Power of apprenticeships

Toni Addinall is a highly experienced management and leadership facilitator, who has developed and delivered leadership programmes from supervisor to executive level. Here she explains a little more about her role with OTD Quality Apprenticeships and why coaching is key to producing capable leaders … At what point in a professional sports person’s career would …

Supporting our communities

It was over a year ago when we decided to have a strategic community plan. We had always been good at donating, fundraising and volunteering however these gestures of kindness on our part were very sporadic.

Resilience: the programme that lives up to its billing

In the last 12 months, we have delivered 192 sessions on Resilience and Deliberate Resilience. In that time, we’ve equipped nearly 2,000 people with skills for maintaining an optimistic and healthy perspective through unfeasibly difficult times. If ever there was a programme that lives up to its billing, it’s Resilience. Carefully crafted and refined over …

Give luck a chance

Daphna Avital is on a mission: to help you attract luck Daphna Avital The OTD business coach has developed an exciting new workshop – attracting luck – which might just change your fortune. We asked Daphna to tell us a little more about it… I recently had the opportunity to deliver a lecture about luck; …

An evening with Kay Cooke

Since lockdown began last year, Chris Cummins has been running a monthly evening NLP practice group. The sessions have often included world class guest speakers such as Dr Richard Bandler (co-creator of NLP), John LaValle (President of the Society of NLP) and many other trainers and master trainers. Last month Chris hosted Kay Cooke, author …

National Selfie Day

As vaccinations take place worldwide and we edge towards normality, we’re beginning to make steps back to the workplace from an extended period of isolation. That will not be an easy process for many of us. We will have to face new challenges, adapt to new social situations and perhaps even relearn how to communicate …

Better leaders, better teams

That’s the title of the new book by OTD business coach, Sami Bugay.  Using a holistic and integrative approach, the book provides leaders and team members with solid, applicable theory plus ready-to-use tools, from problem-solving capabilities to increasing efficiency and harmony. Sami says: “Since the day we were born, we’ve each been a part of …

OTD Recommends

The Coaching Habit – Michael Bungay Stanier How emotions are made (the secret life of the brain) – Lisa Feldman Barrett  Behave (The Biology of humans at our best and worst) – Robert Sapolski  “They really are game changers for human thinking and connection”   – Chris Cummins The High Performance Podcast “This is a …

What’s coming up?

Meet Rohan Bent, our first work experience placement. Rohan joined us for a six-week, fully paid placement through one of our four community partners, First Class Foundation.