Published on Sun/5/2013 Mindful Manager’s Spa
The Spa for Mindfulness in Management
The alternative title for this post is:   Mindful Managers Actually Do Spa or   Mindful Managers Should Spa or The Spa For Mindful Management Forget The Spa for Embarrassing Illnesses (The famous TV show) The Spa for Mindful Management is here! What is it? It is the New L&D/ OD technique I created that is attracting [...]

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Published on Sun/14/2013 Leadership Retreats
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Today I read a great explanation of why company directors now seek spa, retreats or alternative modes for sharpening their own organisation leadership talents. It’s all part of the wider concern about the suitability of business schools, MBA courses or traditional offerings in preparing today’s leaders for senior management. How to find more effective techniques for management learning is not only [...]

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Published on Sun/7/2013 Spa for Stress Prevention
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I was nervous about presenting a controversial message when talking of my practice of Spa Located Organisation Development to the international delegates attending the Professional Spa & Wellness Convention at Excel London recently (Feb 2013). You see, the subtitle of my talk was Avoiding the Too Fluffy Tag. But it seems my message had hit the right spot both from [...]

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Published on Fri/8/2013 Spa on Sky R:1
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Review of The Spa (Sky Living): Episode 1 Although I missed the live airing of the first episode of Sky Living’s The Spa, watching it the morning after certainly set me on a positive note for the rest of the day. I found it hilarious and it was great to see many familiar faces from [...]

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Published on Sun/3/2013 The Spa TV Comedy
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The Spa TV Comedy Series: Blogger’s Review Intro  The Spa a new TV comedy series is about to be aired on Sky Living (UK TV Channel) … and I cant wait! I’ve had a couple of years of writing reviews of The Apprentice and other TV shows that depict businesses on Clever Blogs. However followers of this blog post [...]

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Published on Sun/3/2013 Spa Convention 2013
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I’m Speaking at Professional Spa & Wellness Convention 2013 If you’re going to Professional Spa & Wellness Convention 2013 look out for my talk after lunch on 24th. Do come up and say hello. Like others are doing you too can contact me before hand to arrange a  specific time for us meet, sit and have a [...]

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Published on Sat/19/2013 Lazy Spa Management
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Lazy Spa Management Tactic No 1 Salon and spa directors who rely on the product houses to do all the training may not realise they are not helping their staff to develop and contributing to some of the degeneration in consumer’s perception of the sector. Some of my early hunches about this were confirmed by [...]

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Published on Tue/11/2012 Business to Businesses
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Promoting Spa to Women’s Business Network Groups  Women’s business networks are a great source of clients for mobile therapists or corporate facing spas. These are a few I know of in London European W omens Business Network Athena Network- I’m Chair of the Shepherds Bush Branch and we meet upstairs at The Bull in Westfield White City [...]

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Published on Tue/11/2012 Spa Product Experiment
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Beauty and Spa Product  Experiment – Volunteers Needed! Early January 2013 Sees me working on a product claim verification study with cosmetic science colleagues at London College of Fashion. We need female volunteers aged in their 30′s 40′s 50′s and 60′s If you would like to take part in the study please drop me a line with Beauty Experiment in the [...]

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Published on Mon/10/2012 Magazine Column
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I wrote a two page column for Professional Spa and Wellness Magazine, Christmas issue Dec 2012. It’s about how managers can help their spa therapists move into management and spa directing. Read all about it! I’m on pages 27 to 28       Share this:Facebook

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