Listen And Learn | Mel Clifford - Stories of the Day

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Selection of Poetry composed by Mel Clifford. Additional poems kindly provided with the permission of the authors.

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Never Lose the Child Within - Your World of Business.

What you create in your life will either support you or hinder you in what you want to achieve. Like the culture you create and support within your organisation, it can make the Company great or destroy it – everyone has a part to play including you. Why do we lose the child within us when we enter the world of Business?

What has this week been about?

Failing is important in our lives for it teaches us many lessons. Making a success of something is hard, the easy part is all you have to do is to try.

Taking risks, getting up again, seeking courage and strength, self belief, standing up for yourself are all the hard parts.

Sometimes we need [...]

You learn from your friends

What was the first joke you heard as a child that you could not tell your parents and who told you?

Mine was told to me by a friend in school it was – Did you hear about the sexy mechanic, he was caught looking up a Mini

I am sure we all have [...]

What For

I played football in the house and oh what a thrill

Until the ball hit the flower pot and did spill

Oh to hide in my bedroom I did quickly go

For surely my mum will see the mess and will know

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CEO’s Undercover –What a Joke

Get Real

Have you been watching these TV programmes about CEO’s or MD’s of organisations who go undercover and work alongside their employees for one week to find out what’s wrong in the Company? After the week they go home and their partners greet them with something like “oh darling how was it [...]

What are your employees complaining about?

Listen and Learn

Just very recently while I was shopping I overheard in two different supermarkets employees giving out to each other about their working conditions. On one occasion I had to interrupt their discussion to ask for directions to locate a product which, I was informed it’s over there. Not impressed [...]

What makes amazing teamwork?

Better Than The Rest

When it actually comes down to it knowing and doing are miles apart. Reading about teamwork, knowing the right qualities, attributes and skills required is very different to being able to put these skills into practice. One finds, elements like those who want the individual glory rather than the [...]

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY?

Let It Flow

Everyone has some story to be told or something they want to say, even get off their chest. I know from my own experience that I have from time to time. Only who do I talk too or who do I tell or will I tell anyone. These are all [...]

Message from a Hostel – Grand Ole Opry

Where Music is Made

Alistair I think you me and baby bear will go to the Opry tonight – what Nora I don’t think I would like Opera singing and all that stuff, and as we are in Yankee Doodle land country music would be better to listen to. Well Alistair the Grand [...]

Is your Company listening?

Answers are not in here

On the 2nd December I wrote about the Inner You and the importance of listening to those voices within. The key is to really listen and find those voices that are hidden that you don’t pay attention to because you are too busy listening to the usual self.

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Mel Clifford – Stories of the Day

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