More and more I hear of clients that dread Monday mornings, that feel pressurised and bullied. What they describe is not a work hard environment, or a competitive industry but a downright sick office. Some of these clients have worked there for years and the culture has gradually slipped into a bad place without …
You dread Mondays. All day Sunday you feel an ever-growing tightening in your stomach, which continues all through Sunday night as you can’t sleep until 3 minutes before your alarm clock goes off and then you can’t wake up. Did you think bad career, bad health? You spend all day stressed, or even …
“You get what you ask for, and if you don’t ask for anything you get nothing, “ was one of those sayings that rang around my head as a child. Despite my mum not being one of my top role models there is a grain of truth in this. But what if you keep asking …
Fed up doing all the work and someone else getting all the credit? You get asked to do the things no-one else will do, but are totally overlooked for the good stuff? Passed over for projects and promotions? Want to know why? It is because you are not asking. If you don’t ask you don’t …
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Happy New Year!!!! How is it going? Glad to be back at work? This year, like many of you, I have never been so happy to see the back of a year. It has been a strange year with the triple crown of yuk; Brexit, Corona and Trump. At least this …
So, you have been asked to say a few words at a team meeting. Sounds simple, until you begin to think about what those few words might be. What do I say? If you are lucky you will have been given a topic, or at the very least a theme. Even then you have to …
Do you ever get the feeling something is a little off? You do not know why or how but you are just a little unsure? It could be you just know your child is not going to spend the night at their friend Alby’s or your boss does have a little more information than …
Have you ever wondered why some people stand in front of the audience and suddenly everyone listens? Do you think that could never be you? Wrong. It is easy to adopt an air of authority as easy as putting on a cape. It is all in the way you move…and here are 5 tips to …
When you have to speak whether in a team meeting or on a larger scale the biggest factor that separates those that speak with impact and can see tangible results for their efforts from those that don’t is the ability to have a two way relationship with the audience. The biggest tool in nurturing this …
You know you have to speak to get your career moving in the right direction, but whether it is a presentation in front of a large audience, or something you want to say in the team meeting you want to make it count. You need to do this by always having beautiful beginnings. You plan …