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Press release 18th March 2013

18/03/2013

Press release 18th March 2013 – Contact: Lee Jackson 0113 2170081 email lee (at) leejackson.org: Leeds Vicars son speaks out about his fathers asbestos death. “When I got the invitation from the Alwoodley Allsorts community group” said Lee “I just put it in my diary and forgot about it. But when they told me that it […]

Children and the culture of pornography: ‘Boys will ask you every day until you say yes’ – Telegraph

27/02/2013

via telegraph.co.uk

Chick-lit ‘lowers women’s self-esteem’ – Telegraph

06/02/2013

via telegraph.co.uk

Are ‘cultures of worklessness’ passed down the generations? | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

30/01/2013

via jrf.org.uk Daily Mail and politicians take heed!!

Interesting article from Forbes.com: CEOs Want Faster Training – No Matter The Cost…

16/01/2013

By Brian O’Connell from forbes.com – http://www.forbes.com/sites/bmoharrisbank/2013/01/08/why-ceos-want-faster-tra… A recent study by the New Hampshire-based learning solutions provider Skillsoft and the polling firm Opinion Matters found that 90% of CEOs “will either maintain or increase their training budgets” over the next year. The survey gauged the opinions of CEOs at companies with more than 250 employees in 13 business categories.

Make your speech short… Six-Word Speech Contest results via SpeakerNet News

10/01/2013

SpeakerNet News Six-Word Speech Contest Here are the winners of the SpeakerNet News Six-Word Speech Contest, along with all of the submitted entries. See how the contest was set up and run. Where a number of entries fit into a topic or category, we grouped them together. The final category, “Other,” was for entries that […]

Leeds – Writing Britain. Young people speak out about their city and their dreams.

14/12/2012

Leeds – Writing Britain from LEFT EYE BLIND on Vimeo.

The self-help / positive thinking industry can be misleading and sometimes plain wrong but… gratitude journals shine through…

20/11/2012

How to feel up in a downturn by Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian article is here – guardian.co.uk Extract…”For the past year or so, sporadically, I have kept what the University of California psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls a “gratitude journal”: a notebook in which I list between three and five things for which I am currently thankful. Naturally, […]

PowerPoint: The Extreme Makeover Edition (Before and After Slides) – via Forbes

19/09/2012

Don’t blame PowerPoint for a boring presentation. The problem with today’s typical business presentation is NOT PowerPoint. The storyteller is the problem, the presenter who creates wordy, text-heavy slides and uses dull, convoluted jargon and buzzwords. In a previous column titled, Jeff Bezos and the end of PowerPoint as we know it, I made the […]

It’s Not ‘Rigour’, It’s Politics! – etc: a great blog from my friend @davidpriceobe

18/09/2012

OK, that’s it. Up with it, I will no longer put. For years, I’ve taken part in debates about education and nodded my head in a serious manner whenever someone used the ‘R’ word. I mean, what else can you do? Say ‘No, I don’t approve of rigour’? I’ve increasingly felt, however, that it was […]