Category: Continuous Improvement
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Are you giving your team Quality Feedback?
Ricky shares his five top tips for giving purposeful feedback: Feedback: Five Top Tips for Purposeful Feedback Feedback is one of the most critical tools and skills of any manager’s skillset. In this video, Ricky explores five top tips for managers and leaders and includes a personal example. What do you think? Related Content Do…
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Why is reflection important in the workplace?
There are moments, often, when we hit milestones that symbolise the end of something (like the end of a year), that we stop and take a moment to look back. This moments are opportunities to reflect, to learn and to prepare to start again. Yet, in work, these moments are missed as we jump from…
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Six Reasons Why You Keep Failing
Six reasons why you keep failing and why you’re not achieving your goals, and the good news is you can overcome everyone! Have you ever set a goal and then found yourself asking, “Why didn’t I achieve it?” We’ve all been there. Dive into this video where I unpack six CRUCIAL reasons most people don’t…
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How can I improve my self-esteem?
When asked, ‘what gets in your way?’, most of us have the same answer. Me! However hard we try, we cannot get out of our own way. We spend our life erecting barriers for us to them climb over, acting like a critic and sometimes even being a bully to ourselves. This is the first…
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How do you switch off autopilot?
We spend most of the time with our brains on ‘autopilot’. We are thinking at a subconscious level, causing us to act without being truly aware of what we are doing. This handy little trick helps us get through the day, making the most of the energy available and freeing up our conscious mind to…
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Why is reflection so important for embedding learning?
Every time we learn something new we have to connect that to our world, to understand how that new piece of information or skill will work for us. Knowing is not enough, we have to integrate the new into our existing understanding of the world. That takes reflection. In this podcast, Ricky and Rob explore…
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Is coaching all that?
Before we can answer whether coaching is limited in this way, what might be helpful is to define what coaching is – what is the definition by which I challenge the assertion! Coaching draws its roots from sports. It is typically a one-to-one relationship between a coach (the person ‘helping’) and a coachee (the person being helped). When you look at sports, the problem is that this…
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Showcasing WWYD at the Festival of Work
We are looking forward to attending the Festival of Work, a fantastic new event run by the CIPD, and showcasing our game-based learning resource What Would You Do? (WWYD). Running in London on June 12 and 13, the Festival of Work combines the CIPD’s Learning and Development and HR Software and Recruitment shows, with an…
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Social learning and the 70:20:10 model
Social learning is about the way we learn, while the 70:20:10 model concerns where we get our learning from. Both are linked and relevant, we think, to the work that we do at Thinking Focus, so we thought we’d take a closer look at them. The social learning theory first formulated by Albert Bandura in…
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Cognitive disfluency: What does it mean for your organisation?
In our work helping business teams to become more engaged and active with learning, time and again the concept of cognitive disfluency comes up. The idea that we process information differently depending on how much effort it requires is a fascinating one, so we thought we’d take a look at it in more depth here. What…