Although it’s one of the important steps in the planning process, creating an effective strategy is a lot easier than you might think. We show you how the answers to five interlinked questions will help you build one. Let’s look at where strategy sits in the planning...
Great leadership is not about having all the answers but about asking the right questions. Here we give you six key questions to ask yourself so you can become more effective as a leader. Leadership skills can be learned but you will probably have to rethink your...
Fight, flight or freeze? This article looks at what you need to know about your brain to get you through a crisis. Faced with a crisis at work do you fight it out, freeze, or run in the opposite direction? If you want to be more in control, you need to understand...
We don’t believe you can pretend to be what you’re not; this is a fundamental principle when we’re coaching anyone to be a better leader. But recent research suggests you can change the way you feel by altering your body language. Can you really ‘fake it till you make...
Will the people you work with stab you in the back? If you can’t trust them, it’s your problem not theirs. Check out this article to see how you can deal with people you don’t trust. Are your colleagues lying to you? Do you trust them? We all want to work in a place...
Integrity is more than honesty. A leader has integrity when there is no gap between intent and behaviour and is the same - inside and out. We show you what integrity in leadership looks like in practice. Integrity is defined as the ‘Adherence to moral and ethical...
As human beings, we are hard wired to notice and give more focus to negative rather than positive things. Here we give you seven ways of challenging your negative thinking to help boost your performance. Creating high performance always sounds like a good idea. As we...
In your world of work, ‘hard skills’ are technical procedures related to your core business. Examples include the latest law, rules and regulations in your area of expertise, or industry. Ironically enough, these ‘hard’ skills are typically easy to observe, quantify...
It’s easy to assume that being a manager means making money and hitting targets – there’s no time for taking care of your staff and spending time with your team. Well we don’t agree – and here are the only four skills you really need… Do you ever question the...
It might seem like an anomaly that sales staff don't want to make new business calls. But we've found that it's a key issue that comes up with client-facing service providers. They will do almost anything but pick up the phone to potential new clients. We look at the...
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Find fresh ideas and approaches to resolve your business issues, make a noticeable difference in your performance, and achieve long-term goals.