Storytelling began long before books, theatre or cinema. Its first home may have been a circle of people gathered around a fire. Beyond the flames was darkness, uncertainty and a world that still needed explaining. Around that fire, people told stories to warn of danger, preserve memory, make sense of what had happened and pass...
What people usually see is the finished experience: a programme, a coaching session, a facilitator in the room, a tool, an activity or a slide. What is less visible is everything sitting underneath it. The judgement behind a design choice. Why one activity comes before another. What a practitioner notices. What gets adjusted in the...
A leading regional telecommunications infrastructure group called us ahead of their quarterly offsite. The CEO had carved out one free hour in an otherwise tightly packed agenda and gave a very specific instruction to his L&D team: find someone to run a voice training session for his top team. This is a CEO with presence...
We started with eight. By the end, only three remSometimes the data just needs a different lens. One of my favourite moments in a recent Data to Insight™ programme came from a participant’s reaction to something we introduced in class. The programme is designed for business professionals who work with data but are not formally...
Pauses aren’t good. Nobody necessarily teaches presenters this, yet many behave as though it were true. A pause can feel like wasted time, hesitation, or forgetting what comes next. So presenters fill the silence with words, movement, fillers, the next slide, or the next point. And sometimes, in trying not to lose time, they lose...
We started with eight. By the end, only three remained. But those three? They were present. Committed. Energised. And somehow, the session still felt full. This was The Business Storyteller™ – a newly launched, full 2-day programme, offered complimentary to HR professionals from various organisations. Not a teaser. Not a sampler. The entire experience, delivered...
By the time a People Potential programme begins, much of the work has already happened. Behind every session sits a web of scheduling, client requirements, participant information, materials, evaluations, internal handovers, and last-minute changes. For years, much of this was managed through our internal scheduling system in ClickUp. It worked. But by 2025, the system...
In the evolving field of Learning and Development (L&D), few experiences compare to revisiting familiar territories only to find them teeming with fresh ideas and challenges. The sensation is similar to revisiting your childhood home and finding a Starbucks where your favorite playground once stood. Such was my sentiment during a recent training session. With...
Subconsciously, you always know when a presentation misses the mark – whether it’s an uninspiring narrative, nervous delivery, or cluttered slides. Identifying these specific communication gaps is the essential first step toward transforming your team into clear, persuasive presenters. This assessment is driven by twelve warning signs across content, delivery, and visuals: The Result? When you...
Why would People Potential invest a Saturday morning taking all its trainers through its design stages? Because quality does not happen by accident. Our practitioners’ working breakfast meeting for Quarter 2 on July 4 saw us huddled around a boardroom table. The objective: to ensure that we are all on the same page and speaking...