The headline this week that 70,000 children in the UK would wake up on Christmas day homeless made me stop in my tracks and listen. The headline was Shelter drawing attention to the fact that to be homeless you don't have to be sat in a shop doorway, you could be out of sight in a B&B, Refuge or Shelter - temporary accommodation - and these figures are on the up in a scary way.
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November 13, 2011 in Change Management, Communication, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change
When was the last time someone asked you or even considered “what it was like to be you?” It takes courage and sensing the opportunity to change: starting with the simple premise just one person deciding to understand what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes.
Last week, a group of six volunteers emerged from a capsule after undertaking a simulated, 520 day, “Mission to Mars.
While the experiment could not replicate all of the conditions, such as weightlessness or the effects of radiation; it did give the participants in insight into some of the mental effects that they would be likely to encounter.
I was excited to listen to Pete Townsend, giving the first John Peel Lecture as part of the Radio Festival in Salford. The topic for his talk was ‘Can John Peelism survive the Internet?' and he made some inspiring comments about creativity and his inner artist:
