There’s no getting away from it. At some stage, in both your personal and professional life, you will inevitably run into one or more truly toxic people. And, though they are often portrayed in cartoonish ways in the mass media, the negative effect they can have on your life is very real indeed. Unfortunately, toxic…
Read More10 Mistakes Successful People Know Never To Repeat
Mistakes, are what enable us to learn and grow as humans. There’s no shame in making them and they happen to the best of us with a crushing inevitability. There are really only two things that matter when it comes to mistakes: How you react to them. Whether you make them again. It’s the latter…
Read MoreHow To Move The Needle By Managing Meetings Effectively
Let’s start with two simple questions: How much of your previous working week was taken up with meetings? A ballpark figure in hours will do. How many of those meetings were actually productive from your point of view? Are your answers a little unsettling? For many people, they will be little short of terrifying. It’s…
Read More4 Ways for Making the Most of Remote Work
There’s a lot to be said for the comforts of office life. Companionship and conversation are guaranteed, there’s the comforting routine of physically clocking in and out along with the shared feeling of being part of a team all pulling towards the same set of goals. With the ubiquity of global broadband and the speed…
Read More5 Ways to Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence
Since their introduction over a century ago, IQ tests have provided a reasonably standard and generally agreed upon way of measuring intelligence across the world. From the beginning though, they’ve been dogged by one question – how much of what they measure has any relevance to success in the wider world? Successive studies have shown…
Read More5 Cornerstone Qualities On How To Be A Successful Entrepreneur
There are literally hundreds of tiny habits that successful entrepreneurs take on board over the course of their careers but a commitment to action rather procrastination is the big one that cannot be ignored. As a wise and very ancient small, green gentlemen once so memorably observed – Do or do not. There is no…
Read More6 Steps To Keep Your Customers Close
As our world becomes ever more “connected”, a paradoxical problem heaves ever more into view – how to meaningfully engage with each other in an increasingly digitally mediated world? It’s not a question limited to the personal realm either; businesses large and small worldwide are struggling to build long-term relationships with their customers and losing…
Read MoreThe Curse Of The ‘Quick Coffee’
As a small-business owner, it’s a question I’ve come to dread – How about we grab a quick coffee to discuss? Is it because I hate coffee? Hardly. That bitter nectar is the oil my all too hectic weeks run on. Is it because I hate people? Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s…
Read MoreMaking Social Media Matter For Your Business
These days, it’s easier to count the people you know who don’t have some sort of social media presence than the ones who do. From the CEO to the guy mowing the lawn, virtually everybody out there has some sort of online platform to share their views with the world. Don’t let the ubiquity of…
Read MoreAre you Battling Busyness?
We are in the midst of a busyness epidemic. I’m busy, my co-workers are busy, you’re doubtless super busy, we’re all raising increasingly busy children. Even our pets look busy these days. Ask yourself this though – with all this busyness, how much is actually getting done? Do you find yourself occasionally pining for the…
Read More