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Business Coaching Sessions Go Mobile
In these especially difficult times, business owners are looking for any advantage that they can get. It is a poorly understood situation, but the typical business owner has to juggle so many problems at one time and has such a full agenda that they barely feel that they can function. A typical business owner has [...]
The 5 Steps to Go Through when you Receive A Complaint
I can’t be avoided, people make mistakes. Organisations are operated by people. Therefore, without any doubt, every business on any continent is going make a mistake at some point. How you handle mistakes is what’s going to set you apart from everyone else. Your business coach will say that you should deal with every single [...]
Career Coach Answers Top Resume Questions
As a career coach there are resume questions that I’m asked by nearly every client. If you are a job seeker you’ve probably struggled with these same issues. Below are answers to many of the most frequently asked resume questions.
Q: How many pages should my resume be?
A: It depends on your level of [...]
Stress & Self Esteem: Raising One by Lowering the Other
In our article about Exercise & Stress, we looked at the way these two factors form a self-reinforcing cycle that can work for us. With stress and self-esteem, however, the relationship is negative ? both in the technical sense of the words (i.e. as one increases, the other decreases, and vice versa), and in its [...]
Avoiding The Sheep Dip
It is a sad fact that many employees are still being subjected to the age old training ritual of "sheep dipping". This is a process by which employees are "refreshed", "cleansed" and "re-invigorated" by ensuring they attend set training courses or, perhaps, are placed on the ubiquitous "refresher" course. This refresher course is, of [...]
Terrible Meetings – Ten Ways to Spot Them!
Sometimes, better than giving advice about how to run things well, it can be useful to have a hit list to notice to help you identify when things are less than productive. Meetings can be hugely productive, especially if you keep a sharp eye out for these Ten things:-
No Agenda
When there is no agenda, there [...]
Exercise & Motivation, Part 2: Overcoming Inertia & Getting Started
In the first article in this series (http://tinyurl.com/8ztbo), we gave you an overview of the stages of change in Prochaska’s Transtheoretical model. The first three of these stages are all about getting started. They apply to anyone who’s not actually regularly exercising at the moment. If you were active in the past, but don’t [...]
Memories Didnt Happen
Have you ever experienced a traumatic event? I’m sure the answer to that question is an unequivocal yes as it appears to be embedded in the nature of the reality that we exist in.
So having said that, if I ask you to focus on a particular memory of a traumatic event that you may have [...]
The Best Time for Action? No Time Like the Present…
Too often we wait for the ‘right time’ or ‘the kids to grow up’ or the next vacation. But how long is that away. Often when I’m working with my clients, it’s about getting clear why they are putting change off. Almost always it’s the fear of the challenging consequences of making [...]
Procrastination and JDI!
In a management role procrastination can seriously hold back progress and demotivate individuals and teams who, full of innovation and drive to move forward, get frustrated and confused when action is held up.
There are a number of steps that will help the procrastinating manager.
Firstly, recognise it is a good and reasonable defence mechanism, which relates [...]
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