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Handling objections without sounding pushy
The ability to elegantly handle objections is a key success strategy in the workplace. It is not easy to do though as the objections are often about things we care about – either at work or personally. Because we care…
Are you wasting time without even knowing it?
Time sometimes really does seem to slip away? We lose time often not because we are busy doing something important, but because our mind is stuck in it’s naughty bad habits. If you can identify your habitual time wasters and…
Steps for a successful strategy day
Is is that time of year again? Time to organise the team away day or strategy day. To be successful Strategy Days need to generate ideas, be done in an environment that stimulates freedom of thought and involve the right…
Are competing priorities impacting your health?
Everyone can recognise that familiar tug of war inside us; go out or stay in and catch up on work, make a fresh dinner for the kids or finish catching up on e mails; work late or go to the…
Do you need to upgrade your negotiation skills?
Negotiating is something we do on a daily basis – even if it’s who is stacking the dishwasher. It is a skill a lot of people find difficult and often intimidating though, particularly in the workplace where the stakes can…
Slow down to speed up
Can you get things done better and faster by actually slowing down? Speed has many benefits but also some drawbacks in that speedy decisions can be less thought through and have unintended consequences that can take you by surprise, wasting…
How to be both direct and polite
Do you find it hard to say no? The problem many people have with saying no is that they don’t want to offend or upset people, or they are afraid it will damage the relationship in some way. Here are…
Why do you get so distracted from things you know are important?
It’s so frustrating, you know something is important but you constantly seem to end up doing something else. The reason for our distracting habits comes down to our habitual thinking habits which can sabotage us without us knowing. Here are…
Future Proof your Career
Successful people think long term about their career and plan accordingly. This is not being stuck in a restrictive path there is no going back from, but to have a strategy for progression and a general direction to aim for….
The art of achieving a good work life balance
It’s tough when you feel pulled in different directions, unable to spend time doing the things you want to. Building a good work life balance is a very personal thing because we are all different – to some people sitting…
Our Most Popular Blogs
Help! My team are obsessed with getting promoted
A common challenge leaders experience is having an ambitious team who focus on promotion at every opportunity. For many leaders in this situation, 1:1s can become daunting…
What next for my career? Advice for technical leaders
For technical leaders, career development often feels like a leap into the unknown: moving from technical mastery to the realm of leadership and management. But…
Q&A with Jon Cooper: Performance coach to paralympic gold medallist Aaron Phipps – Part 1
When we wrote our latest book ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’ we spoke to many inspiring elite sportspeople to gain their insight on what goes into their…