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Our latest newsletter is an available for download. this edition's topics include: Taking a Closer Look at Problem Solving Becoming More Effective A Winner Never Gives Up Determine What Success Means to You Develop Your Plan for Achievement Bridging the Gap Between...
We all use it (although we probably deny it); when it’s used on us, we enjoy it (although we probably deny it); it fills the atmosphere and ethos in organisations with dangerous complacency and not a few injuries, as the back-slapping becomes unbearable. Yes –...
I enjoy looking beyond the immediately obvious sources of business and management texts for lessons worth learning, and military history is possibly the best teacher of all. Last Friday was 25th October - St. Crispin’s day – and the anniversary of the famous battle of...
Armies, governments, rock bands, sports teams – even knitting groups – all need leaders. So there should be no surprise that businesses that have no clear leader, or no effective leadership, suffer from more than simply poor performance. This would be the perfect spot...
'Write a goal down?! Pah - It's all up here in my head...!' Goal setting is a key component of any successful person or business. When this subject comes up there is usually a look of dismay on my clients' face when I explain how important writing them down is, and I...
September update from Mark Tonks & LMI Welcome to latest edition of Shed Loads of Leadership. In this edition a little food for thought, a couple of upcoming events ideal for business networking alongside personal development, an interesting article on the impact...
Restructuring If Bob Costello, VP & Chief Economist of the American Trucking Associations, is right, the recovery has started. This is good news and potentially not such good news. Recently a leader shared with us a challenge we might all be facing. He had cut his...
Your ability to do the right things, at the right time, for right length of time in order to achieve your goals will ultimately be the key element in your success. Staying focused on your high pay off activities is the key to productivity and productivity is the well...
There is a great quote that goes something like this “whatever you achieve in this life is all your fault, what would you be happy to take the blame for?” I’m not sure who said it but it’s brilliant. Let’s face it, footballers blame the referee, students blame their...
Daniel Goleman tells of a friend, Richard Boyatzis, a professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western in Ohio. He researched brain imaging to analyze how coaching affects the brain differently when you focus on dreams instead of failings. Boyatzis...