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Networking – do it right or don’t waste your time.

Networking that works. Check the network is within your target market. Have a genuine desire to learn about others. Ask questions, listen and ask about what they said. Then listen again and ask again. This will ensure the other person is interested – they are talking about themselves and you are listening. Don’t add onto…

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Energy costs and conundrums or, acorn and no peas!

I received two emails (poorly identified and set out) telling me of changes to pricing as of June 2023. One for electricity and one for gas. I rang the supplier, I waited for 28 minutes and then I am told the best they can do is 6% of the standard rate. They don’t mention that…

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Changing our negative circumstances – owning our tomorrows!

Equal value – partners appreciating and honouring and respecting and caring for each other. It starts maybe with how we feel about ourselves. We all carry baggage of various depths and severity from our childhood onwards – how we were treated, how we coped, the mechanisms we employed to survive. We live with expectations, and…

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Strategic Thinking Tools

There are many tools that can help break away from fixed thinking,  the negative impact of paradigms on new thinking,  the negative effect of group and pre-emptive thinking  abundant in Command and Control negative environments.  The topics below are selected at random as somewhere to start. It could be argued that there is no specific…

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Achieving a culture that allows people to think and contribute effectively

Meeting maybe the biggest Leadership challenge of not only this decade or century but potentially all time is the ability to work on The ability for leaders to listen The ability for leaders to ‘really’ share decision making The ability of those under management to find ways to break through The belief that people under…

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For businesses to realise their full potential, they need their people at their full potential.

Definitions-Contrarian: A person who takes an opposing view, especially one who rejects the majority opinion, as in economic matters www.dictioary.com A contrarian is defined as a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion. Despite most people conforming to social norms simply out of laziness to go against the grain if anything else, some people remain resistant, developing…

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Don’t just sack/fire/dismiss/make redundant – your loss – loss also of integrity

Don’t ‘manage out’(sack/fire/dismiss/make redundant) an underperforming or poor behaving employee – repatriate them! Unless your system was seriously flawed when you defined the position, when you (or people you trusted with the assignment) proceeded through the recruitment process through to engagement, the performance reviews etc, at some stage this employee had been useful, maybe even…

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STROKE HAS A NEW INDICATOR – a must read!

We are all available to medical instances, one being STROKE! Accordingly, I take this opportunity to share – Stroke has a new indicator.   They say if I email this to ten people, I stand a chance of saving one life. Will you send this along?  Blood Clots/Stroke – They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue STROKE:  Remember…

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