The Top Tips Blog

As a trainer I drive to plenty of different venues. Most places already provide what I need to deliver but I also carry plenty of kit. Just in case.

In the boot of my car you'll find spare chargers, ...

It’s been a purple patch for gigging this last fortnight.

First Johnny Marr entertained us with a ringside view in Pryzm nightclub in Kingston. We were so close to the stage that I’ve been able to re...

Hello to the new Top Tips subscribers from the recent training I delivered to the AAT North Kent branch. Welcome on board!

We had a fun training session looking at Leadership concepts like clear prio...

A good while ago I wrote a Top Tips about the worst boss I ever had.

In that particular job I wasn’t valued and know I wasn’t seen as being worth much.

It was confusing to me that the skills and att...

A recent Top Tip was about avoiding tautologies. I realised later that most of the email was spent noticing and highlighting them but oddly I didn’t offer any ways to deal with them.

I didn’t mean no...

Recently I touched on the Diderot Effect, a pattern of buying stuff that has a sense of unity or identity. A pattern which basically will cost you an arm and a leg unless you rein it in!

Retailers kn...

I got a pretty severe summer haircut this week. I didn’t realise it was quite so brutal until everyone I met later that day said “Now, that’s a haircut!”

To be fair I did ask for it to be shorter tha...

I'm laid low with Covid right now. It's the first time I've had those two little stripes on the LFT.

"How am I feeling?"

Ropey is how I'd describe my current state but nothing horrendous. Very grate...

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking about how to change your life for the better then you’re not alone. Most people want to improve themselves in some way or another.

Ch Ch Ch Changes

People w...

Happy Friday!

Last weekend, I drove to York and back to visit family. It was a 500-mile round trip that, despite my best intentions, brought out my inner grumbler.

There I was, navigating the M1, mu...

There is a list of ideas compiled from themes I've been asked to write about and on that list is ‘how to complain’.

Well, as it happens, the ideal situation occurred for me to write about that this w...

I’ve mentioned before that I love a good acronym. The best ones are useful, clever, elegant, fun to decode and very often just sound pleasant too. 

SCUBA is a good one. You may already know that it s...