Steps to effective listening
Category: Blog | Leadership
One of the things I have to do as a coach/leader is to be a great listener. Sometimes effective listening can be a challenge because, like most people, I can fall into the trap of thinking about my response and how I would like to help the individual with whom I am communicating. One of…
Tags: | Self Leadership
5 Habits That Will Keep You From Burning Out
Category: Blog | Leadership
As humans are easily distracted. Smartphones, gossip, social media, endless email, mindless web browsing, too much TV, video games, etc. When done in excess, these activities drain you of energy, productivity and ultimately, fulfilment. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are five ways to create an environment for greater success and happiness: Avoid…
Tags: | Personal Development, Self Leadership
How to Strengthen Your Confidence
Category: Leadership
There’s an easy test you can take that will tell you whether your venture or project will fail. It’s very simple. All you have to do is ask yourself whether you believe you can do it. If there’s any hesitation in your answer, it’s unlikely you’ll make it. Occasionally questioning your strategy is fine, but…
Tags: | Self Leadership
How to Boost Your Self-Confidence
Category: Leadership
Nobody is born with limitless self-confidence. If someone seems to have incredible self-confidence, it’s because they have worked on building it for years. Self-confidence is something that you learn to build up because the challenging world of business, and life in general, can deflate it. Here are 5 things you can do to build up…
Tags: | Self Leadership
How High Growth Companies Make Learning a Habit
Category: Leadership
Learning is embedded into the culture of all high growth companies. They are able to make consistent progress because learning is a habit for individuals within these organisations. Habits are freeing because they save us from the difficult, energy sapping business of making decisions and exercising our self-control. With about 40% of everyday life shaped…
Tags: | discipline, Self Leadership
Defining your rules of success
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership
Back in my early corporate days, the office I worked in had notice board. On that board generally important information was communicated. One day a member of the team, as a joke, put a copy of Murphy’s Law on it (“If anything can go wrong it will”). That depressing quote stared out at us as…
Tags: | leadership, mindset, Self Leadership
How to build your confidence…..
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership
As leaders grow in high growth organisations very often their confidence is challenged, perhaps not surprisingly as they step outside their comfort zones. Building true confidence does take time, but below are five secrets that will rapidly start this process 1. Stop comparing yourself to others. The worst thing you can do is compare yourself…
Tags: | management, Self Leadership
Time to think like a six year old……
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership
When’s the last time you truly thought like a six year old? In other words, you had thoughts like: “I’m going to be an astronaut one day” or “When I grow up I’m going to be the prime minister.” As children, we tend to believe that we truly can do anything we want. However, as…
Tags: | leadership, personal, Self Leadership
Questions to ask yourself daily
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership
Whilst we all have a different definition of success, the one thing all successful people are aligned on is a drive to be better than the day before. Whether you’re looking for a new client, motivating a team, or launching a new product, forward momentum is key. In the ‘busyness’ of life, we can often…
Tags: | leadership, mindset, Self Leadership
Are you an authentic leader?
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership
Too often, leadership gets reduced to mere persuasion. While this is important, real leadership – authentic leadership – is much more. Below are the five characteristics of effective leaders. These mark those who leave a lasting legacy. 1. Authentic leaders possess insight. Sometimes we think of this as vision. While this is important, leaders need…
Tags: | Self Leadership
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