by Antony Tinker | Aug 5, 2019 | Mentoring/Coaching, Performance, Personal growth
Do you ever get overwhelmed with the amount of things you need to get done in a day or week? I know I do! Always trying to get the balance right between “the urgent” and “the important”. I can get so frustrated at trying to balance everything that somehow, sometimes,...
by Antony Tinker | Feb 5, 2018 | Culture, Performance, Uncategorized
Something happened to me last week that, to my recollection, has never happened in my life before! I was on an early morning train in to London and we were on the last couple miles of the journey, when the train came to a halt away from any station and the driver...
by Antony Tinker | Jan 29, 2018 | Leadership, Performance, Teamwork, Uncategorized
Several years ago (longer than I care to recall!), when I was first made a director and member of the country leadership team, I was driving along the M20 one day to attend a meeting of one of the teams that now reported in to me. The fact is, to this day (over 15...
by Antony Tinker | Jan 22, 2018 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Teamwork, Uncategorized
I worked for an absolutely charming but rather disorganised boss for 2 years in a multinational office where I was his de facto chief of staff (although that was not in my job description or job title). He appeared one day asking me to set up a video conference with...
by Antony Tinker | Jan 15, 2018 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance, Teamwork, Uncategorized
In 2006, I was lucky enough to take a battlegroup to train in Canada. It was a month-long field exercise and we were to spend about 12 days involved in a Tactical Engagement Simulation Exercise (or TESEX). This is a live training event using lasers to simulate...
by Antony Tinker | Jan 15, 2018 | Leadership, Performance, Uncategorized
This weekend I went to the cinema to watch “The Greatest Showman” as so many had told be what an entertaining film it was. I have to say I was quite surprised as I was not expecting the musical and dance spectacular it turned out to be!! …and it was an entertaining...
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