The 30-Minute Meeting Challenge
How can we reduce meeting time, keep focus and ensure the right people are present and engaged? Should you even attend and stay in a meeting?
Delivering High Team Performance in the Nuclear Sector
Acorn’s continued work with the UK nuclear sector over recent years has seen our involvement in three high profile projects, each in very different areas of activity: new build, procurement and decommissioning.
Acorn Working with Kier SLT on HMP Glasgow
Acorn have been appointed to support a senior leadership team from Kier Construction on the construction of HMP Glasgow, new modern and fit-for-purpose prison will replace the largest prison in Scotland.
Supporting NIS Leaders to Deliver the Business Plan
Acorn are delighted to be working once again with NIS Integrated Engineering, the North West-based advanced engineers who are part of the NIS Group which includes NSG Environmental.
Leadership White Paper – Belief
This second paper by Mike Pezet shifts focus to programme design, delivery and the programme ‘ingredients’ which Acorn believe enables learning to transfer into tangible, productive workplace action.
Leadership White Paper – Development of Purposeful Leaders
Whether leaders are ‘born’ or ‘made’ is an age-old debate. When people are asked this question, generally the response is ‘leaders are made’. Ask whether they see themselves as a leader and the response is often ‘I’m in the role but wouldn’t say I’m the ‘leader’’.
More Positive News from the Kinamba Community Project
We were delighted to receive an update this week from Meg Fletcher at the Kinamba Community Project with news on latest happenings at the project in the Kigali region of Rwanda.
Update on the Sellafield HAWTT Programme
Update on the Sellafield HAWTT Programme Since being appointed in Q4 2021 to support the Higher Active Waste Thermal Treatment (HAWTT) programme, good progress has been made with the joint venture teams commissioned to deliver the objectives of Tranche 1 (PCM) and Tranche 2 (sludge). To recap, in its strategy published in March 2021, the…
Acorn Appointed to Support RACER Programme at LLWR
Acorn Appointed to Support RACER Programme at LLWR Acorn Coaching & Development have been commissioned to support a new major programme for Nuclear Waste Services at the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) site in west Cumbria. The Repository Asset Care Enhancements and Remediation (RACER) programme will give Nuclear Waste Services increased capacity to support current…
The Gibraltar Race 2022 – PraRiPra Edition
The Gibraltar Race 2022 – PraRiPra Edition Bruised, battered and completely exhausted isn’t exactly everyone’s idea of how to return after a few weeks away from work, but then Acorn’s Keith Longney knows exactly what he’s letting himself in for and that the Gibraltar Race Raid isn’t going to be anything like your typical vacation.…