I am self employed providing a range of services to assist clients in using the Inherent effectively. I have many years of experience in this area which I am willing to share.
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I am a committed Christian. I am interested in helping people and communities. I enjoy networking and working in a loose co-operative with others.
I am a freelance journalist and writer, and have been living in northern Spain with my wife and two young children since 2003. After receiving countless comments from people keen to follow our example, but who for one reason or another never quite managed to make the jump, I decided to do something to help. The upshot is "Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The Truth About Moving Abroad And Whether It's Right For You," an e-book guide for people seeking advice on whether or not to move overseas. It aims to help readers clarify their thoughts and feelings about what living abroad would really mean for them, and to give them that extra impetus to pursue the life of their dreams, wherever that may turn out to be. If you're interested in more details about the book you can visit my website at http://www.expatliving101.com/
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I am a full-time freelance journalist, striving to be a full-time published author! As such, interests include writing and reading. Whenever I get the opportunity (rare these days with two young children!) I also enjoy various sports, especially golf, football and tennis.
In addition to my work with Internal Communication I am also a Director of this crisis intervention charity I'm committed to raise around £45,000 each year to enable this organisation to function. Foodbank uses a ground-breaking concept to help individuals and families in crisis by providing free emergency food until the appropriate agencies are in a position to assist. In 2007 Swindon Foodbank received 1079 referrals from the Professional Care Agencies in the town and provided those people with food until the State Benefit kicked in. It can take between 7 and 33 days for fresh or altered benefit claims to come through and Foodbank fills that void.
Normally I am running in four 1/2 marathons a year, or a few full marathons ~ 2007 was the first year since 1999 that my health let me down and I did not run beyond the end of my street..!
In 2003, I bought into a Swedish Corporate Strategic Internal Communication tool developed by Bengt-Arne Svennberg and Kent Fälth to improve employee engagement through enhanced internal communciation in the 1000+ employee corporate organisations. And so OPC (UK) Ltd was born.
In case you were wondering… OPC Stands for the Optimum Process of Communication.
We use strategic internal communcation to engage twice the critical mass an organisation requires to ensure an initiative is launched successfully in less than four hours, We create a top-down and bottom-up avalanche and give birth to the organisation's ambitions within the hearts and minds of every individual.
I get involved with the research, design and delivery with Bengt-Arne and have shaped a number of mission critical internal communication and employee engagement projects for British, Swedish and Global companies since early 2003.
The OPC Process® ~ is a new and highly successful method for spreading knowledge across an enterprise, strategic internal communication and employee engagement. It cascades any message throughout an organisation more effectively and imbeds it faster than ever before.
The OPC Process ® is just as effective on large global organisations as on a one site enterprise that needs internal branding, employee engagement or internal strategic communication. It has been used by organisations to present the same key message to over 50.000 participants in over 31 different languages and countries
The OPC Process® enables an organisation to deliver strategic internal communication of any key message in a way that engages and energises many employees simultaneously. This is accomplished through a distinct pedagogical format which ensures employees have an opportunity to explore and also brings stability and consistency to the process.
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On the personal side;
Working with a coach called Nick Heap recently enabled me to gain further insight into my purpose. This I now understand as Oozing Light
Apart from my work on internal communicationand employee engagement, my one greatest passion is being a source of l.i.g.h.t. ~ love ~ inspiration ~ growth ~ happiness and truth to others especially my family and friends. I am married with four children (oldest born in 1980 & youngest in 1987). I live in Swindon, run the local Alpha Course at the Church I attend ~ St John's ~ and in 2005 I helped start a Food Bank for the 1 in 5/6 people in this great town of 180,000 who are "income deprived." Have a look at what the Salisbury Food Bank is accomplishing. Read the latest up date on the Swindon Food Bank here
While I love all of the items I've listed in the 50 words (outside of internal communications and employee engagement), in addition to my wife Julie, I especially love Spurs my football team (land of my birth), Lord of the Rings (best book outside the Bible/best film since Star Wars), and running ~ preferable half marathons upwards. In 2001 I ran from Land's End to John O'Groats in 40 days (33 marathons ~ 3 shorter runs and four days of rest). This was to raise money for a boy called Podge who was very severely burnt (60+% 3rd degree burns) by another 12 year old. Take a look at the whole story on www.givetheladachance.co.uk ~ the site has not been updated recently but it does describe what happened to Podge and most of the lessons I learnt of the run.
I love selling, training, facilitating, coaching and speaking. I have been heavily influenced by the work of Eric Jensen on Brain Based Learning and Dale Carnegie on HR and presentation skills. I am energetic, passionate, enthusiastic and believe in commitment and ownership. The whole democratic approach we have to internal communication and employee engagement fits very well with my essential value and beliefs.
hi I am a NLP Practitioner, who is really keen to see people living to their maximum potential. I focus on Breakthrough Coaching and see some amazing successes happening each day!
I am an active fund-raiser, an active networker, and a lover of life, with a passion for family time.
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setting massive goals, walking, reading, computer, networking, people,
Broke and homeless at the age of 28...David used the principles in his book 'The Soul Millionaire' to turn his life around. From the depths of despair he rose to become a master of his craft as a Financial Planner, creating revenue streams enjoyed by only the top 1% of his profession in the UK.
Now, through his company The Soul Millionaire Ltd, he is engaged to coach and train entrepreneurs, professional advisers and corporate executives, to create 'Purpose Driven Businesses'. He also travels internationally as a Professional Speaker for conferences, conventions, seminars and workshops.
Yet, it is in his role as a work-in-progress husband and father of four children where he sees his greatest adventure of all!
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At heart I'm a teacher.
I love sharing life-changing principles with entrepreneurs and business executives.
Most of all, I love teaching life-building principles to bright, feisty Youth, who instinctively still have the guts to ask "What's it all about?"
In an increasingly secular, politically correct society, I love letting people know that I centre my life on my relationship with God.
I'm passionate about speaking to large groups and seeing the 'lights go on'.
I run and swim to think more creatively.
I love conversation which 'goes deep'.
I love dancing as I did when I was 17, and pretending I can swim underwater.
I relish my children's delight when they know they're fulfilling their potential.
I love stories read by my 12 year old.
I get excited when I can almost sing.
I love England in the Spring, and the pounding of the sea.
I adore sea food, Mum's jamaican cooking, english pies and Green and Black's chocolate ice cream.
I love escaping the madness of television and feeling the serenity of nature.
I love the wind around me when I'm climbing hills.