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From leadership and company culture to self-improvement and current affairs, our blog offers practical tips and advice to help you learn and grow.
Discover how to become a more effective leader, build a thriving team, and achieve your ambitions. Among other things our blogs can help you to:
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- Develop a positive mindset, cultivate resilience, build confidence, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Karen writes about things that inspire her in a hope they will inspire you too. Ultimately she’s strive to help you to become a more effective leader, a successful individual, and a well-rounded citizen of the world.
Building Confidence: Tips to Elevate Your Self-Esteem
I’m often saddened by how many of my clients lack confidence and even low self regard. All too often I am able to see their strengths and potential, when they don’t. Even when I encourage them to recognise their own gifts and value to their employer, they resist.
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Staying focused in a busy job with loads of competing priorities
In today's fast-paced work environment, it's not uncommon for people to find themselves submerged in a sea of tasks, with each wave threatening to pull our focus away from essential priorities. The constant influx of emails, unexpected meetings, and looming deadlines can make it challenging to stay on track. It’s a challenge most of the leaders we work with face.
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Cultivating Patience: Steps to being a Calmer You
Let’s face it people and life can be frustrating at times. Patience hasn’t always been my strength so I can empathise with the many leaders I work with who struggle to be patient when faced with the challenges inherent in influencing the performance of teams, progress of priorities and achievement of results.
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Be and work for a 'family-friendly' leader
Maintaining balance between the demands of your job and those of your family life comes down to the decisions you make. Your ability to maintain balance is ultimately a reflection of what you choose to prioritise, who you choose to work for and what you choose to accept.
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Enabling Beliefs
Reflect for a moment on the ways in which the beliefs you hold influence the choices you make in life, including at work. Do the things you believe about your capabilities inspire you to step forward and take on new challenges, or do they hold you back? How often do you allow limiting beliefs to cause you to hesitate to give things a go or speak up with confidence?
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Knowing when to surrender
Reflect on how many fights you are actively engaged in right now. With yourself, family members or colleagues. To be clear, by fight I mean being in a state of struggle in which we are resisting or working to overcome, eliminate or prevent our circumstances.
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Strong Foundations
It’s quite extraordinary how one 'aha' moment can have a massive impact on our thinking, emotions and actions. The most recent example for me happened during a three-day immersive development retreat.
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Motivation myth
While having lunch with my son recently he proclaimed, “Mum, I think motivation is a myth”. He went on to explain that he doesn’t believe motivation is what enables us to get started, but rather a feeling that builds when we achieve forward momentum or a sense of progress.
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Combating unconscious bias
Searching for information about the impacts of unconscious biases on people at work, I came across an article titled ‘Physical Attractiveness Bias in Employee Termination’ by Melissa Commisso and Lisa Finkelstein from the Department of Psychology at Northern Illinois University.
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Value adding performance management
It doesn’t matter how well designed a performance management system is, unless it is effectively applied it will add little to no value. What matters most is the approach people leaders take every day to getting the best from each person on their team.
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Growing emotional intelligence
How emotionally intelligent are you? This is a particularly difficult question for most of us to answer.
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CEO fires 900 staff on a Zoom call...
In case you’ve missed it in the news, the latest staggeringly poor example of business leadership is brought to us courtesy of Better.com CEO Vishal Garg.
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Lessons learned from Viktor Frankl's 'Man's Search for Meaning'
Recently I finished reading Viktor Frankl’s famous book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ and was reminded of just how much power we each have to choose how we perceive and experience reality.
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Executing a strategy through your people
Did you miss our second live webinar?
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Just deal with it already!
Contemplate for a moment on how often you avoid dealing with the problems you need to. Now ask yourself how well that typically turns out - for you, your team or even your business. In my experience avoidance simply prolongs agony and often makes things worse. All too often the people I work with hesitate to address issues and ultimately pay a price. Energy, time, money and momentum are all lost when roadblocks to success are tolerated, ignored or simply put in the ‘too hard to deal with right now’ basket.
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Are you biting off more than you can chew?
While working with a client recently he said to me “we’re like a python that has swallowed a cow”. Apart from making me hearty laugh, his comment also made me reflect on all the people and businesses I work with that fit that description.
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Dealing with reality
If nothing else what the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed is a need for many of us to learn to deal with reality in ways that are good for our health . While it’s understandable that a lot of people have felt fearful, disappointed or frustrated, the simple truth is there is very little we can do to change the circumstances we all find ourselves in.
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