New coaching journeys now available. Business and Personal Coaching are commonly used in the work environment and are extremely effective in creating change in people. Life coaching takes a holistic view in order to gain a better life/work balance. Coaching journeys can help you deal with major transitions in both life and business. Personal issues […]
Insights Discovery ® Personal Development Profiles – What’s Your Personality Type? Insights Discovery ® Personal Development Profiles are a comprehensive personal development tool. It is produced from your answers to a series of 25 online questions about your behavioural preferences. It will identify your personality type which will help you understand the following. Your […]
What development programmes can you choose from? Presented below are the various development programmes and services I offer to individuals and businesses. Have a look and when you are interested in the sound of any item of my portfolio please send me an email or give me a ring. I have many contacts around the […]
The leadership mindset – from mere manager to liberated leader Why should you change your leadership mindset? There are some scary statistics about staff who are being disengaged by managers. Many managers were great at their job and therefore promoted by senior managers who thought they would be successful leading a team. They also thought […]
What can you learn about presentation skills from delegate feedback? In this series on presentation skills we’ve previously looked at the benefits of giving presentations, overcoming the barriers, effective preparation and different presentation styles. Preparing and rehearsing the delivery of your presentation is essential. It’s also important to think about things from the perspective of […]
Customer service is an essential ingredient for a successful business Customer service is something which impacts strongly on all of us, whether as business people or customers. It is the level of customer service which dictates whether we come back to buy more or vow never to return. Let me give an example. Recently my […]
How to manage negative self talk with positive regard Recently I was having a conversation with a fellow coach, Nicky Cowling, about how she’s getting on with her running. Nicky started running to keep up with the fitness levels of her husband and teenage daughters and found that her negative self talk was perhaps the most challenging aspect […]
Happiness – how to be happy Our new theme looks at ways to be happy. I was going to call it ‘Stress Management’ or something similar, but something about the term assumes that stress is obligatory. The mere mention of it makes me feel more tense! So I’d prefer to come at the subject from […]
Do you get more work from traditional or informal networking? I have recently realised something odd about networking. I have never met a single person who admits to enjoying it or being good at it! It seems as though it is regarded as something of a black art, which we are all eager to distance […]
How do you make sure your presentation style is up to the mark? In the previous posts in this series we looked at the benefits of giving presentations, some of the barriers to doing so, the importance of good preparation and how environment, objective and structure all need to be considered. Now we look at […]
Procrastination – what are the causes? A while ago one of our regular readers, Bev Wright, suggested I write about procrastination for the blog. Thanks, Bev, I appreciate the thought, and I’d have got round to it sooner, but you know how it is! So what’s the deal about procrastination? We all do it – put something off which […]
Make sure you deliver an effective presentation Presentations can take up valuable time and resources so it’s important to make sure there are benefits for both you and your audience. You want to deliver an effective presentation, don’t you? If you’re asked to prepare and deliver a presentation, always check that there is a clear objective. […]
Have you got what it takes to be a skillful leader? A lot has been written about the role of a manager and how it differs from leadership. So do you think you are a skillful leader or a mere manager? The term management is used to describe people responsible for the work and performance […]
New coaching journeys now available. Business and Personal Coaching are commonly used in the work environment and are extremely effective in creating change in people. Life coaching takes a holistic ... Read More »
Personal Development Profiles – The Insights Discovery® System. I’ve used these personal development profiles over the last 20 years and the feedback I get is invariably positive.The Insights Discovery® system ... Read More »
Coaching with Insights Discovery profiles I often use Insights Discovery profiles before starting a course of coaching with a client. In my experience Insights Discovery profiles have the most impact on my clients. The client answers an online questionnaire about their preferred behaviour styles and their responses generate a report. This 20 page report outlines their strengths, areas for improvement, blind […]
What can you learn about presentation skills from delegate feedback? In this series on presentation skills we’ve previously looked at the benefits of giving presentations, overcoming the barriers, effective preparation and different presentation styles. Preparing and rehearsing the delivery of your presentation is essential. It’s also important to think about things from the perspective of […]
How do you make sure your presentation style is up to the mark? In the previous posts in this series we looked at the benefits of giving presentations, some of the barriers to doing so, the importance of good preparation and how environment, objective and structure all need to be considered. Now we look at […]
Effective presentation – what do you want to achieve?
Make sure you deliver an effective presentation Presentations can take up valuable time and resources so it’s important to make sure there are benefits for both you and your audience. You want to deliver an effective presentation, don’t you? If you’re asked to prepare and deliver a presentation, always check that there is a clear objective. […]
How to put a presentation together
Four tips on how to put a presentation together In the previous blog post on successful presentations we looked at the benefits of giving presentations, the barriers to doing it, and started to look at preparation. This post looks at how to put a presentation together so that your preparation prepares you for success. Remember the six […]
Giving successful presentations Successful presentations don’t just happen. They need lots of preparation, specific skills and the right state of mind. It is said that people fear presentations more than they do death! Have you given presentations before? What was it like? Do you find giving presentations difficult? The objective of this article is to […]
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