Magazine - Articles by Frank Newberry

Five quick tips for jobseekers
2 Weeks ago - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 40 - Dec / Jan 2012
With the overall unemployment rate (at the time of writing) standing at one in twelve people in the UK - its highest level for sixteen years - and youth unemployment standing at one in five of young people and rising, Trainer and Motivational Speaker, Frank Newberry, offers a few quick tips for job seekers

How to Manage Other People’s Expectations
30 Nov 2011 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011 - 1 comment
In his previous article Pitchcare Trainer and Motivational Speaker Frank Newberry explored how our expectations of ourselves can have an impact on our own performance. In this article he checks out what we might do to keep our customers’ expectations in touch with our realities!

Can you be better, or is this as good as you are going to get?
30 Sep 2011 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 38 - Aug / Sept 2011
In his last article Performance Consultant and Motivational Speaker, Frank Newberry, explored how the power of your expectation can influence the performance of others. In this article he considers how our expectations of ourselves can affect our own performance.

What do you expect?
14 Aug 2011 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 37 - Jun / Jul 2011
Leadership trainer and conference speaker, Frank Newberry, considers how good leaders understand how the ‘power of expectation’ can be used to influence outcomes, particularly the performance of others. Frank also challenges us to raise our expectations of ourselves and of other people

Be more selfish!
28 May 2011 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 36 - Apr / May 2011
After more than forty years doing voluntary work in the UK and abroad, performance consultant and conference speaker, Frank Newberry, has examined his motives and concluded that he has personally benefitted most from any ‘good works’. Frank also challenges us all to ‘be more selfish’ and do more voluntary work

Top tips for interviewers - Part II
26 Mar 2011 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 35 - Feb / Mar 2011 - 6 comments
In Part II, Frank Newberry looks at how to interview for evidence and how to probe for the truth in those reassuring but dodgy candidate responses

Top tips for interviewers - Part 1: Suitability Screening
16 Feb 2011 - Training - Frank Newberry - Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011
In Part 1, Interviewer, Trainer and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, offers some tips on how to test suitability before holding an interview so that you can separate the ‘well qualified wannabes’ from the better suited ‘sure things’ you are after.

Can you change the future? Part II - Painless Presentations
29 Nov 2010 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 33 - Oct / Nov 2010
In Part 1, Top Pitchcare Trainer and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, explored how we can change the future one person at a time by coaching and mentoring individuals. In Part 2, Frank looks at how we can leave a positive legacy by giving painless presentations at work, e.g. at meetings of all types and even conferences

Can you change the future?
10 Sep 2010 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 32 - Aug / Sept 2010
Part 1: Coaching and Mentoring - Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, makes the case for how you can change the future - at any time in your career. He concludes that you do not have to wait until the last few years of your career to plan the legacy of professionalism you will leave for posterity.

Why won't you be open with me?
19 Jul 2010 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 31 - Jun / Jul 2010
In the second and final part of his article, Frank Newberry looks at the methods people use to avoid being open and honest in the workplace, and how we can tackle this problem in ourselves and in others.

Why won’t you be open with me?
11 May 2010 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 30 - Apr / May 2010
Part 1: I can’t tell you! - Fresh from successful speaking assignments in Vienna, Ireland and Chipping Sodbury - Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, makes the case for more openness in the workplace. In Part 2 he will look at the sophisticated methods people use to avoid being open with others and how we can tackle this problem in ourselves and in others

Handling Conflict - Part 3: Responding well to conflicts we cannot avoid
12 Apr 2010 - Training - Frank Newberry - Issue 29 - Feb / Mar 2010
Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker Frank Newberry considers ways in which we can prepare for and respond effectively to a conflict at work that we may not be able to avoid.

Handling Conflict II
13 Feb 2010 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 28 - Dec / Jan 2010 - 2 comments
In Part 1 of this series Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, explored how the uncomfortable experience of conflict in the workplace can bring positive outcomes.

Handling conflict
30 Nov 2009 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 27 - Oct / Nov 2009
In these difficult times of increased workloads and higher anxiety levels, conflict in the workplace can so easily arise. Consultant and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, argues that conflict at work is not necessarily a bad thing.

Keeping your job
5 Nov 2009 - Consultancy - Frank Newberry - Issue 26 - Aug / Sep 2009 - 1 comment
It has never been easier to lose your job and, surely, there is nothing you can do to dodge the redundancy bullet if it has your name on it? Frank Newberry offers some timely advice to those faced with losing their job.

You need to lead - part 2
5 Apr 2009 - Training - Frank Newberry - Issue 23 - Feb / Mar 2009
Fresh from being rated the top presenter at the EGU/GCMA Conference Programme at Harrogate Week, trainer Frank Newberry considers how leaders at all levels in organisations need to get involved in shaping the future.

You need to lead
6 Mar 2009 - Training - Frank Newberry - Issue 22 - Dec / Jan 2009
Celebrating 20 years of working with Groundsmen and Greenkeepers in January 2009, Trainer and Conference Speaker Frank Newberry focuses on the need for us all to show leadership at whatever level we are in our organisation. In Part 1 Frank looks at supervisory leadership i.e. 'Taking Charge'

Don’t ask me to do that - I can’t change now!
13 Dec 2008 - Training - Frank Newberry
With Pitchcare’s Health and Safety Workshop in September getting rave reviews.

Solutions are not the answer!!
7 Oct 2008 - Training - Frank Newberry
Trainer and Conference Speaker Frank Newberry presented the third part of Pitchcare's Essential Management Skills Programme for Groundsmen and Greenkeepers at Leicester Tigers’ Welford Road Stadium.