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Newsletter 46 : 20 december 2010

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Happy Christmas
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We like to offer a change from other newsletters which can demand an awful lot of reading…

Quotations of the season

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess
Sir Isaac Newton, great scientist and mathematician, b 25 December 1642, illustrating that it is perfectly reasonable to simultaneously hold two contradictory beliefs

To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp, writer, b 25 December 1908

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Jesus Christ, said to be born… well, you know.

Video of the week

Pioneer and radical thinker in emotional intelligence, Bob Newhart, reveals one of the most powerful techniques in the armoury of us coaches (or should that be ‘we coaches’?). (dur 6:16)

Video of the season

Unto to us a boy is born. In this TED talk, Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman expose four facts that parents of newly born children never admit – but should. Funny and honest, with observations and truths for parents and nonparents alike. (dur 17:09)

Christmas games and carols

Fun for all the family – ideal for wiling away those long hours between Christmas and New Year when noone seems to do any work.

Workshops for the New Year

Returning to work
A one day workshop with Kay McMahon, 19 January 2011, Bristol.

Do you know someone who needs to return to work after a career break? Perhaps they have had a baby and now need to support the family. Has their confidence waned? Maybe they’re not sure if it’s the right thing to be doing? This brand-new workshop, “Returning to work”, is supportive and caring and will help them deal with any issues and set their priorities so they know they’re doing the right thing.

Where next?
A one day workshop with Jeremy Marchant, 26 January 2011, Bristol.

Do you know someone who needs to find a new job? Or are they just stuck in a rut? Wanting a more rewarding career? Making the right change of job can only happen when they know where they want to be. Our new workshop, “Where next?”, will help people brighten up their thinking and clarify goals so they can be confident that the job-search can bring rewards.

Joint ventures between emotional intelligence at work and Pitman Training.

All contributions welcome.
Thanks this time to Jonathan Evans of Skills for Health

If you have been, thank you for reading.
Kay and Jeremy