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When it comes to Leadership and people thriving at work, there is a lot we are passionate about. Check out our blog each month for the latest ponderings, insights and ideas from Karen Gately.
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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:
- Discover how to build trust, create a healthy workplace culture, and keep your employees engaged.
- 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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Why visualization is a powerful tool for building confidence and enabling success
As a Martial Artist one of tools we used to build confidence and courage, as well as ready ourselves for competing was visualization. Putting it simply, visualization works because of its ability to tap into our brain's intricate networks, priming it for success and influencing our emotions, decisions, and actions.
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Making Remote Working Work
Remote work has now found its firm footing in the business world. As a manager, optimizing the productivity, communication, and well-being of remote teams can feel like a big challenge. However, with the right strategies in place, it's possible to create a thriving remote work environment. Here are ten steps you can take to make remote working work well for your team.
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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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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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No regrets: living life like there are few tomorrows
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, looking after patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded her patient’s dying epiphanies in her blog, which thanks to the attention it received led to the release of her book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing.
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6 steps to harnessing discretionary effort
So many of the leaders I work with are frustrated by failed attempts to lift the energy and contribution of their team. People plodding along doing no more than they absolutely must is all too familiar and a common challenge across the diverse range of industries we work with.
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Why thank you matters more than money
How do you feel when someone says thank you? Whether it be for our efforts, or achievements, most people appreciate being told they are appreciated. Assuming sincerity in its delivery, a simple ‘thank you’ can go a long way to making people feel valued and respected.
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Why it’s OK to talk about not being OK
The first time I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety the strongest emotion I felt was embarrassment. When my husband shared ‘the news’ with another family member I was devastated, convinced what would follow was unwanted pity and ultimately loss of respect from people I care about.
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Giving yourself the best chance of success each day
Success doesn’t come easily. No matter much it might seem like some people have it lucky and seem to achieve everything they want to, the simple reality is everyone needs to do the work needed to land in the places that they want to.
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Take the pain early
Have you ever avoided change because it feels too hard to go through the pain inherent in making it happen?
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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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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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Leveraging Executive Assistants well
This week the Corporate Dojo team and I are very excited to be launching our freshly minted 'The Influential EA of the future program. Among the most common things I work to support CEOs and business owners to achieve, is creating the capacity and mindsets they need to focus on doing their own job. All too often the leaders I work with at all levels of an organisation’s hierarchy are operating at one or two levels beneath where their focus needs to be.
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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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