1 Sep 2023 | Blog, Managing Yourself
How to stop email (and social media) controlling your day Email is a lot like Schrödinger’s cat. Both are dead and alive at the same time. Mathias Röckel There are over 4,371 billion email users. This figure is predicted to reach 4,730 billion by 2026 which is...
28 Aug 2023 | Blog, Managing Yourself
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” Steven Spielberg Ever find yourself wishing for a shoulder, a sounding board, a source of advice,...
21 May 2021 | Blog, Managing Yourself, Personal and professional development
Sometimes you need to take a step back and reflect on your career to date. Whatever stage of work life you have reached, if there every was a time to think about what is important, in this period of possible post pandemic restart, it is now. Many career review systems...
14 Apr 2021 | Leading Teams, Managing Change, Managing Yourself
Influencing or influencer Do you influence or are you an influencer? In 1936 Dale Carnegie wrote the quintessential self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People. Maybe he knew that in the soon to be airport bookshop managers, old and new, would be...
19 Mar 2021 | Managing Yourself, Operational Essentials, Personal and professional development
Writing skills … message received and understood? Don’t let the medium be the message! Writing is one way to get your message across. But how to make sure that the message your readers / your audience receive is the same as the one you sent? To ensure your writing is...
5 Mar 2021 | Leading Teams, Managing Yourself
It’s not a dirty word. The business of backscratching? Or the art of developing relationships – the ultimate relationship marketing? In desperate need of info (or a job), you: call up old contacts you haven’t seen in years; attend ‘networking’ events – that you hate;...
