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self belief

It’s all well and good telling your employer that you have an O’level in computer studies, but that doesn’t hold much water if you learnt on a Sinclair Spectrum back in 1986.

How to get your ducks in a row

by Paul on 5 April 2011 · 0 comments

Often, you will need to set out to achieve a goal without any clear idea of how it will be done.

“Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” Dr Seuss

Christmas Party in the 100 Acre Wood

by Jo Dawson on 18 November 2010 · 0 comments

Given the opportunity to understand how his oftentimes painstaking and pedantic ways affect his colleagues, and then given the tools and encouragement to make positive changes, Eeyore could be perceived very differently. With a different communication style alone, his valuable contributions to the team would be recognised as beneficial and potentially indispensible.

Advice from a samurai

by Paul on 14 July 2010 · 0 comments

The next morning, the tea master did as he had been
advised, and waited. The soldier stopped and stared…
and then bowed and apologised and walked away.
How can this help you with your management?

Your reputation for confidence

by Paul on 7 July 2010 · 0 comments

Remember, invisible miracles don’t impress anybody.
Others think of you in terms of what they know or
notice about you.

‘I will’ vs. ‘I will try’

by Paul on 17 March 2010 · 0 comments

‘I will do it…’ vs. ‘I will try to do it…’
Which one do you prefer to hear?

How to develop an extra sense

by Vandy on 18 February 2010 · 0 comments

Dave Hall, CEO of HFL Sports Science, reflects on his experience of the Highlands Ability Battery and the ‘Aha!’ moment it unveiled: The HAB experience is an intense one – challenging the complete set of faculties to expose natural tendencies within operational, interpersonal and management styles.  Familiar already with many (more simplistic) psychometric testing regimes [...]

The idea that starts everything

by Paul on 9 February 2010 · 1 comment

As a manager, notice the ideas from your team. Ideas that grow become a vision for the future. If you value your future, then make sure it is full of your ideas.

Teux Deux, or not Teux Deux…?

by Vandy on 8 February 2010 · 0 comments

We’ve all got lists of things to do that could go off the page, and the next, and possibly the next.