...achieving the best in people for profitable success
...achieving the best in people for profitable success
“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together” Jesse Jackson. David Cameron has an opportunity to show true leadership in changing the face of British politics and bringing different parties together for the greater good of the nation. His speech just now, I feel, offered real hope […]
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We were very privileged to provide a whole team training day for a furniture company, which was entitled ‘Working with Pride’. This firm certainly could be proud, having designed and made beautiful bespoke furniture for Buckingham Palace and Dover Castle. In researching the topic, I found an interesting aspect about pride. Pride appears to have
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Delegates at my recent workshop asked two key questions. How do I re-find my confidence? Confident people had lost faith in themselves after being on maternity leave, an abusive conflict situation, and receiving bad feedback. Are we actually born with confidence or is it something that we learn? Remembering the assured way my son demanded
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A sign seen in a Paris hotel elevator said Please leave your values at the front desk How easily we can change the meaning of a message by a small misinterpretation. This can happen even in our own language. In terms of leadership, there is a more serious aspect to consider. Do you leave your
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Some trainers use actors to provide role plays. We like to give participants hands on experience. The delegates on our Effective Communication workshop on February 23rd provided two fascinating scenarios of how to deal with difficult behaviours. The key learning for them was: Do more of Avoid Plan and prepare before going into the situation
What do Genghis Khan, Lawrence of Arabia, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Allan Leighton and Sir Richard Branson have in common? They were/are all successful leaders, but with very different leadership styles. They all had a strong determination to deliver. They have all had impact in their time. A recent interim report by the Chartered
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Tuesday 9th March 6.30 – 8 pm at The Centre for Health & Wellbeing, Weymouth Rosie Barfoot is giving a short workshop to help you build your confidence. This is a charity event. Lack of self-esteem, negative thinking, or fear of change often prevent people from trying to achieve their dream, or even accepting that
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In the ‘spirit’ of New Year’s Eve, you may have made some resolutions, or you may have agreed goals at your appraisal. In the cold light of reality, how long will you keep them up? Here are 8 tips to maintain your motivation to succeed. Start with the end in sight Set yourself a SMARTA
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On Friday 11th December, we were very honored to be part of the Dorset Business Awards event in Poole. Training for Results was a finalist in the Dorset County Council 2012 Legacy Award. Congratulations to the worthy winners Hive Beach Cafe. It was our first event of this kind, and it was fantastic to hear
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You wouldn’t think of asking your team to do the job without providing them with the best tools for the task. The ‘tools’ needed to manage people are very different to those needed to do the job. For some reason, people skills are called the soft skills, and yet they can be extremely hard to
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Some fourteen years ago, I was given a business card designed as a tin can with the words, Success Comes In Cans, Not Cannots. This was from Nigel Botterill of N5, who is still successful. I have kept it ever since and used it as the theme for the Rural Dorset Business meeting in Sherborne
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On the recent ‘Dealing with Difficult People’ course we ran, there was a great aha moment. Quite early on in the day, one delegate realised she actually is the ‘difficult’ person. This is something that is not always easy to accept. I remember the first time I ran this course; I made the mistake of
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Award your managers with the essential skill to increase performance. The Institute of Leadership and Management Level 3 Award in Workplace Coaching for Team Leaders and First Line Managers (takes nearly as long to say as to deliver) provides a great way to increase your team’s skills and gain self development for your managers. A
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If you have done the ‘graveyard’ slot, you will know it is rarely a good time for creativity. Last Wednesday in Oxford, I was on after lunch at a seminar for fifteen women. The topic was creative thinking! They needed to be energised and find their child like state. ‘Genius is the ability to retrieve
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One of the key ways to avoid stress I have decided is to sit on your hands. If you get the tendency to raise your hand to volunteer – don’t!. They say you should ask a busy person if you want a job done. Why is that? Don’t they have enough to do? Last year,
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