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Put your own mask on first

If you’ve travelled through the clouds, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the safety instructions in the event of oxygen masks making an appearance mid-flight.

It’s an important metaphor for those who tend to run around taking care of everything and focusing on everyone else other than themselves.

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Posted on Thu, July 14, 2016 in Coaching General Leadership Personal Development

Follow your bliss - do what you really love, otherwise what’s the point?

If the aspiration is to follow your bliss, the inference of course is that you actually know what ‘your bliss’ is. So let’s imagine that you do have an idea about what you’d really like to do with your life, and that it’s not what you’re doing now.

So the obvious question is ‘why are you still doing what you do

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Posted on Thu, June 02, 2016 in Coaching General Leadership Personal Development

How to perform better under pressure

Stress. It can make us less responsive, less creative, and less effective. Often stress is referred to as mental or emotional pressure coupled with the psychological effects as a result, however it’s important to realise that in fact it’s a reaction between the mind and body and therefore, how we feel, think and physically behave are all significant factors.

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Posted on Thu, April 28, 2016 in Coaching General Leadership Personal Development

Seek first to understand…

Listening. One of the most important communication skills we can utilise. However, while the majority of us learn to read and write from an early age, the ability to listen – and by that I mean truly understanding another human being - is something many of us have received little guidance in mastering.  

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Posted on Thu, March 24, 2016 in Coaching General Leadership Personal Development

The power of pause

During one of the workshops I regularly facilitate, participants take part in a storytelling exercise where I ask each individual to speak for one minute. We’re very strict on timing - one minute exactly – and they can choose from three different topics. And the point is…?  Well, we use the exercise to feed back to each other and discuss/explore the different things people find compelling.

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Posted on Fri, August 14, 2015 in Coaching General Personal Development

Does practice make perfect?

Now here’s a question to start a healthy debate. As a statement, it’s something some of us may remember hearing growing up as we struggled to balance on that scooter or splashed frantically to stop ourselves from sinking to the bottom of the pool.  Indeed, many would argue that yes, practice does make perfect. 

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Posted on Thu, July 16, 2015 in Coaching General Personal Development

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