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Myers Briggs Thinking & Feeling, Judging & Perceiving

2010-03-05T02:21:00.000-08:00

This podcast is the last in a series of 3 which explore the personality type theory of Myers Briggs.

This one looks at:

How people prefer to make decisions –Logic and objectivity or values and relationships?

How people live their lives – Planned and organised or spontaneous and adaptable?

It will give you some clues as to:

Why some people want to be recognised for their achievements while others need to be appreciated for their efforts.

Why some people love to start things off…while others love to finish them!

If you’d like to know more about your personality type or those of your team members, check out our Myers Briggs courses, run by qualified Myers Briggs practitioners. Special Offers apply.

Thinking & Feeling, Judging & Perceiving

Myers Briggs – Thinking & Feeling, Judging & Perceiving from Think Training on Vimeo.

Myers Briggs - Sensing & Intuition

2010-02-26T02:41:00.000-08:00

Myers Briggs - Sensing & Intuition from Think Training on Vimeo.

Ever wondered why some people are so obsessed with detail and some people seem to have their head in the clouds.... some clues lie here

Myers Briggs - Communication Exercise, Great Icebreaker

2010-02-17T09:35:00.000-08:00

Extract from a conference speech in which Gavin from think training demonstrates how tricky communication is using the worlds most common word... sex!!

Apparently as a human being you can take in two million bits of information per second. it seems the majority of this information is dealt with by our sub conscious.

Consciously we can deal with about 7 chunks of information when you give out your phone number you usually break it down into two or three segments. why because we cant cope with things above 7.

So your sub conscious has great control on how you act, communicate, think. live your lives think about it you dont notice the fact you are breathing you do this unconsciously you would want to breathe consciously you would be knackered!

Have you ever driven somewhere and wondered how you got there. scary is it perhaps its not a bad thing that your sub conscious is taking you to your destination (it can deal with 2 million bits of info per second). Remember when you learnt how to drive you drive very consciously its difficult.

All of this makes communication very difficult because we delete, distort, see what we believe etc etc

For instructions on how to carry out the exercise follow this link: Communication exercise - great icebreaker

Or you can view more videos from Gavin on the Think Training Myers Briggs YouTube channel

Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham speaking at Impact Executives Leadership event

2010-02-16T07:56:00.000-08:00

Lord Digby Jones shares his thoughts on the economy, interim management, and what attracted him to become a senior advisor to Impact Executives parent company Harvey Nash Group.

Google US Domination!

2009-12-15T06:27:00.000-08:00

In the four weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009 Google has managed to get over 71% of all searches made in the US. This a huge piece of the market for one company to have which is scary but you can see why. Bing hasn't brought anything new to the search engine world and to be honest I would prefer Google to be in charge than Microsoft.

Google has recently brought out real time search in the US and the UK to battle the new search engine Bing. I think Google has won for now. They have also rolled out the personalised search so you no longer have to be logged in. I am sure Microsoft will be thinking of new ideas for Bing to contend with Google but I think they are a long way off.

Here is the Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine provider taken from Hitwise.com


Domain	August 2009	September 2009	Month-over-month percent change
www.google.com	70.24%	71.08%	1%
search.yahoo.com	16.96%	16.38%	-3%
www.bing.com*	9.48%	8.96%	-5%
www.ask.com	2.37%	2.56%	8%
Note: Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Oct. 3, 2009, and Aug. 29, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users.
*This includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.
Source: Experian Hitwise Source: Google US Domination

Flagging sales in Organic produce - What needs to be done?

2009-09-22T01:21:00.000-07:00

Supermarkets, producers and farmers claim that organic sales are down and that the recession is to blame. The ‘Organic Trade Board’ is going to meet to discuss how they will revive the organic market. They are aiming to increase sales by 50% by engaging with retailers and customers to promote the benefit of organic.

Statistics show that before the economy crash organic produce was doing well with high sales and a booming market. Ever since the crash it has got worse and worse as customers go with the cheaper options. I think there is more to it than just the economy because of the recent claims about the nutritional value of organic. It has the benefit of no pesticides and it also is very good for the environment because of the more natural growing methods which can work with nature. This is what I imagine they will be trying to promote.

