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Sit down. Breathe. Write. Repeat...Be A 5 Year Old Again – I Dare You
A quick question to get to the heart of what’s going on. This was one of a few key questions I asked a group of CEOs and senior directors I worked with recently as we focused on communicating with influence. This question, as basic as it sounds, really helps people...
How Often Are You Up Close – And Personal?
There’s no substitute for the ‘LIVE’ or personalised version of You It’s easy to get lulled into this false sense of reality isn’t it? Instead of picking up the phone to speak to someone, you drop them an email or send them a message or a text. Instead of dropping...
Watch Your Pace When Speaking
It affects IF or HOW people listen to you. Pace, what do I mean by that? It’s about your rate and your speed of delivery. So many clients of mine race through their content, their ideas, their input and, the truth is, a lot of the time they’ll be tuned out by those...
Adjust Yourself To Where You Find Yourself
The new ‘normal’ is always shifting Here are 3 key lessons I’ve learned from adopting Jeffrey Hound, our newest rescue sighthound. The lessons cross over into our lives and, I believe, especially when you’re starting a new role or a job inside a new organisation. You...
How To Embrace The Challenge Of Change
Go with the flow of the opportunities. It’s one of my go-to books. Each year I read ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ by Ken Blanchard which reminds me how to recognise change and expect it. Not to sit like a rabbit in the headlights and hold my head saying things aren’t fair....
What’s Your “Unfair” Advantage (And Do You Even Know About It)?
Working with career women keen to raise their visibility and influence at work, this is one of the first places I start with them. "Let’s find your unfair advantage or your Secret Sauce” I say. I start with this question. “What is it about you or what has...
How & Why To Take A Chance On Yourself
Say “Yes” before you’re ready and then get ready... There are so many ways to say something and every way means something different to your listener as you say it. Imagine you’re in a meeting and someone asks if anyone is able to take on a new project or put some...
Waterskiing & Your Career
Stimulate your creative flow with something a bit different That expression “busy doing something else” is where your ideas and inspiration often comes from. It gives you the sense of being absorbed, concentrating, focused on something so other thoughts are put aside...
Take A Pause & Boost Your Presence
Less speed, more grace and ease Do you barrel from one thing to another at work? Do you find yourself finishing one meeting or phone call and then jumping straight into or onto the next? How about when you arrive at a meeting, do you like to get there early, settle...
Zip It And Assertively Wait
Masterful Inactivity Isn't Passive.... How to zip-it and give yourself breathing space This is a tricky one for so many of us. Wait. Pause. Think a bit. Choose if Money you’re going to act; to respond. To ‘Zip it’ is such a useful little phrase and it’s easy to...