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DELIVER your message with a KISS. Yes, you may want to add a little love and affection to your audience, although Keeping It Short and Simple is the key here. With me so far? Excellent. KISS is an easy acronym to remember. And the intimation is clear. Short and sharp is the way forward. The…… Continue Reading
WHEN you focus on a clear outcome – result – you believe that result is possible and that you have the abilities to achieve it and make it real – you will therefore notice more help, information and resources than you may have noticed before. You have to – it is a scientific fact. (Extract…… Continue Reading
REINVENT your organisation. Replace change programmes with choice programmes. This week, ask three people in your company to come up with up to three specific ideas each that would transform the company. Ensure a culture where imaginations and innovations thrive. Make a difference. Do it now.… Continue Reading
HOW to win friends and influence people? Easy. Prepare your case. In business, you need to think through what should be done, why it is needed and also think how people might react. Only then can you decide how to make your case. What is the proposal, the benefit, the cost? Why should change occur…… Continue Reading
INSIDE your team, debate, discuss and decide – then go forward with one voice. Providing everyone has had a chance to have their say, and been genuinely listened to, they will go forward with you. ‘One team – one vision’. This does not mean you are ‘against’ other teams (we can all be in more…… Continue Reading
WHERE you need to reprimand an individual or group, remember that old adage, ‘praise before criticism.’ Otherwise you will create a wall and your thoughts will not be heard. This should apply to the way you deal with others, as well as yourself. Always use the positivity of your situation as a guide. Then bring…… Continue Reading
BREAK free from seeking the approval of others. You will never become a well-respected person and brand without detractors, and these people may be very vocal in their opposition to you. You need that; you need these people talking about you, having a go at what you have done, often complete strangers to you, to…… Continue Reading
THE future must be different, and it can be, from this moment on. Wherever you are reading this, on a train, at home or on holiday, stop reading right now, and check the time, and date. For if you so choose, your life will change forever, right now. Okay, now resolve that you will become…… Continue Reading
SOMEWHERE beneath the layers of dust, fear and limiting beliefs that have attached themselves to our lives, is the feeling that there is more, so much more; that our lives to date have been but a blade of grass compared to what we can be. (Extract from The Naked Leader)… Continue Reading
MAKE sure you overachieve. How? By over delivering. If you give more, the likelihood is you will achieve more. Help others get what they want too. They will do the same for you.… Continue Reading