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Avoiding Tears and Tantrums: Giving Negative Feedback Like a Pro
You’ll never forget the first time someone bursts into tears when hearing your feedback. If you care about your teams, there are few worse feelings in the world. For this reason, many of us shy away from delivering critical feedback. Unfortunately – as most of us soon find out – this only makes things worse…
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3 Popular Career Myths – Fact or Fairytale?
As I continue to progress through my career, I have uncovered that there are a few things we have been taught about…
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Taking the Leap of Faith – Why You Should Live Overseas for a Year
Travel has a way of bringing great fulfilment to our lives. If you’ve ever traveled to another country, you’ve broadened your horizons…
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5 Ways to Manage Without Micromanaging: Avoid Being a Nightmare Leader
Micromanagement is the Achilles heel of any high-performing team. From an organisational perspective, it typically leads to a decrease in productivity, lower employee engagement, and less innovation.
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“How are you?” – The 3 most infuriating words in the English language?
We’re going to war. Our enemy? The 3 most useless and frustrating words in the English language: “How are you?”
Are you with me?
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From the archives
Be the Coffee Guy
Experience has taught me that there are two types of people in the world:
– Those who fetch/make coffee for others; and
– Those who don’t.
Fake it ’til you make it
Being an auditor making his way through the ranks of the business world has its perks, albeit that they’re often more sparse than nuns in a brothel…
So you failed your big exam. Now what?
My social media feeds blew up on the 14th of February. To my supreme shock, the content was 0% secret admirers…
Leadership quote of the day – 1 March
Be the leader you would follow.”” – Various Today’s leadership quote is one that’s stuck with me for years, and one…
Quote on regular motivation
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar…
Short-term secondment: 5 reasons why you should go
A crazy number of people pass up the opportunity each year to go on secondments to other countries, especially those of…
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How COVID-19 is answering Millenials’ prayers
Coronavirus has had serious consequences across the globe, with the stock markets collapsing along with everyone’s common sense. Yes, it’s a…
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Are you indispensable?
If there was ever a time to ask yourself this question, it’s now. I write this post as the status quo…
Quote: Dealing with failure
Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.- Winston Churchill This well-known Churchill…