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How to boost your team’s confidence
Confident employees have higher self-esteem, are more productive, cope better with change and achieve more aspirational goals. How can you encourage your team to think more confidently? Confidence is a crucial building block of personal and professional...
Managers: Do you recognise the signs of burnout?
Don’t wait for a sickness note or resignation for proof of burnout. Here’s some red flags to look out for and ways to prevent it. What is burnout? Burnout is defined as a ‘state of vital exhaustion’. How do you know if you are...
Are you struggling to concentrate
Why is your brain constantly frazzled? Can you remember the last time you were able to knuckle down to some deep, productive work? Or does your brain feel permanently frazzled as you toggle from one task to another, struggling to concentrate? Find your Flow state...
How to ditch Imposter Syndrome and Self Doubt
You were born for this! Enjoy your success, you deserve it.Imposter Syndrome, when we feel that we aren't good enough, is a common negative thinking pattern that holds many of us back in our careers. Here's how to ditch self-doubt and enjoy your success. Our own...
How to build a resilient team in testing times
Deal with the elephant in the room, lead from the front, have some fun, distract with good news, create some heroes: ideas for managers to keep their teams on track. Twelve years ago, a grumpy organisational psychology professor told my class that he would...
Three traps new managers fall into and how to avoid them
Successful individual contributors can derail when they manage other people. Here's how to make sure that doesn't happen to your career: Congratulations, you’ve hit your targets, your influencing skills have been recognised and you have been rewarded with your own...
No Messing Goal Setting
Escalate your career next year: no messing goal setting Sneak an hour out of your busy schedule this side of Christmas to set your goals for 2019. You'll feel much more in control and ready for your break if you know you can hit the ground running when you return to...
Have you got five minutes? Saying NO to drive-back distractors and corridor kidnappers
Have you got 5 minutes? How often are you asked that? But it’s never just 5 minutes, it’s at least double that
How Meetings Waste your Money
Being in back to back meetings is nothing to be proud of. Nor is sitting in an irrelevant meeting that does nothing to achieve your personal priorities. You wouldn’t waste your money or any other asset like this – so why waste your precious talent?
Five Positive Ways to say No
Do you already feel overwhelmed, with too much work to do and not enough time to do it in? How do you cope when you are asked to do even MORE? The first step is to weigh up the value of the extra work. Is it career-enhancing: giving you extra skills, networks or...
Why ‘good girls’ don’t get promoted
Do you remember that fairy tale we were told when we were kids, about helpful little elves that snuck into your house when everyone was asleep, did all the chores, laid the fire, made the breakfast and then flew away before anyone woke up and saw them? That’s what...
Setting up your consultancy or freelance business: How to charge for what you are worth
Setting up your consultancy practice or decided to go freelance? Congratulations! Don’t sell your time; sell your value.