A Procurement story: from confrontation to co-operation.

  Procurement has become an increasingly important function in a wide range of industries and business sectors. It is seen as a strategic function, a function that touches and influences all aspects of a business’s operation. Procurement should facilitate, enable and empower but procurement is also often misunderstood and can lead to confrontation. The language … Continue reading A Procurement story: from confrontation to co-operation.

The big ‘Oh’. How to manage your mid-life opportunity.

30. 40. 50 or even 60. Birthdays with a zero in them seem to mark a watershed in our lives. A day can pass in the blink of an eye, the years fly by, but the anniversary of another decade of life often makes us sit back and take stock of what we have done … Continue reading The big ‘Oh’. How to manage your mid-life opportunity.

What can a "Modern Family" teach us about negotiation?

A  letter from a woman to her Ex-husband’s new girlfriend was doing the social media rounds recently, I’ve copied it below and then will talk about what this can teach us about negotiation:   You must be cringing as you read this. You must be thinking I’m going to school you on how to treat … Continue reading What can a "Modern Family" teach us about negotiation?

When should you take charge of your own personal development?

At the beginning of our lives, the responsibility for our development belongs with other people. Our parents and our family decide what we should learn and how we should learn it. Then the Education System joins in and we are led towards knowledge and skills that the wisdom of the time decides that we will … Continue reading When should you take charge of your own personal development?

Have your resolutions bitten the dust yet?

At this time of year it’s almost impossible to get in through the door of a Gym for the number of sweating, Lycra clad bodies within. Leave it until March though and there is no waiting to use the equipment, no difficulty in finding a locker for your your things and no one else there.  … Continue reading Have your resolutions bitten the dust yet?

A New Partnership with Positive Purchasing

We’re really pleased to announce our new partnership with Positive Purchasing. We are now their NLP delivery partners and will be delivering advanced, NLP based Procurement courses with them. Positive Purchasing is a specialist training and consultancy business focused on transforming procurement capability worldwide. They help organisations realise dramatic results through the development of people … Continue reading A New Partnership with Positive Purchasing

Be Careful What You wish For. . .

Be Careful what you Wish for – The Class of 53 story: The story, as told by lots of consultants and coaches (and it appears in a huge number of books) , goes like this: In 1953, researchers surveyed Yale’s graduating seniors to determine how many of them had specific, written goals for their future. … Continue reading Be Careful What You wish For. . .

"If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It"

I watched  a Horizon programme on self monitoring recently and it reminded me of something I say on most courses I run, “if you aren’t aware of it – you can’t influence it”, or “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” If you don’t know a customer has a problem, you can’t put … Continue reading "If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It"

How Can Shreddies Help Me Manage Change?

  If your brain was a computer, metaprogrammes would be the software running on the computer. Just as a computer has to take in and analyse huge amounts of data to produce something we can make sense of, our brains have to do the same.  Without the software, a computer would be unable to do … Continue reading How Can Shreddies Help Me Manage Change?

How To Change Your life

By Martin Crump. Martin is a Director and co-founder of Evolution.  He is a certified NLP Master Trainer with a wealth of experience of working with organisations of all sizes and types across the UK.     How many of us have wanted to change our life, or some aspects of it?  Often this comes … Continue reading How To Change Your life