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The 7 Key Characteristics to Become Mentally Strong
in Career, Coaching, Communication, Mental Health, Mindset, Peak Performance, Productivity, Strategy, Success / / 0 commentsRead moreOver the last couple of weeks, we’ve talked about resilience and mental toughness and discovered the difference between the two. We’ve also looked at how to lead a team which is suffering from stress and trauma. It’s clear that there’s a lot of responsibility on the leader’s shoulders to hold themselves together and get their teams through this pandemic era. If
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Imposter syndrome: It’s not about you.
Read more“I have written 11 books but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.” One of our most famous writers said that: Pulitzer Prize winner, Maya Angelou. It’s hard to understand but many of the world’s most successful people feel like imposters. To us
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How empathy and trust underpin leadership conversations.
Read moreA strong and successful team needs effective leadership to guide it forwards. To be effective, a leader needs to be more than someone with the technical or job-oriented skill set. Leaders need a strong connection based on compassion, trust, and empathy. Successful leadership is personal. There is a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King that is even more applicable today
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How to master the one essential rule of feedback.
Read moreBrene Brown tweeted “There is no mastery without feedback. But it’s hard…My mantra for receiving feedback: Be brave. Listen. You can take what’s helpful and leave the rest. My mantra for giving feedback: Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.” Today I want to focus on the art of giving feedback because I think we’ve built so many rules around it
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Career conversations: You don’t own your team.
Read moreOrganisations are slowly realising that employees don’t “belong” to them; or ultimately, even the organisation. They recognise the approach doesn’t create the most productive use of an employee’s skill set or experience or bring out their best. The truth is that team members are only on loan to you. Your role as leader is to springboard your team into their
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How to improve your resilience and bounce back from challenges
in Career, Coaching, Executive, Leadership, Mental Health, Peak Performance, Productivity, Small Business, Strategy, Success, Team / / 0 commentsRead moreThere has been a lot of talk, especially in recent times, about how leaders are managing change and becoming change agents, but very little attention has been paid to the need for resilience. In a world and workplace that is in a constant state of flux, our leaders are expected to be the one group in the organisation that is exempt
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Building resilience: tools to thrive, not just survive
Read more“The way we’re working isn’t working”. That’s true and it’s also the title of a book by a man I greatly respect, Tony Schwartz of The Energy Project. For a long time now, people have been complaining that they are being expected to do more in less time and with fewer resources. It’s no wonder people are stressed. Then add
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Resilience and Mental toughness – is there a difference?
in Career, Mental Health, Mindset, Peak Performance, Productivity, Small Business, Strategy, Success, Team, Teams / / 0 commentsRead more2021 hasn’t started off as smoothly as we may have liked. COVID-19, lockdowns, travel restrictions and people still working from home… It has been a challenging year already. This month I want to focus on resilience and mental toughness, and how we can develop and use those skills to support ourselves and our teams through these tough times. These are
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Managing in Stressful times: The Aftermath of COVID-19
in Career, Leadership, Mental Health, Mindset, Peak Performance, Productivity, Success, Team, Teams / / 0 commentsRead moreIf you’re struggling to find a way of working with your team post-COVID, don’t be hard on yourself. Many leaders are feeling helpless and lacking confidence right now. The pandemic has taken a serious toll on our mental, physical and emotional health. Give yourself credit for understanding how your team members are feeling. What’s really happening. A US survey by
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How to keep your talent pipeline full and with high performers
in Career, Communication, Leadership, Networks, Peak Performance, Productivity, Strategy, Success, Team, Teams, Training / / 0 commentsRead moreDid you know that according to a survey by Glassdoor, globally 84% of employees would leave their current job, even without any real increase in pay, just to work at a company with a strong brand and reputation. People are our greatest resource so we know this is a something that needs to be addressed. “With factors such as compensation
