Conflicting Agendas: You vs. Your Boss

It would be reasonable to assume that you and your boss have the same agenda, when it comes to you work. However, your priorities may well be different. Here’s a quick test you can do. Quick as you can, jot down the top 3-5 items on your agenda. Make sure to write...

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The Trouble with Beliefs

Beliefs are everything.  Beliefs shape everything you do. Your performance is totally influenced by what you believe. The feedback you get is down to other people’s beliefs, yet how you receive said feedback, is down to your beliefs. Events happen. That they turn out...

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Post-Pandemic Reputation Building

Whatever your views on the current global crisis, all things must come to an end. How the end affects you, and what comes after, to a large extent, is up to you. You can write your own story, far more than you may realise. However, one thing I can promise you, is that...

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What? Another New Boss?

Bosses come and go, and with increasing frequency. One of my clients is getting ready for their first meeting (interview?) and another is preparing for a potential departure, so I thought it worth sharing a few thoughts on this topic. There are three things to think...

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Attitudes and Dress Sense

How much thought (and money) do you invest in looking presentable? Assuming that you care about the impression you are creating, probably quite a bit. It is important to look the part, to convey a positive image looking like you mean business. But, that doesn’t get...

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It’s Time to Play

If you don’t play, you don’t learn, very well. If you don’t learn, you don’t change, very well. If you don’t change, tomorrow will be pretty much the same as today. And today, will be pretty much the same as yesterday. Which is pretty pointless, and very boring. So...

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