Against all advice, I’m going to cram my first paragraph with lots of overused phrases from 2020; from virtual events to ‘this year has been unprecedented, a roller coaster, a huge learning curve, life changing’ and now we’ve settled on the new normal! Not to mention ‘YOU’RE ON MUTE!’ In the p...
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Hands up who’s heard the saying; “when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me both”. My first memory of hearing it was from the mouth of Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs. I’ve therefore always thought of making assumptions having a negative connotation (and of course in the cas...
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘team building’, and to some employees (and managers!) the words fill them with dread. These activities have become synonymous with raft building, spaghetti tower construction and generally going on a bit of a ‘jolly’. Also, feeling slightly uncomfortable with each other while you...
We’ve all experienced that inward groan when we have to participate in something we really don’t feel comfortable doing. We can all agree that a common cause is hearing the dreaded words ‘and now we’re going to practice that through a spot of role play’. It seems that most people hate (or more likely, fear)...
It seems that my close friends and family really do know me well when it comes to buying gifts. I wrote last year about my amazing experience with ‘A Murder to Die For’, and this year my friends came up trumps with a surprise visit to Sherlock, the Game is Now. You may or may not know that I’ve recently develop...
Perhaps you’re working with an ineffective team, morale is low, but you can’t quite pinpoint where the tensions lay and are therefore powerless to improve them. You might be aware of the issues within your team, and want to observe them remotely to assess the impact they are having on your business and come up with...
Murder Mystery? Understandably, most people I meet have only ever encountered the world of murder mystery in a party environment, sitting round a dinner table trying to fathom the complicated instructions from a box set through a haze of wine. Therefore, it can be difficult to imagine how on earth the format can, for...
Blue Monday? Whether or not you believe in the formula behind the phenomenon of Blue Monday (a term apparently devised by a Dr Cliff Arnall, describing the most miserable day of the year), it’s clear to everyone that January is a bit of a depressing month, not least when we return to work after a potentially long bre...
Graduate Recruitment It’s that time of the year where many large businesses are in the process of searching for the cream of the graduate crop to join their team, with typical graduate schemes looking to run assessment days around March and April, following the rounds of initial applications post-summer results day. ...
