Lee Jackson - Award-Winning Motivational Speaker, Trainer and Presentation Coach
Lee Jackson is an Award-Winning Motivational Speaker, Presentation Expert and Trainer working in organisations businesses and education to help people Get Good® - his style is engaging, authentic and jargon free.
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Generation Y: they don’t live for work … they work to live
Settling down on the shiny black sofa in the front room of their student house in Jesmond, Newcastle, Ailsa McNeil and her flatmates discuss what they would do once they had left university. ‘The idea of moving into the financial world of London and working long hours inside a massive company does not appeal to […]
Barnardo’s poll shows shockingly negative view of children
Many people are at risk of giving up on children altogether, a shocking new poll commissioned by Barnardo’s has found. It shows that nearly half the UK population (49 per cent) agree that children today are beginning to behave like animals. ICM Research reveals that the public holds a negative view of all children, despite […]
Teenage Brains – National Geographic Magazine
Although you know your teenager takes some chances, it can be a shock to hear about them. One fine May morning not long ago my oldest son, 17 at the time, phoned to tell me that he had just spent a couple hours at the state police barracks. Apparently he had been driving “a little […]
Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour? | Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Summary Download as PDF 0.1 MB Background It is well known that children growing up in poorer families emerge from school with substantially lower levels of educational attainment. Such ‘achievement gaps’ are a major contributing factor to patterns of social mobility. The ways that affluence and disadvantage can influence educational attainment are potentially very broad. […]
Tim Dowling: So teachers think TV is bad for children? Computers worry me more via guardian.co.uk
via guardian.co.uk So teachers think TV is bad for children? Computers worry me far more Kids can tune out the television but computers rob their time and hijack their brains There are two different, slightly contradictory stories in the news about kids and television. The first is that having tellies in their bedrooms leaves young […]
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Stop swearing on the platform! by @Jeremy_Nicholas
The ethical issue of swearing on the platform At some point in the last couple of years it has apparently become OK to swear onstage at business events. What the flip is going on? As a professional speaker I’ve spent the last twenty years being given the usual pre-match pep talk by event organisers on […]
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