Two Persuasion Techniques in Action

Getting under Someone Else’s Skin (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) How did you find using “SWAY”©? For those readers who may have missed the article on this model of persuasion, a very brief recap: ‘S’ is for ‘Significance‘ where you investigate the interest and need of your audience – […]

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Four Steps to Influence People

Persuasion Tools (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) As promised last month, in this article on how to influence others, I’m going to show you the core elements of a persuasion strategy. I will share with you a four-step model called “SWAY”©. I have called it “SWAY”© because when you have […]

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Are You Good at Influencing People?

Being Able to Persuade Others is Key to Your Success at Work (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello and welcome to the first of three posts on the topic of how to influence people. In this article, I will examine what happens when we try to influence people without […]

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Your Quality of Life at Work: What You Can do About it!

Four Tips to be more Comfortable in your Workplace (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) This article follows on from the previous one which walked you through a self-assessment to determine whether you are at least reasonably happy at work. If you missed last month’s article, you catch it […]

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What’s your Quality of Life – at Work?

Being Able to Know Whether You are Happy at Work (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to the first summer edition of Career Tips! To help us shift gears away from work considerations, let’s ask: are you happy at work? In the morning, do you look forward to going into the office? […]

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Keys to Maintaining Motivation – for You and your Team

Reflections on Motivation and How we May Lose it (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to the sixth edition of Career Tips in 2014. Earlier in the year, we talked about your work goals for 2014, we discussed your blind spots and how they can prevent you from making […]

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Top 3 Tips to Set Goals which Motivate

A Fresh Look at Setting your Team’s Work Objectives (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) In this first offering of 2014, I am returning to the topic of work objectives as many of you are likely to be or soon will be engaged in considering your objectives at work for 2014 and […]

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Top 5 Tips to Making the Most of LinkedIn

Leveraging your Presence on LinkedIn (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello and welcome to the second of two articles concerning LinkedIn. In the previous offering, we looked at how to build a good LinkedIn profile – in contrast to many profiles on LinkedIn whose quality is poor and therefore give a […]

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Top 5 Tips to Making an Impact with your CV

The Noteworthy CV: A Preview of Coming Attractions (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello! So how are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions for 2013? I’m asking because most of us make some every January. For that reason, I had dedicated my first article to picking the […]

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4 Steps to Effective Decision-Making

Taking your PICK™ (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) To all those of you who took a well-deserved break, let me welcome you back! You know, there is an interesting piece of statistics I always think about when it comes to September: September is the month when people make the […]

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3 Simple Ways to Motivate your Team

Secrets of Team Effectiveness (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) I am publishing this article just as the Olympics conclude here in London. Did you watch the Games? Or better yet, did you have a chance to go to any of the Olympic venues and be part of that […]

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The 3 Fundamental Do’s of Successful Delegation

Finally Being Able to Effectively Delegate! (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) In this article, I am turning my attention to the art of delegation. But before we go any further, let me encourage you to see how well you currently delegate by taking this fun but informative self-quiz! […]

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