Chris's L&D Blog

“If you keep making that face, it’ll get stuck that way.” “Don’t sit too close to the television or you’ll fall in.” “Eat your carrots and you’ll always have great eyesight.” Sound familiar? When you were just a kid, you were on the receiving end of plenty of fibs and tall tales just like those. […]

So hopefully many of you are familiar with the concept of Agile, if not it’s just a method of project management, used especially for software development and how our digital product teams currently work. Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Feiler introduces family practices which […]

You are more than you think you are, says former pro wrestler Mike Kinney — you just have to find what makes you unique and use it to your advantage. For years Kinney “turned up” the parts of himself that made him special as he invented and perfected his wrestling persona, Cowboy Gator Magraw. In […]

Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility. A talk to share. What I found most interesting about this […]

So interestingly I only found this the other day but did you know The Academy has a whole online library of downloadable books? You can find the library here but there are some great books for example: Excel 2016 Introduction Excel 2016 Advanced Finding Yourself Personal Confidence & Motivation Dealing with Difficult People – especially helpful if you ever […]

Listing the files in a folder is one of the activities which cannot be achieved using normal Excel formulas. I could tell you to turn to VBA macros or PowerQuery, but then any non-VBA and non-PowerQuery users would close this post instantly. But wait! Back away from the close button, there is another option. For […]

As part of our plan to continue to drive value from our data we’re undertaking a project to migrate from our existing tag management solution “Adobe DTM” to a new solution called Tealium. There are some immediate operational benefits to doing this such as: Increase site performance and speed through better code management (primary benefit). […]

I recently read this article from the Harvard Business Review (shared with me by Miles) and thought it made an interesting point. Charismatic leaders can inspire others to perform better, and it would seem to follow that the more charisma a leader has, the more effective he or she will be. But new research reveals […]

I thought I’d write an article about this as I’ve had a few people asking questions, hopefully some of you have heard of Trello but if now it’s literally a tool to help you organise and work collaboratively. The free version includes nearly everything, the paid part only adds on a few features that aren’t […]