As cross-party talks on social care reform bring the future funding of elderly care into the spotlight, Ian Stone, sales, marketing and development Director at apetito examines the vital role Community Meals play in keeping the elderly in their homes for longer, easing the burden on Britain’s overstretched care system. While some ministers support the [...]

The report demonstrates that older people are already a fundamental part of the government’s Big Society vision and considers how their level of engagement can be maintained and increased. The report was produced by Res Publica in conjunction with Independent Age. It sets out a raft of policies aimed at breaking down barriers that hamper [...]

Manfred Kets de Vries throws the spotlight on the secrets of building high performance teams. He presents the case for leadership group coaching as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high performance team. His group coaching model, incorporating living case studies, has been developed over more than 20 years of delivering [...]

In Visual Teams, David Sibbet uses visual tools and methods to help teams—both face-to-face and virtual—reach high performance in today’s work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication—one that opens up the group’s mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and [...]