Face-to-face communication in business remains important. While we increasingly rely on the convenience of emails, text messages, web casting and social media, we need to balance these online interactions with physical engagement. However digitally enabled we become, we still want to do business with people we know and…
We are now in the pre-election period, so called purdah, as the UK prepares to decide who will lead and populate its 56th parliament. All the familiar signs are there – daily policy announcements, breathless political reporting and a British public already worn down by…
As I anticipate an imminent trip to South Africa to compete in the annual Cape Argus Cycle Tour, the world’s largest timed cycle race no less, there is the respite from a grey, wet London to relish but also, at a personal level, I am…
Now is the time to activate that plan to be better in 2015. Driving the plan, no doubt, is a piercing analysis of the opportunities provided by the coming months, aided possibly by the seasonal supply of crystal ball gazing, from a wide variety of…
For me, one of this year’s distinctive themes has been the fascinating tension between opportunities made available to us by relentless technological advances and how we respond in practice when some of these innovations meet our less sophisticated preferences or basic instincts. Last Sunday’s edition of…
I have just liked a blog I read on LinkedIn a couple of days ago – ‘No, you are not running late, you are rude and selfish’, by Greg Savage. Closer examination revealed that this was a link to a site which featured the piece…
Bigfoot is owned and run by Paul Tredwell. Since 2004 I have been an independent communications consultant, delivering a wide range of projects but with a focus on and passion for relationship optimisation.
