People Playbook

Purposeful. Practical. Playful. We craft and facilitate learning experiences for leaders and teams.

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@deirdrebrennann Woo hoo! Go, team! Proud to be the sponsor of Ireland's U18 Women's National Team 🏀

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Way to lead @PeoplePlaybook💚🇮🇪🏀

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Big News: We’re changing how we work.

We’ve been doing L&D all wrong—too much fun and engagement.

Starting today you can expect:

✅ 8-hour PowerPoint marathons
✅ Soul Crushing Lectures | No connection, just rejection
✅ Zero Interaction | More slides and no interaction

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💬 This week, replace one vague piece of feedback ("Good job") with a specific observation about impact ("Your detailed research helped us land that client"). Watch how this small shift freshens up your entire leadership approach.

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Dust off our feedback skills and do some spring cleaning. 🧹 Here's what to try:

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Take three deep breaths, name three facts you know for certain, identify two things you can control right now, and focus on one immediate next step. Sometimes, the best crisis leadership isn't about having all the answers—it's about providing calm clarity when it matters most.

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Crisis moments don't build leadership character—they reveal it.

Next time tension rises, try these tips:

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Sometimes, the best leadership move is to remove barriers, not add systems. Take 15 mins today to list your team's most common friction points, then challenge yourself to solve them with subtraction rather than addition—what could you stop doing, simplify, or eliminate entirely?

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This week, schedule one non-negotiable moment each day that fills your tank, whether it's a morning walk, a proper lunch break, or setting a firm 'going offline' time. Your team needs your best energy, not your constant availability. What's your daily non-negotiable?

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Playmaker Summit 2025
Last week, we hosted our second-ever Playmaker Summit, bringing our entire team together in Belfast for three days of connection, alignment, A huge thank you to every Playmaker who showed up with energy, generosity, and an open mind.

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Meet our Playmaker: Lucie Coudret – Coach, Facilitator and Learning Designer 🎨

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Meet our Playmaker: Lucie Coudret – Coach, Facilitator and Learning Designer 🎨

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Meet our Playmaker: Tracey Madigan – Communications Specialist, 1:1 Speaking Coach and Facilitator 🗣️

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Meet our Playmaker: Jarred Christmas – Comedian, Facilitator and MC 🎤

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A Playmaker is a skilled facilitator and/or learning designer who specializes in crafting and delivering purposeful, practical, and playful development experiences for teams and leaders. They possess expertise in creating engaging environments that foster growth & collaboration.

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People Playbook started around the same time as the pandemic. We focused our energy on creating fresh, engaging & interactive workshops - online and face-to-face👩‍💻

Listen to Best of Belfast episode #218, to learn more🙌
#peopleplaybook #mentalhealth

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Meet our Mental Health & Wellbeing Expert, Richard Boyle. Richard has been instrumental in co-creating a series of workshops. Our workshops, provide practical tools and expert insights, enabling leaders to better support their teams. [email protected]
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Staff had a great wellbeing workshop this afternoon with Tony and Richard from People Playbook. Shout out to Lucy for her amazing singing. We all loved the messages from pupils including these 3 stars.. Thank you.

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We’re partnering with @Trustpilot on global leadership development programs. Here is what Julie Cosson Jensen (Head of HR, CEU) had to say about our workshop series, Leading Your Mental Health, designed for people managers at all levels in Trustpilot. #peopleplaybook

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Great workshop today at @PwC_NI with People Playbook's Richard Boyle & Tony McGaharan on how to say "no" in order to boost productivity and wellbeing 🙏

Honored to facilitate in PwC’s first-ever purpose-built wellbeing space and their second-largest office in the UK 🙌
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