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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.
How to quit procrastinating and get your real work done
Procrastination is an inherited trait. But you can beat it!
Why good managers make you take a break
D-Day Veteran Bryson William Verdun Hayes, known as Verdun, shows us how to have fun - he's the oldest British skydiver at 101 years and 38 days. He broke the record by completing a tandem skydive with three generations of his family in Devon in May 2017 in a...
One question that stops you wasting hours in meetings
Are you sick of wasting precious time in pointless, long, unplanned, badly facilitated, waffling, unstructured, distracted, ego-filled, hi-jacked, delayed and all round screamingly frustrating meetings? People constantly complain to me about the amount of time they...
Ageism: Are older candidates really discriminated against?
A fed-up 50-something Finance Director wrote to me recently, saying that she keeps getting turned down for new roles 'because of her age'. I asked her what evidence she had that her age is the reason for the rejection and if the problem possibly lay elsewhere....with...
Smack the phoney: how to beat imposter syndrome
I still doubt myself every single day. What people believe is my self-confidence is actually my reaction to fear.”—Will Smith All of us are susceptible to negative thoughts like this at some point in our careers. They are like giant banana skins waiting to trip us up....
How to retain your millennials
I listen to employers moan about their youngest workers, but what’s their side of the story? We talk a lot about leadership in organisations, but we’ve forgotten how to manage. Millennials leave organisations because (unlike their older colleagues) they don’t...
Personal Effectiveness Workshop – How to get more done in a day than you do now in a week
I’m an Executive Coach and help my clients to understand exactly what their career goals are and the steps they need to take in order to achieve them. The next stage of the process is to ensure that their most precious asset, their time, is used effectively in...