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Optimising Productivity - The Difficult Art of Stopping #leadershipdevelopment performance May 25, 2022

As the business environment gets more and more difficult optimising productivity is increasingly important.  You cannot afford to waste any...

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Is your assessment past its use by date? leadership performance Jul 21, 2021

How many of us have rummaged around in the back of the fridge, found some food slightly curled at the edges, looked at the “use by”...

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Sorry Mr Sinek ā€“ sometimes we just need a quick fix - 4 tips on how to survive in a virtual world performance Mar 10, 2021

The ability to research used to be limited to the few, now it sits at the end of our fingers.  The virus has made researchers of us all. ...

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Why Bullying is a Board Issue leadership performance Dec 03, 2020

When people talk about bullying, they tend to see it from the point of view of the individual.

Bullying for individuals is appalling.  It...

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Bullies, Risk-takers and Disruptors: Can you tell the difference? performance Nov 26, 2020

One of my co-founders at Defy Expectations, Pat Chapman-Pincher, has written powerfully and succinctly in the last fortnight about bullying and...

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Getting the couch out of coaching performance Oct 29, 2020

We are not sure exactly when psychology and psychotherapy started to dominate coaching, but they have been prevalent in mainstream approaches since...

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The future has happened leadership performance Oct 14, 2020

It’s becoming very clear now that there is no “new normal” just around the corner.  The situation we are in now is the...

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The questions you should be asking about meetings post lockdown performance Jun 03, 2020

A client said to me recently that lockdown had made her feel much more part of the senior team.  That sound like a very odd statement but...

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Bereavement in the workplace performance Apr 29, 2020

Death is an inevitable fact of life.  From our pet hamster to our nearest and dearest we have to deal with death.  Death is never easy;...

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Best Behaviours of High Performance performance Nov 25, 2019

As a high performing driven sales leader, I have consistently delivered results and created impact with teams who have deep desires to win and be...

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3 Steps you are missing from your sales transformation leadership performance Nov 04, 2019

I have had a number of meetings with senior leaders recently who are looking to "radically" transform their sales teams to improve their business...

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Finding creative gold in stillness performance Sep 28, 2017

Those of you who know me will know that I tend to be busy, I pride myself on getting things done, being productive and hitting those deadlines,...

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