The 25th of February sees the UK’s official Employee Motivation Day, a day created to inspire passion and appreciation. In a work environment where attention is focused on what the customer needs, businesses can often forget about their most valued asset; the people who work for them.

So hot off the back of a lot of press coverage on how UK office workers need to stand up for at least two hours per day for their health and wellbeing, came a load of news about how our children are obese, don’t spend enough time at school doing PE and are too sedentary.

I thought I would finally take the time to review my friend and associate’s book, ‘Courageous conversations’.

What are the best tools to use on team development day? Team development programmes benefit so much from problem-solving challenges and internal training teams get asked to provide these events constantly so this question is asked of me regularly!

One excellent way of better tailoring experiential exercises to the particular context,situation and objectives within which you are working, is to use roles within an experiential exercise. There is something really nice (and memorable!) about the surprise…

When involved in projects or even thinking about your own career in a complex organisation, it is really important to get stakeholders engaged if things are to go well! Involving and engaging stakeholders will improve project quality and help you…

Culturallye is a brilliant game that begins very simply. On each table, the delegates warm up to the game by practising how to play with specifically developed dice and also get to grips with the rules of the game. After…

We’re having our fair share of turbulent times at the moment with Brexit and European partners pulling out of the UK as well as new leaders both elected and unelected at home and abroad. As a result of this, I’m…

M R Dynamics is a UK-based learning and development organisation specialising in team and leadership development, working with a variety of organisations around the world. We formed to help people, teams and organisations to find and adopt the…

Having worked to develop teams for 17 years, I thought I’d share a few key ideas that will help facilitators or managers that need to get a group of people working more cohesively.

We all shy away from difficult feedback, and the longer we do, the more difficult it becomes to give. Nip problems in the bud by getting on with it.