by Damian Hamill
10:52 - 14th May 2012
What can a candle, a box of drawing pins and a box of matches tell us about creativity? This was the question posed and answered by psychologist, Karl Duncker in the 1940s. Before we go further please have a look at the photograph below showing the afore-mentioned three things.
by Damian Hamill
09:16 - 8th May 2012
I have recently worked with a couple of coaching clients who have shared the same presenting issue. The problem in question is presentation anxiety and a common aspect of the underlying structure is that nervousness has to be concealed. I want to talk about this interesting assumption a...
by Damian Hamill
00:00 - 30th April 2012
I recently read an article which reported a call by Professor David Lewis of Middlesex University, one of the UK’s leading employment law experts, for companies to actively reward and protect whistle-blowers within their organisation. Read on to find out how we at Watt Works can contribute to this...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 15th February 2012
Years ago I read a book by one of the major developers of Solution-focused Therapy, Bill O’Hanlon. Bill referred to a fantasy novel, The Wizard of Earthsea, as a wonderful metaphor for personal change, growth, healing and relating to aspects of ourselves. I have recommended the book to...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 9th February 2012
One of the factors that typified the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, was his laid back presentation style. He would stand up in front of the world and introduce a revolutionary product as if he was showing it to a group of intimate friends and associates. Yet there are other...
by Damian Hamill
11:45 - 6th January 2012
Someone is stuck on a problem. They’ve thought about it endlessly to no avail. Someone suggests that they “sleep on it” and, lo-and-behold, the following morning the solution is staring them in the face. We’ve probably all had experiences like this and wondered if the emergence of a...
by Paul Russell
10:30 - 3rd January 2012
I was watching the semi-finals of the Darts PDC World Championships last night and witnessed one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. In this ‘First to 6 Sets is the Winner’ match, James Wade was 5 - 1 up against reigning champion, Adrian Lewis. Lewis was written off...
by Damian Hamill
12:35 - 30th December 2011
So, the New Year is almost upon us and many of you may be thinking of the changes you want to see happen in 2012 and framing those as New Year’s Resolutions. Let me give you a few pointers and I’ll be brief.
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 27th December 2011
Over the Festive Season some of you may have used the services of the personalised greeting card company, Moonpig. Let me do a little bit of name-dropping here and also show you how to extract opportunity from adversity.
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 19th December 2011
“There were lots of invitations; I know you sent me some.
But I’ve been waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.”
These words from Leonard Cohen’s magnificent song, The Miracle, sum up for me one of the most alarming aspects of the personal development movement of the last...