Sir John Betjeman, CBE (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who’s Who as a “poet and hack”. He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. Starting his career as a journalist, he ended it as [...]

Even though we have been coaching whilst walking for many years, the practice seems to now be catching on.  This is an interesting Havard Business Review about just that! At SladenWoods we’ve found that getting out and about allows clarity of thought, helps get things in perspective and generates motivation and new ideas. Pictured is [...]

Quiet Leadership by David Rock About the book If people are being paid to think, Rock writes, “isn’t it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?” Supported by the latest ground-breaking research, ‘Quiet Leadership’ provides, for the first time, a brain-based approach that will help [...]

As SladenWoods continues to build its business capabilities we were delighted to invite to Sladen Lodge four exceptional individuals. Each of them have achieved outstanding sporting success and are now delivering speeches to corporate audiences around the UK. From left to right Chris Cook (Swimming), Tim Prendergrast (Athletics), Richard Colley (Director of SladenWoods), Craig Heap [...]

In one of our previous blog posts we announced that Marc had successfully written a book Beyond the Call: Why Some of Your Team Go the Extra Mile and Others Don’t Show, and reported that the book is due out in December. We are now pleased to give you a sneak preview of the cover [...]

We are delighted to announce we have acquired a new client, Asquith Nurseries, the largest private nursery company providing leading pre-school nursery care and development. Operating on a national basis with over 80 nurseries, Asquith has over 3,500 children in their care. Initially we have helped in the design and running of their manager and [...]

We’re currently delivering the 2nd module of the Remploy Call to Action Programme and it’s going really well. The focus of the whole programme is developing the skills, attitude and behaviours of consulting, coaching and business partnering. With this in mind we have challenged the teams with working with a community partner to deliver some [...]

All employers and managers want to get the best performance and effort out of their employees in order to retain and service their customers and clients in the best way – otherwise known as discretionary effort. But is it actually possible to identify what makes people do their very best for an organisation? Discretionary effort [...]

We managed to catch up with Marc Woods in between his busy commentating schedule for the BBC at the Paralympic Games, to find out what it was like flying through the Olympic Stadium in front of a peak television audience of 11.2 million. So tell us about your involvement in the Paralympic Opening Ceremony This [...]

At SladenWoods we’re really proud of Marc’s involvement with the London 2012 Games. He has been an ambassador of the event and a member of the British Paralympic Advisory Panel, had a Javelin train named after him and is scheduled to commentate for the BBC during the Paralympic Games.     Launched just as the [...]