Our brain is like Velcro for bad news and Teflon for good. From evolution, we are programmed to default to the ...
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Counting (on) The Cost of Trust
From a work perspective, a ‘psychologically safe’ workplace is defined as 'a climate of interpersonal trust and ...
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Can I give you some Feedback?
When we are asked by someone if we would like feedback, our brains default to the negative and assume it’s going to ...
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3 Key Strategies for Thriving in the Ever-Changing World of Being an Author
This is an article I wrote for www.thecreativepenn.com Every day we hear of new strategies for writing faster or ...
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Why Storytelling can be a Leader’s Secret Weapon
When we listen to stories we are transported, not just because we are in a different state of brainwave, but ...
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Mind Full or Mindful? Creating the Gift of Presence
Mind Full or Mindful? Creating the Gift of Presence As the clocks tick towards the end of 2016 and the beginning of ...
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Are you Paying Attention or Paying for a Lack of it?
Our ability to maintain focus and attention relies on our ability to manage our thinking and look after our brain. ...
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Getting to Grips with Unconscious bias
Unconscious bias seems to be getting a lot of airplay these days in the field of diversity and inclusion. So just ...
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Expand your Knowledge with some Inspiring Summer Reading
Often when I speak or run development programmes I’m asked what books I might recommend – therein lies ...
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How to Increase your Personal Engagement at Work
Strategies to increase genuine engagement at work so that you remain focused, attentive and productive and enjoy ...
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How well do you handle Rejection?
Strategies to help you deal effectively with rejection and move on and up so you return to productivity as soon as ...
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Exploring the Predictable Dynamics of Change
There is so much that we can predict about how we react or respond to change and once we know this we can change ...
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How will you celebrate success at work at the end of today?
It’s Friday, many people in the workplace might feel like they’ve been swimming through treacle since returning ...
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Why Zebras* (and probably Reindeer) won’t be stressing this Christmas
Understanding your Brain on Stress How many of us are worrying about organising Christmas, stressing about ...
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The Key to Building a Tribe from a Team through Social Capital
What makes a good team great? What makes one team gel and another continually end up in conflict? When pondering ...
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Strategies for Building Certainty in Chaos and Change
When our core needs are not met we go into aversive or negative stress, when we go into stress we cannot think ...
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Gratitude in the Workplace and why it Matters
Gratitude underpins resilience and our life satisfaction levels (happiness). When we are faced with setbacks and ...
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How to Foster Curiosity in Leadership
How high does curiosity rank in your business or personal values? How do you develop the traits and attributes of ...
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Creating a Culture where no-one wants to Retire
Much research has been done on happiness and meaning at work by Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North ...
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Inspiring 21st Century Leadership with the i4 Neuroleader Tool
A Message for Learning and Development Professionals The Changing Face of Developing Leaders Over the last few ...
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The Importance of Quality Sleep and Why I love my Blackout Blind
When we arrived in the UK in March, the first thing we noticed was that the sky wasn’t dark at night. In ...
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Why your first ‘gut’ Decision could be your Best – Intuition vs Analysis
I’ve just finished listening to a great podcast with Dr Jonathan Schooler from the University of California ...
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Why it’s Time to Take Positivity Seriously
Picture this; it’s the end of your working day and on the whole it’s been a great day. You started with a friendly ...
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Changing the Habits of Habit
Habits habits everywhere, some good, some bad, all well engrained. From the time the alarm goes off or little ...
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