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Nick at Poppyfish
- Jul 3, 2023
- 2 min
Amplifying Your Voice: How to Achieve Greater Influence and Impact at Work
Being heard and having influence can make a significant difference in your professional success. It's important to feel that your ideas...
Nick at Poppyfish
- Jun 23, 2023
- 3 min
Unleashing the Influence Game: Middle Managers' Playbook of Cialdini's Principles
When it comes to the art of influence, Robert Cialdini's principles have long been championed. For anyone seeking to level up their...
Nick at Poppyfish
- Jun 19, 2023
- 2 min
Belonging: Why does it matter and how can we grow it?
One theme of organisational life that has a heightened emphasis post-covid is the concept of belonging. Belonging refers to a deep sense...
Nick at Poppyfish
- Mar 2, 2023
- 3 min
Facilitation: The Sword to Slay the 5 dysfunctions of teams?
I was listening to the excellent 'Oh For Food’s Sake' podcast the other day in which Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager were talking about...
Nick at Poppyfish
- May 9, 2021
- 3 min
A colourful approach to strategy
Behaviour profiles are well known for allowing individuals to generate a strategy for change, but can they be used at the organisational...
Nick at Poppyfish
- Mar 19, 2021
- 1 min
Miro, Miro, on the wall
Like many businesses, Poppyfish has been adapting to a changing world, reshaping and reimagining our services to offer you the support...
Nick at Poppyfish
- Mar 19, 2021
- 1 min
Leading a Remote Team? - Help is at Hand
Leading a remote team is a challenging task. A Poppyfish team engagement workshop can help tackle that challenge
Nick at Poppyfish
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
What goes around, comes around - from OODA to SODA
The OODA Loop is a decision making cycle that has it's origins in the 1950's. It was the brainchild of Colonel John Boyd, an American Air...
Nick Skinner
- May 7, 2020
- 2 min
The new view
Photographers know that if you want a new perspective then all you have to do is change the lens. Viewing life through the same lens...
Nick Skinner
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
WTF? A mantra for facilitation
Have you ever sat in a facilitated workshop and asked yourself; WTF? I have. I do it before and during every workshop. I do it when I'm...
Nick at Poppyfish
- Feb 9, 2020
- 1 min
The Poppyfish Wheel
We created the Poppyfish Wheel to show what we do and how we do it. In short, we use the wheel to focus on your people, your culture and...
Nick Skinner
- Oct 25, 2019
- 6 min
The rocket fuels of facilitation
The best group facilitated sessions create a combustible engine room atmosphere, fuelled by a perfect mix of high octane ingredients. The...
Nick Skinner
- Oct 14, 2019
- 1 min
Welcome to Poppyfish
Welcome to Poppyfish. We are a UK based team of organisational development professionals. Since 2012 we have worked as coaches,...
Nick Skinner
- Feb 23, 2018
- 4 min
So you want to be a great scientist?
I'm not a research scientist. I am not an engineer. But I have spent almost 30 years working alongside research scientists, engineers and...
Nick Skinner
- Feb 14, 2017
- 4 min
Wanted: Time Travellers
Ask anyone what they would do if they could travel in time and sooner or later someone will tell you they would go forward to the next...
Nick Skinner
- Jul 22, 2016
- 4 min
Simulate to Stimulate - The 8 key benefits of simulations and decision making exercises
The chances are that you would never even dream of boarding a plane where the crew had not been drilled in how to cope in the event of an...
Nick Skinner
- Jun 23, 2016
- 3 min
Goodbye Mr Clipboard - The Change Agents of Health and Safety
The use of "self" as an instrument of change is not a new concept. As consultants we talk of personal leadership, authenticity and...
Nick at Poppyfish
- Jul 12, 2013
- 1 min
Playing in the NIAB sandpit
A selection of photo's from this week's sandpit with NIAB's Innovation Farm. Proof, if any were needed, that quality conversations are a...
Nick Skinner
- May 8, 2013
- 5 min
Resilience: Sometimes it just IS cricket
The legendary Australian fast bowler, Jeff Thomson, had a great way of putting things. 'Tommo', who alongside the equally fearsome Dennis...
Nick Skinner
- Mar 27, 2013
- 5 min
Record Breakers! Say hello to the iPot
The room was bursting with undergraduates. In fact, had Roy Castle and Norris McWhirter walked in then the Record Breaking nature of what...
Nick Skinner
- Feb 11, 2013
- 4 min
Are you a Snow Bully?
Being a snow bully is snow joke… Everyone knows a snow bully. Snow bullies just love it when the snow comes, for this is the chance for...
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