencing our working lives another and realizing the need to become influential, no matter our role in the organisation, another....

We have explored Situational Leadership, the need for all the known leadership styles to be in your leadership style repertoire, and the need to add a new leadership style to the traditional list of styles.  Energising Leadership. In our experience effective...

We promote the value of adopting Situational Leadership as the preferred approach to leadership.  With differences in people, skills levels, circumstances and degrees of risk, comes a need for specific and relevant leadership style to achieve the best possible...

Have you analysed your year-to-date recruitment costs yet? How much has recruitment cost your organisation, did you lose any good people and are the new recruits fully up to speed yet? The last three months in a year aren’t any more important than the nine that...