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Congratulations to our client Morgan Advanced Materials.

They have just been recognised in the ‘Job Crowd - Top Companies for Graduates to work for’ award for the third consecutive year. These rankings are unique because they are based entirely on graduate feedback which is a real testament to the Graduate Leadership Programme. Need for Achievement are proud to be the main training contributor to this programme. Please get in touch to find out about our Graduate Training provision.

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“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day”. Mark Twain.

Brian Tracy is the expert on frog eating and he says there are 2 rules.

1. If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

2. If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.

Frogs are those tasks, jobs, things you have to do but they are big, ugly and a bit scary. So we put them off. We make a cup of tea, we work on that presentation, we talk to a colleague…we do anything but eat the frog!

BUT the frog is still there. It’s looking at you. It gets bigger and uglier and you spend precious energy trying to avoid it, not think about it. The trouble with frogs is that they are distracting and they demand your attention even though you want to think about something else.

And what happens at the end of the day when you haven’t dealt with that frog? It sometimes hops in your bag and comes home with you. It distracts you from your family and can wake you up at night. No one wants to look at a frog on their pillow right?

So get it done. Eat that frog. Eat it fast and do it first!

Zero in on the most challenging tasks and get them done first. You’ll get more done faster, you’ll focus better and you’ll get the right things done.

Imagine what you will do with all your extra time.

We are very excited that our redesigned, beautifully organic website has now launched. Its clean, natural and open style is designed to reflect who we are as a company and give people the opportunity to get to know us a bit better.

Take a stroll through the site and you’ll get pretty good idea of what we are do, who makes up our great team and what others are saying about us.

We’d love to hear what you think.

Please drop us a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 01666 829 333 and let us know.

Well done to all Morgan Advanced Materials graduates who passed their ILM Level 5! Two years hard work culminated in a black tie dinner held in their honour on 16 November.

It was a wonderful evening and well attended by senior management including Pete Raby - CEO, Hazel Bell - European HR Director and Keith Parker - Marketing Director. We were very proud and honoured to attend and celebrate the graduates’ achievement.

Congratulations to each and every one of them.

Our ancient hilltop town, Malmesbury, was chosen once again to host one of the BBC’s History Weekends in October. We welcomed 40 leading historians and authors who came to speak about a wide range of subjects. We felt incredibly privileged to attend a number of these lectures.

We particularly enjoyed Sir Max Hastings’ incredible talk about the secret war fought through espionage and intelligence in World War II. He is a speaker that draws you in with his conversational manner and you can’t help but hang on his every word.

Equally awe inspiring were Saul David’s revelations about Operation Thunderbolt. He recounted his research on the famous 1976 hijack and its bloody resolution in Entebbe by Israeli commandos. It's considered by many to be the most audacious hostage rescue mission in history.

We think it's important for us to attend events like this and see a wide variety of speakers and presenters. Not just for personal interest in the content and to have a great night out, but also because it adds to our own professional learning and appreciation of different presenting styles. It keeps us fresh, continually developing and adding to our wealth of experience that we can then use in our work with clients and delegates.

Our fourth cohort of Graduates at Morgan Advanced Materials kicked off their Leadership Programme including ILM level 5 certification in sunny Ruabon, Wales with us in October. They spent their first day developing, polishing and honing their presentation skills.

It’s a challenging start to the programme but an essential skill to master in business and one that the graduates rose to impressively. The second day focussed on understanding behaviour and was spent outdoors working on practical and sometimes physical challenges. Relationships were forged and teams bonded. Great to see. We are already looking forward to the next module.