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Become un-fixed for creativity!

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.

CIPD research suggests ‘David Brent’ may be commoner than you think.

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 11th May 2012

A recent report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development does not make very comfortable reading for those managers who think they are the best thing since sliced bread. Read on to find out what the CIPD discovered and how companies can respond to address the ‘reality gap’...

The power of truly congruent presentations!

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...

RISE to the challenge of whistle-blowing!

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...

Occupied no more – no goals set means no goals reached!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 1st March 2012

I have just been sent a newspaper clipping about the final removal of the Occupy movement protesters from outside St Paul’s Cathedral by someone who read a blog I wrote on the subject last October. He seemed to think that the content of my blog had been prophetic...

Powerful Presenting for Career Success

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...

NLP and State Management in Conflict Resolution

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 27th January 2012

For the last 24 hours or so I have been suffering from a really dreadful bug. Fever, hacking cough – all the usual stuff. As a result my mood has been vile. Let me tell you a little bit about how that relates to a concept from NLP.

Why the England Cricket Team could benefit from a tea-cup!

by Paul Russell 10:30 - 23rd January 2012

Over the last few days I have been watching the Pakistan v England test match in Dubai. England, the current number 1 ranked team in the world, were comprehensively beaten by 10 wickets inside 3 days! Let me give you some insights from the perspective of an experienced sport...

Sleep as a Creativity Skill? Sleep on it.

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...

Sleep – a very productive night-shift!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 5th January 2012

Today I read a post from an intelligent, accomplished and resourceful person lamenting the fact that if she wanted to get another two hours work done a day she would not be able to continue getting out of bed at 7:30am. Let’s set aside the fact that half past...

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