Top Tips so You Play Better to your Strengths

The Art of Doing the Right Things (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello and welcome to Career Tips! If you are a regular subscriber, then you may recall that last month’s article was entitled “The Art of Getting the Right Things Done” and focused on personal effectiveness tips. […]

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5 Tips to Make Sure you Achieve what you Want

Optimise your Chances of Success by Identifying your Blind Spots (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) In the preceding article, we talked about setting ourselves and our team goals which truly motivate. Goals which play to our skills, but which also make us feel empowered and autonomous, give us a lot […]

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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 Quickly Make an Impact in a New Job

What to do upon joining a new firm or taking on a different position (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello and welcome to the concluding article in my series designed to help you change jobs. We looked at CV and cover letter writing as well as how to interview well. […]

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3 Steps to Setting and Achieving your Goals in 2013

A Recipe to Keep your New Year’s Resolutions (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello and a happy and prosperous 2013 to all! For many, January is the month of so-called “resolutions”. And yet, I just read that one in four New Year’s resolutions are broken in the first week, […]

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5 Steps to Leading Others through Change

Help Them to SHIFT™ (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to chapter two of my two-part series on change! Last month, the onset of autumn provided the inspiration to look at how we cope with change, that challenging constant at home and at work. I shared with you the […]

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4 Steps to Finally Embracing Change

How to VEER™ Gracefully (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to fall! Welcome to autumn! In the UK, where I live, the rain is back and it’s getting chillier in the mornings and evenings. It’s a time of change with the leaves turning all shades of yellow and red. […]

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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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Beating Drudgery and Dejection Part 2

How Practicing Choice and Gratitude will Help you Stay Motivated (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) In the preceding article, I was discussing Drudgery at work and its boon companion Dejection. With Drudgery, all sense of fun is lost and with Dejection motivation goes out the window. I gave […]

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Beating Drudgery and Dejection Part 1

Keeping your Spirits Up in the face of Adversity with some ‘What’ Questions (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) The other day, a friend wrote me: “I am in a phase of life where everything is just plain drudgery, heavy annoyance and pain internally.…we are all struggling massively….” Does […]

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