By Wendy King What a great time I had showing Liz Kentish around my favourite parts of Sydney at the weekend – footsore but content. I got to be a tourist in my own country and see it anew through another’s eyes. This got me thinking about how we experience…
First of all, thank you to one of our lovely clients in Australia for challenging me to write a blog about #Kentishontour, based around songs. As my world time clock is a bit out of synch right now, I’m burning the Midnight Oil, so here goes… Most of 2014 has…
Much has been talked recently regarding agile and remote working, using technology which allows you to be anywhere and still be able to communicate with your colleagues to get the job done, it’s wonderful, except when it isn’t! Remember that old excuse about why you have not done something because…
Since I arrived in Sydney there have been people camped outside the Apple store. So, today that means they’ve been there for 12 days. Crazy or simply determined? The first two guys in the queue are working for a company who are going to give away the phones in some…
The team I’m working with here in Sydney have, as one of their strategy specific behaviours, the art of giving and receiving feedback. So I’ve been receiving plenty this week! One of the things I have discovered about myself, from the point of view of my delegates, is that they…
We had an interesting conversation in our leadership journey today about personal strengths and weaknesses, which ended up with somebody quoting Delia (for apparently it was she who made the comment about pastry). Instead of trying to ‘fix’ the things we can’t do, why not focus on what we can…
How different would your life be if you discovered ‘the happiness advantage’? Well, my delegates found that out for themselves today when, as part of their leadership journey, we watched this: I did wonder if the whole idea of ‘gratitude’ and ‘positivity’ might be a step too far for the…
Ah, yes, jet lag. Hands up if you’ve ever experienced it? So, what to do when 14 people are expecting a highly energised facilitator to run a full day of leadership activities, models and feedback. When they don’t know each other and are looking to you to make them feel…
In the early hours of Saturday morning I arrived in very rainy Sydney, but my luggage obviously loves Dubai so much that it decided to stay behind. It’s that moment of dread when you hear your name called out, but I did have a smug smile as I remembered to…
As Kentish and Co has grown, so has our client base, and over the next ten weeks Liz and David Kentish will be on a mini world tour, taking in Australia, India, Turkey, Dubai, Spain, Scotland and France. In amongst the work there will also be time for some R&R,…
