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Meeting Success: How can you make every meeting a success? 

  In today’s blog we examine the crucial factors to making your meetings a success. Businesses waste hours on a daily basis when it comes to meetings, follow these simple steps and you will ensure you are maximising productivity in your business.    So what is crucial to ensure your team leaves feeling the meeting was productive and successful?    1. Invite the right …

Wellbeing

It’s time to think about your mental and physical wellbeing

  In a world that often feels non-stop, it’s time to think about your mental and physical wellbeing. How can you possibly be at your best if you don’t take the time to reflect, assess what is working perfectly and what isn’t so? What is feeding your energy and what is draining it?   What FEEDS my energy?   On a …

Following in Paddington’s Footsteps: The Peru Adventures

  24/10/2016 – Edinburgh Airport   Today is the first day of my Peru adventures – eeeeek! I am sitting in Edinburgh Airport with equal measures of nerves and excitement. I am off to do something I have wanted to do for so long, since I was in South America in 2007 in fact, the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu …

What is the Brightside story?

It started when I made the decision to go to University to study History. Why? Two reasons – I loved history and I had an inspiring teacher. I remember someone saying do what you love and it will be the right thing to do. As a cautious, shy lass from Forfar it was bold to move 15 miles to share …

Goals are the key to success!

How powerful are written goals? Published in Press & Journal – Friday 25th March, 2016 This week Karran Bonner examines the power of written goals and how you can create your own goals that will help set you up for success this year and in the future. You can’t achieve a target you haven’t set so today is the day …