Blog tag: focus
What’s the best response to give when someone asks for your time?
Remember that when you are communicating to other people about your time you are basically training them in how to treat you. We all have natural habits in how we respond to requests for our time. Let’s look at ways in which you can increase your choices of response to…
Banish Time Management Forever
Time is a finite resource. We all have the same amount of time each day, each week and each month. How we use that time is dependent on what each of us believes is important and how we think about time. Time Management is a myth. The sad fact is…
Small changes in your thinking that make a BIG difference
When people come on our certification courses in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) they are always blown away by the power of the interventions to change behaviours, how we feel and how we behave. It’s easy to love the big powerful stuff, but the small changes we make in our thinking…
Why people don’t listen to you
It’s a frustrating situation. You’re sharing advice or giving instructions and the other person just isn’t listening. Why does this happen? How can you engage others, so they really want to listen? Here are the top tips from our panel: Avoid Lecturing says Eleanor Shakiba If you sound like a ‘lecturing parent’…
Turn sloppy thinking into strategic thinking
You’ve been told you need to think more ‘strategically’. But what does this really mean and can you do it? A strategy is simply a series of tasks, outputs or actions in the service of achieving a particular outcome. Not hard right? So how come so many of us struggle…
Simple self hypnosis you can do every day
Hypnosis has great health benefits and in a recent New Scientist feature is cited as being more effective than placebo when working with health issues. When you make it a part of your life it can be a great way to de-stress, allow you to relax as well as solve…
Build your Team’s Problem Solving Skills
There are three main skill sets that ensure success in business: people skills, technology skills and problem-solving skills.Problem-solving is a high level thinking skill. It involves accurately assessing an issue, identifying potential solutions and choosing the most effective solutions to implement. Building the problem solving skills of your team benefits…