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Try before you buy

I came across ‘14 simple tests before you decide to have children’ the other day on www.jubed.com. I laughed out loud at some of them! Here are a couple of my favourites:

Test 8: Shopping

  1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child – a fully grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
  2. Do your weekly shop without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.
  3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.

Test 9: Feeding a one year-old

  1. Hollow out a melon.
  2. Make a small hole in the side.
  3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
  4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
  5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
  6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.

Those of you who have had small children will know that this isn’t all that far from the truth!

‘Try before you buy’ is a concept that doesn’t work particularly well when it comes to having kids. The good news is that’s not the case for everything.

Our Personal Leadership Programme has the potential to completely transform your organisation. Seriously. But how will you know if it is any good? Rather than taking our word for it, because we are obviously going to be biased (who ever thinks that their baby is ugly!?) or jumping in with both feet without knowing what you are committing your organisation to, why not come or send someone along to one of our open programmes to see for yourself?

Our March Personal Leadership Programme is nearly full and the June programme was almost half booked before we released the dates!

The June dates have just gone on the website – they are 4, 5 and 25 June 2014 and the programme is planned for the midlands area.

One organisation sent a small group of senior managers to our first programme, and some of their comments can be found on the three generals blog. They have already booked even more spaces!

Would you like to join us in June? As demand is increasing it is becoming harder to justify early booking offers, but if you book before midnight on Friday 7 March 2014 then we will be pleased to give you a reduction of £200 off one place or £500 (total) off two.

If you are interested please contact me, Peter Anderton, email peter@artofbrilliance.co.uk or tel 01530 229639. We’re always happy to chat so please get in touch today!