Do you criticise decisions or ideas from your colleagues, or do you employ critical thinking techniques to test, or challenge ideas to establish a solid foundation of truth before making a judgement? It may seem a simple question. Obviously, we stress test ideas and suggestions, we don’t just take things on face value in the […]
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Is it just me or is life getting more stressful? It’s such an overused phrase, “just breath”, but if you’re like me and are feeling higher levels of stress these days, it maybe worthwhile stopping to take a breath… That may sound a stupid thing to say, especially as we breath every day, but studies
I just wanted to share with you some thoughts that I have been mulling over following a number of coaching sessions I have been conducting since the COVID-19 virus changed everything. The main focus of my conversations with people at this time seems to centre around fear.Now I don’t mean the fear of the virus,
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A random message from the LinkedIn UK Team asked the question “what does success mean to me?” and it made me think. Spending my working life focusing on developing others can sometimes mean I don’t ask the same questions of myself, so I decided to question my own beliefs and ideas about success. In truth
So in the past six weeks I have travelled across three continents, dodged a hurricane and sat on the beach of the black sea watching Bulgarian software developers build boats out of cardboard. I sometimes reflect on how diverse my daily life is and the impact that has on how I view things. Diversity has
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Last week I was in Australia which was a breath of fresh air after Hong Kong. The pace slowed, the people slowed but it got colder. An eight hour flight later and you move to the middle of winter for Australians, which for a Brit is still warm. My body clock however is really getting
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Well it’s been a long and successful week working in Hong Kong with a group of Asian Sales people in the healthcare market. Asia is an amazing place and with over 60% of the worlds population living here it is to say the least, busy. The regions growth has been amazing and most of the
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Stress in the workplace Working with companies all over the world, and travelling from one continent to the other I often witness unhappy people, and recently it seems there are more and more unhappy people walking around and walking into my classroom. So I was recently reading a number of surveys that analysed stress and
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As I sit here writing this blog on my Apple iPhone, I look around and see 99% of the people sitting near me are also looking at their smart device. Couples sit oblivious to each other’s company eyes reflecting the faint glow of the screen they so intently study. I look out of the window
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VUCA In The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman notes that the rate of change today is much different than in the past. “Whenever civilisation has gone through one of these disruptive, dislocating technical revolutions —like Gutenberg’s introduction of the printing press — the whole world has changed in profound ways,” he writes. “But there is
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