by Hannah Nightingale | Apr 1, 2022 | Better Meetings, Tips & Tricks
After many years of advising our clients in the running of their operations, we took the plunge (I maintain I was pushed) last year and took on a country pub of our own. We are proud to say that the Ostrich in Castle Acre is now just about, almost, nearly finished and...
by Hannah Nightingale | Sep 21, 2021 | Better Meetings, Managing, Tips & Tricks
The inside of our new pub has been open for a week and with the whirlwind that comes with any opening abating slightly, it is now time to come back to one of my favourite topics, that of checklists. We have a relatively green team and a checklist is one of the most...
by Hannah Nightingale | Aug 9, 2021 | Better Meetings, Managing, Tips & Tricks
About 4 years ago, I was told to get out of my own way. Which was polite speak for “you are crap at running your company, get someone in who loves doing that sort of thing because you are ruining your life and any future prospects your company might have”. ...
by Hannah Nightingale | Jul 12, 2021 | Better Meetings, Tips & Tricks
I nearly dropped my digital scales this morning, I was juggling them with a bag of flour and in my head, my father’s voice was chiding me to “USE TWO HANDS!”. I then gave myself a good chide as that is the piece of advice I hand out most often to...
by Hannah Nightingale | Jun 7, 2021 | Better Meetings, Managing, Tips & Tricks
It was a challenging week of challenging conversations for me. It prompted me to revisit a list I wrote while watching the TED talk given by Celeste Headlee, she posits that we have lost the balance between listening and talking and it certainly helped me today...
by ruckusweb | Apr 10, 2020 | Better Meetings
Most of us have been involved in an online meeting and they can tend toward the unremarkable end of the (not usually remarkable) meeting scale. The upheaval we are all going through at the moment means we need to up our online meeting game, the trouble is, there are...
