By Liz Kentish. There are many challenges when it comes to climbing the career ladder. On your quest for recognition and respect, you’re bound to encounter the occasional fire-breathing dragon. It doesn’t matter who you are, there will always be that one individual, armed with a dismissive glance or a…
By Liz Kentish. Sometimes you learn something without realising that there is something to be learned. This something had to be pointed out to me even as it was happening. Before I tell you what it is, I must explain that I have been accused or commended (depending on whichever…
By Kentish and Co associate, Tom Robinson. I’ve been exploring the role of cognitive dissonance at work. Started by Leon Festinger’s work, it flies in the face of the widely held belief that people are ‘true’ to their beliefs… Cognitive dissonance theory states that people strive for internal consistence and…
Public speaking is something a lot of us dread – it doesn’t matter how successful you are or how good you are at your job, the thought of standing up in front of a room full of people and delivering a speech can be daunting. Liz Kentish, Managing Director of…
Liz and Tom opened the BIFM WIFM conference on the 10th January with a talk on cognitive dissonance, and got everyone fired up and ready for a great day.
I kind of remember always wanting to learn how to build a dry-stone wall, but perhaps I made up that memory? It may have been a more recent urge, but nevertheless I found myself, last June, on the outskirts of Sheffield. There were four of us and the farmer, truth…
Dave Kentish’s response to the question below originally appeared in FMJ In today’s transient society fewer employees are staying with their employers for long periods of time. Do you think it is important to encourage long service? What are the advantages to long-service versus encouraging a healthy turnover of staff?…
Spend time rewiring your brain, and finding the right collaborators, and you could reap the benefits in 2017, says Liz Kentish There are many challenges when it comes to climbing the career ladder. On your quest for recognition and respect, you’re bound to encounter the occasional fire-breathing dragon. It doesn’t…
By Liz Kentish. Earlier this month I had an interesting meeting which gave my conscious mind a reality check and my comfort zone a massive shove, I call it the ‘Alice effect’. Let me ask you the same question that I had to ask myself during this meeting, ‘Do you…
This week, when Theresa May was seen being awkwardly excluded from salutations at the EU summit, many felt her pain. A video has emerged in which the Prime Minister appears to be being ignored by other attendees. It was tweeted by journalists covering Thursday morning’s event in Brussels and shows Mrs May fidgeting, while…
