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Time to Read: 38 Seconds Secret Banta Let’s all play Secret Banta this year. Lots of work teams are having fun with secret Santa at this time of year. We’ve another way to add good cheer and bring a warm feeling to everyone’s hearts. Everyone writes their name on an envelope. Each person secretly selects an…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: When you’re bored in a meeting Top 10 Rules for Meeting Etiquette Always wait for late-comers before you start the meeting – it would be rude not to. Professional meeting attenders will need to be reminded what meeting they are in. Make sure that all actions have more than one name –…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Between 2 and 3 Minutes A statistic I have been quoting that is completely wrong… For the last few years, with great drama, excitement and a definition of ‘miracle’ thrown in, I have been sharing with people around the world the very unlikely chance of them being born: 1 in 400 trillion times…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: A good few thousand years A journey in China Last month I had the honour, privilege and excitement to be invited to China, by the leaders of the Hua Tao project – www.huataoecovillage.com Simon Jones (Chime Communications and adviser on Naked Leader PR) and I visited The Forbidden Kingdom (wow), drank Chinese…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 92 seconds How to use your mind to control your body Rosalind and I have been married for over 19 years and for the last year I have had a real problem with our marriage. My wedding ring had become too tight – or as my daughter says I have “got too…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Longer than 1 minute, shorter than 90 seconds People will live up, or down, to the standard you expect from them I had a surreal moment at my London Business Forum event in London recently when I was presenting on ‘NLP Stripped Bare’ During 90 minutes I shared 21 areas of NLP,…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Around the 3 minute mark Key How-Tos from Naked Leader Conference 2015 On 15 October I chaired our annual flagship leadership conference. It was a complete sell-out with over 100 leaders from 40+ different organisations attending and speaking. These are the one line calls to action – most powerful how-tos – that…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Under 54 seconds to read – longer to decide The Choice of Opposites Neither of them are ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ by the way – you decide which help move you closer to you outcome, and which move you further away… Which do you say more, “And” or “But”? Do you believe it…… Continue Reading
When to Read: When the door is safely closed What Willow Knew… Rosalind and I made a new friend last month, and wow, did he (or she) teach us a thing or two about non-verbal communication. We had heard there are feral, stray cats in Center Parcs at Longleat Forest – and we are not…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 40 Seconds When praising, helping or guiding people – do this for MAXIMUM impact Be specific Why? Because that’s what the brain understands Praising – Minimum impact – ‘Thank you for the work you did today’ MAXIMUM Impact – ‘Thank you for sorting out that customer problem today’ Helping – Minimum…… Continue Reading