News from Penny Tunnell, Business Consultanty

I NEED TO HAVE A DIFFICULT CONVERSATION!

I am reminded by these 11th hour political negotiations of how often we delay really important conversations. We must be prepared to make the first move....

TRANSFORMATIONAL TRUST

Mutual trust is the bedrock of successful team performance and leadership, and without it all is shifting sand. Read our new article on ‘trust in leadership’....

I’m HOLDING on to my 5 WHISKS

I have been struck by how much I hold on to stuff; stuff I don't need, don't use and don't like and actually don't even want in my life. Why do I have a utensil drawer like this one? ...

WISDOM & MASTERY; WHAT ARE THEY AND CAN THEY BE TAUGHT?

Wisdom and Mastery is the simple and compelling aim of a year-long programme I’ve just started for professional coaches....

DELIGHTED TO TEACH AND LEARN!

When I started out in life, teaching was pretty much the expected career path for a woman interested in words and ideas. ...

CREATE THE BEST YEAR EVER WORKSHOP

I am running this workshop in Oxford on April 18th, as many businesses head into the start of their new financial year. Created for SMEs and now in its third season the focus is setting meaningful goals which underpin and deliver the company...

DO I REALLY NEED TO BE A BRAND?

This was the somewhat amusing question I was asked recently by an £8m turnover, 70 employee business. Well, amusing to me, because the answer seemed so obviously YOU ARE ALREADY ONE, WETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, but it wasn't amusing to the owner of...

WHY ISN’T YOUR BUSINESS MORE PROFITABLE WHEN YOU WORK THIS HARD?

It sounds like a rhetorical question or even a challenge, but it is the question I am asked most often by SME owners about their own businesses, so I can't apologise for the directness of the title....

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