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Coping with redundancy, changing jobs or starting a business is stressful. Alongside ‘the-end-of-the-familiar’ is a whole lot of new stuff too. Coping with change can be difficult even for us who’s job it is to help others cope. Evaluating from your audience, customer or potential client perspective can be overlooked all too easily. How to cope with read more of Change, practice makes perfect? Trust, whether implicit or explicit is often hard earned. Break the trust promise and it’s unlikely it can ever be restored. The fast food restaurant where service is slow, the convenient on-line store which ships the incorrect product, then insists you pay for postage to rectify ‘their’ mistake. When convenience is the unique selling point (U.S.P.) repairing the read more of A matter of trust The end of year is traditionally a time to reflect. To look back at what has gone before, review what happened and reflect on our experiences. This year it coincides with the end of a decade. Welcoming the year 2000 seems a very long time ago. So much has happened in my world, I decided to read more of End of year reflection There are compelling similarities between high achievers whether their success is based in the business world or in the sporting arena. The experiences and opportunities afforded to top talent is often a double-edged- sword. The pressures and expectations can lead to crippling self doubt; the path to the top is not easy, ever. If you think it read more of Mind Games Much of our work in recent months has been helping business leaders make sense of the organisational fallout resulting from the so-called credit crunch. Typically, this means implementing change that results in laying staff off. On reflection, if the work you are tasked with, does not fit with your own values, no amount of coaching, counseling read more of Moral compass, where does yours point? It’s been said “there is no such thing as bad publicity” how then would you feel if your brand was directly associated with, today at least, one of the most publicised people on the planet. The person found guilty of planting a bomb which took the lives of 270 people over Lockerbie in Scotland, was photographed read more of Unwanted publicity In a week which sees Dragons Den return to our TV screens we also say good bye to Gerry Robinson and his ‘Big Decision.’ The three part series reflects a much more realistic picture of business in the UK it seems most of the problems affecting the six featured businesses were caused by ‘people issues,’ in read more of Business & Enterprise on TV Advancement, development and progress are something we human beings are programmed to achieve. Positive role-models play a significant role in how we shape our collective future. The theory being: what others see they will either replicate or choose to ignore. Whether it is business, sport of life in general, adults have a choice; demonstrate behaviour to read more of One in the eye for rugby! Imagine what life would be like if… * You could feel good about yourself all of the time; read more of Imagine! |
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