January 2021 - etc.co.uk

Everyday experiments. Cool and creative ways to shoot using just your iPhone

Creatives amongst you will love this, and it’s well worth a forward to members of your team. The Everyday Experiments duo show how to capture incredible footage using just an iPhone 12. Balloons + Slo-mo, Oil + Water + Macro and Glow-sticks + Night mode. If you’ve got an iPhone12, there’s not a chance you

January 20, 2021 by Andy Brown in Creativity, Innovation

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A practical guide to working remotely with all 16 personality types

As remote working is set to remain commonplace even after the Covid-19 pandemic subsides, rules around engagement and support of employees will need to be re evaluated. Face-to-face meetings and their associated body language, can often help leaders to find out more about their team, but timed Zoom meetings and the inability to see even

January 20, 2021 by Andy Brown in Best Practice, Culture, Knowledge, Management, Organisations, Remote Working

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Communicating. Is it easier in small teams?

You may have heard the famous “two pizza rule” saying from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos —if a team can’t be fed by two pizzas, that team is too big. I began thinking a little more about this recently after stumbling across the below diagram on LinkedIn – an illustration often used to explain how ‘smaller

January 20, 2021 by Andy Brown in etc musings, Leadership, Management, Organisations

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WATCH: Are you Being your Authentic Self from Monday – Friday?

A revelatory conversation with a client this week (who also okayed this post) led me to record this short video on being your authentic self. We were discussing the restorative power of the Christmas break, and how he had become incredibly creative during the time ‘off” – writing children’s stories no less. The conversation progressed

January 20, 2021 by Andy Brown in Creativity, etc musings, Uncategorized, Wisdom

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10 Things that require zero talent

This is a postcard I produced for our team at agenda21 about 5 years ago. I found it in a box of old papers last year. When we were working on our values, I wanted everyone to start challenging their own attitudes about work and the way we behave. I had a version of the

January 6, 2021 by Andy Brown in Creativity, Culture, etc musings, Management