Sales of organic vegetables are down 19% while demand for organic wine and bread sales have fallen to just half what it was a year ago.

However some organic products - such as milk and peanut butter - are still getting more popular.

The meeting will include representatives from Tesco, organic milk co-operative OMSCO, chocolate maker Green & Blacks, and yogurt firm Yeo Valley.

It will be interesting to see what adverts and campaigns the organic producers and retailers will come up with to try and get people buying organic. Would you buy organic?

Mini will create a 1,000 jobs in Oxfordshire two help produce two new models

2009-09-03T01:12:00.000-07:00

“Two new models of the Mini are to be built at BMW's plant in Oxfordshire creating up to 1,000 jobs, sources suggest.”

Mini will be revelling two concept cars on the 15th of September which will be produced in Cowley near Oxford. Last February Mini cut 850 jobs from the same site but they will be rehiring most of the workers because of recent rises in sales. Some suggest that the recent surge in global demand for smaller cars is the main cause in increased sales.

Frankfurt Motor Show, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said: "The production of two new Minis is very good news for Oxford, and for the UK car industry.

"It is a demonstration of BMW's long-term commitment to the UK.
"British drivers have had a long love affair with the Mini and I'm sure that this will continue for many years to come."

BMW has not said an exact figure on how many jobs will be created, but sources close to the company told the BBC at least 1,000 new positions would be needed. This is very good for Oxfordshire and the UK as it shows that the economy is on an upturn.

Do politicians and bureaucrats even know the world is changing?

2009-08-20T04:42:00.000-07:00

Recently I saw some 50 or 60 new Yellow Pages directories piled up in the reception area of a smart popular business centre. It would have made a great photo opportunity but before I could organise a camera they had been collected by the recycling truck. The moral of the story obviously, who needs a great big cumbersome book when you can go online and find what and who you want so easily?

Groceries? Who needs that Saturday morning hassle when you can answer the door to the delivery man, fill up the fridge and the larder and then do something really interesting for the day instead?

The UK government is obsessed with data based on legacy thinking, particularly consumer spending on the high street. When do they include commercial data from the internet as standard in the general economic reporting? Government agencies such as the DTI can’t even get their heads around the fact that so many companies they categorise as service providers are to a large extent actually manufacturers. Albeit manufacturers of virtual products but none the less they are still manufacturers.

I refer to web development companies and software manufacturers. In my book a manufacturer creates wealth by converting raw materials into a finished product that has an increased value. Or, they add value through assembly and finishing a product from a range of component parts that may have been provided by an outside supplier. Ring any bells? Blank screen, 8 weeks later a bespoke e-commerce website. I have argued in the past that many so called service providers should be relabeled as manufacturers. Would such a re-positioning of many highly successful companies alter the percentage ratios in the UK business portfolio? You bet it would.

The face of town centres in Britain is being changed by the internet. Shopping malls devastated towns through the 80s and 90s. The internet will start to change town centres in the UK for the better. With new shopping patterns through the ever increasing switch to the internet by consumers and businesses towns are going to change. Yes some shops will close and some retail sectors will have to slim down their High Street operations but there will be an upside.

People will start to move back into town centres to live and bring up their children. Cafes, restaurants and other places of community and social activity will proliferate as people come back into towns to live. The night time urban desert caused by towns being given over entirely to daytime retail can change and that change can be for the good.
How much do Government, Senior Executives and organisations such as the DTI really understand about the dramatic changes taking place in our society? In my view not a great deal. There are amazing opportunities to be seized upon but to realise them we need leaders with insight and imagination as well as a simple understanding of the New Basics.
How many young people buy newspapers? If our so called top people want to re-educate themselves then let them start by talking to sixth formers. If the banks had put school leavers in charge of communication and advertising they might have not just delivered better services and information but also have saved millions that could be handy just now.
Does Google sit at the top tables with the so called Captains of Industry? I hope they do but somehow I doubt it. Britain and the US have some truly fantastic companies who are leading the world in the new sectors. Unfortunately so many highly placed decision makers have their feet firmly planted in the old world thinking in the old ways about yesterdays issues. When will they realise that tomorrow is already here?

Roger Allen
Managing Director
Zeta

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