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Improve Your Leadership Skills with The Be Helpful Keystone Habit [A Free Guide]

This guide gives you the practical steps to improve your leadership skills and achieve the outstanding results others can’t. It starts with a keystone habit – the secret sauce that made all the difference for me – walks you through the method that delivers the improvements, and finishes with an example from my own career […]

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How to Be Open Minded at Work and In Social Media [3 Practical Examples]

Examples of being open-minded cover a wide range of behaviours and scenarios. There are minor examples like trying new food or watching a new show, while at the other end of the scale are the giant steps, like deciding to talk and listen to people with the polar opposite political views. At work, we encounter […]

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How to Keep A Work/Life Balance

What comes to mind when you think of a work/life balance? It’s a question I’m sure you’ve asked yourself more than once. I have some good news for you. I’m going to: What Do We Mean When We Say, “Work/Life Balance?” When we think of the work-life balance we typically see it as a 50-50 […]

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Good Things Happen When We Put People First

Can you succeed in business and life when you put people first? Yes. Yes you can. This episode outlines what it means to be helpful at home and at work, how taking an experimental approach to our work is a positive thing, and successful examples from life and business of the good things that happen […]

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10 Practical Tips For a Healthy & Positive Mindset – Part II

In Part I we established key habits to help us gain a positive mindset. Being mindful of how we think and act, ensuring our communications always have value, and thinking differently and simplifying where we can. Part II continues by looking at how we can keep our growing workload organized (one of the biggest areas […]

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10 Practical Tips For a Healthy & Positive Mindset – Part I

Central to all exceptional leaders, no matter their style, is a positive mindset. It’s that calm and reassuring view they have of their team and the work to be done. The secret that helps them excel above their peers. When there is so much going on around us, exacerbated by the anxiety and stress of […]

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Survey results are a funny thing. The same set of numbers can be interpreted as good or bad, for or against. It’s all about the story you’re trying to sell. And, in full disclosure, my pitch is that our project success rates are lower than they could be. More often than not, our projects are […]

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Why do Projects Fail Even Though Good People are Working Hard?

Have you ever found yourself sitting at your desk, your emails front and centre on your screen, quietly shaking your head? I need an update! Where are you with this? Has everybody filled out the weekly update? How about these other familiar head shakers: The team is writing code like crazy, but the number of […]