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5th Key to Leadership Success: Build the Team
Can you think of a time when you were part of a team that you were really proud of and made you feel your best?
When I look back I have...
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4th Key to Leadership Success: Embrace Team Diversity
Many of you know that I work with the SDI tool as a way to help people understand the diversity of people, our inner drives,...
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3rd Key to Leadership Success: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
Some years ago I was working a company where a new senior leader had just started. Everyone was talking about him; what would he be like,...
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2nd Key to Leadership Success: Continuous Learning
The more you learn, the more you realise there is to learn. So, learn, learn and keep learning how to improve what you do and how you...
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1st Key to Leadership Success: Support & Empower your Team
As a leader the only way you really get things done, is through your people, by supporting and empowering them. As a new leader, you are...
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5 Keys to Leadership Success
When I was only 25 I found myself, for the 1st time, in the position of leader. I had applied for and got a Training Manager position in a...
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In Search for Quality of Life
In 1995 Dave and I moved to Slovenia for a better 'Quality of life'. By comparison with our lifestyle experiences in Manchester and...
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4 Steps to Achieve What you Want
Health, well-being, and fitness are something most of us are focused on today. For myself, all my life I have invested time and money on...
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Find out how you can hire for Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is a set of skills that help us better perceive, understand and manage emotions in ourselves and in others.
These...
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What really matters in measuring emotional intelligence?
A great misunderstanding when talking about emotional intelligence is that, similar to IQ, one gets a numerical score that tells you how...
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The Power of Diversity
I first came across SDI many years ago when working for a Pharmaceutical company in the UK. We had a team building session for all of us in...
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Creating a Strengths Based Organisation
In my work over the past few years, I am seeing the way of working change.
This change is driven by increased volumes of work,...
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Focus on People, not Generations
This is what you get by typing »managing generations in the workplace« in Google. If you take out the words »in the workplace« the...
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Ageing Population
The way of work is changing and with it the stability of work is decreasing. It used to be that when you started work many people would...
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Why might my organisation need a Learning Consultancy?
A Learning Consultancy focuses on an organisation's level of learning and development needs. It offers a complete service from...
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How would your organisation benefit from coaching?
One-to-one coaching focuses on the achievement of specific development goals for an individual. These are usually related to the...
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Understanding Influence
Do you feel that influencing or persuading others is a good skill to have or not?
Although sales and leading roles depend on influencing...
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The Magic of Rapport
Have you ever met someone and immediately felt good about that person?
You may not know exactly why; maybe the things you had in common,...
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How to Build Rapport
Although rapport can exist naturally between us, it’s an important skill in knowing how to intentionally build rapport when needed.
When...
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6 effective techniques for emotionally intelligent Covid-19 response
Are you starting to feel tired and stressed because of everything happening as a result of Covid-19 pandemic? If you are, you are not the...
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