How do you tackle the fear of presenting? Here are some techniques to help you stay calm, get your audience hooked and keep in control when delivering a presentation.

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a multi-tasker, I've got news for you. When you multitask, you might think you're doing a lot of work, but you're not doing most (or any) of it well. Why? Because the brain can only concentrate on one task at a time.

For many people, the holiday season is a mental, physical and emotional ordeal, not a time of joy and happiness. So I'd like to share some perspectives to support you to create a nurturing holiday experience resulting in peace in body, mind, and spirit.

More information does not in itself produce new ideas. Neither does more analysis or more logic. That's why there is a real need to develop the skill of creative thinking.

Too many people still confuse strong leadership with good management and vice versa. So I thought I would provide some simple guidelines and examples to differentiate between the two and determine whether an individual is either or both.

We've all know about virtual meetings. So why not take the idea a stage further? Given how tight money is at the moment, what about forgetting a physical office party this year and organizing a virtual get-together, instead?

Fifty years ago, the workplace was full of similar people with similar values and ways of doing things. Not any more. Modern organizations are full of people from different backgrounds with different sets of unwritten rules. And these rules lie at the heart of many workplace conflicts.

The Great Crunch has revealed the limitations of scientific management and the dangers of focussing too much on abstract strategy at the expense of what is going on now.

I'm often appalled at the physical spaces and meeting formats in which people are meant to open their minds, solve problems and inspire progress. Desks are for filling in forms and filing papers – not for creating, thinking, making, learning, or collaborating.

As we approach the end of the year, Jurgen has an unusual tip about how to be more creative, some advice for creating your own luck, an alternative use for a rubber band and a strategy for creating subliminal productivity.