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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.
Lessons from the Life of Carrie Baillee
Carrie Bailee's life is a testament to resilience, humor and unwavering strength. From overcoming abuse to battling cancer, her story inspires us to face adversity with grace and find purpose in every challenge.
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Building and Maintaining Your Mental Fitness
Ready to transform your life? Explore powerful strategies, expert advice, and actionable tips to boost your confidence, overcome challenges and achieve your goals. Your journey to a better you starts here!
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Strong Relationships Are Key to Your Team Achieving Its Full Potential
Strong teams are the backbone of successful organizations. This blog explores key strategies for building trust, fostering open communication and cultivating a culture of emotional intelligence to create high-performing and fulfilling team environments.
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Building Confidence: Tips to Elevate Your Self-Esteem
Many people struggle to see their own worth, often doubting their strengths and potential. As a coach, it’s disheartening to witness this, especially when their true value is so clear to me.
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Staying Focused in a Busy Job with Loads of Competing Priorities
In today’s dynamic work environment, it’s all too common to feel overwhelmed by an endless stream of tasks, each one competing for our attention and pulling us away from key priorities. The steady flow of emails, unplanned meetings and tight deadlines often make staying focused a daunting task—a challenge many of the leaders we work with frequently encounter.
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Cultivating Patience: Steps to Being a Calmer You
In this blog, we explore why patience is essential for personal growth and long-term success. Learn actionable steps to cultivate greater patience, including self-awareness, empathy, mindfulness and reframing challenges as opportunities.
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Why Visualization Is a Powerful Tool for Building Confidence and Enabling Success
Have you ever wondered how top performers prepare for success? As a martial artist, I discovered the transformative power of visualization—a simple yet powerful technique that builds confidence, sharpens focus, and primes the mind for action. Let’s dive into how this tool can influence your emotions, decisions and outcomes.
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Enabling Beliefs
Take a moment to reflect on how the beliefs you hold shape the choices you make in life, including at work. Do your beliefs about your abilities motivate you to take on new challenges, or do they hold you back? How often do limiting beliefs cause you to hesitate, preventing you from taking action or speaking up with confidence?
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Knowing When to Surrender
Take a moment to reflect on how many battles you’re currently fighting—whether with yourself, family members or colleagues. By "fight," I mean any state of struggle where you’re resisting or trying to overcome, eliminate or prevent your circumstances.
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Motivation Myth
Motivation can often feel elusive, but it’s not always the spark we think it is. Discover how momentum and simple strategies can help you push past procrastination and take action.
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No Regrets: Living Life Like There Are Few Tomorrows
Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse, spent years in palliative care, supporting patients during their final 12 weeks of life. Through this deeply personal work, she captured their profound end-of-life reflections in a blog that gained widespread attention. This ultimately inspired her bestselling book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing.
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Why It's OK to Talk About Not Being OK
Diagnosing mental health challenges often comes with a heavy emotional burden, and for me, that burden was embarrassment. The stigma surrounding mental illness can make it hard to seek help, but it’s time to change that narrative.
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Avoiding Burnout When You're Connected 24/7
When was the last time you spent a day completely disconnected from technology? How often do you check emails outside of work hours? Is your attention constantly grabbed by apps that notify you of everything going on in your world, as it happens?
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Giving Yourself the Best Chance of Success Each Day
Success is not a stroke of luck—it’s the result of consistent effort and the choices you make every single day. While it's easy to focus on the end goal, true success lies in the small, deliberate actions you take along the way. Every day is an opportunity to set clear intentions, prioritize what matters and take meaningful steps toward your bigger dreams.
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Take the Pain Early
Sometimes, discomfort is necessary for progress. Whether it’s a tough conversation or a difficult decision, postponing challenges only makes them harder. I’ve learned that facing the pain early—whether it’s as simple as eating unwanted food or addressing workplace issues—leads to quicker resolution and better outcomes. As a leader, confronting issues head-on is essential for the success of your team.
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Choosing Our Attitude
Our attitude shapes our experiences, even in frustrating situations. Recently, while facing long security queues at Sydney airport, I chose to stay calm and accept the situation, rather than get frustrated like some others around me. This reminded me of the power we all have to control our reactions and make challenging moments more manageable.
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Growing Your Emotional Intelligence
How emotionally intelligent are you? Most of us may believe we're self-aware, but research shows that only a small fraction truly are. To enhance our emotional intelligence, honest feedback from others is crucial—yet it can be difficult to embrace.
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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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Just Deal with It Already!
Avoiding tough problems only makes them worse—find out how facing challenges head-on can save your time, energy, and success. Discover powerful tips for overcoming hesitation and taking control of your toughest situations today!
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Are You Biting Off More Than You Can Chew?
Learn how to set boundaries, prioritize what truly matters and stop spreading yourself too thin. Discover practical tips to help you thrive without burning out!
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Dealing with Reality
Discover how shifting your mindset and managing your energy can transform your experience, even in uncertain times.
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