4 Keys to a Trained and Productive Workplace
When you’re interested in getting all that you need out of your company, you need to make training a fundamental and ongoing part of the process. Too many companies simply set it and forget it with training, treating it like a formality and failing to continuously give employees the information that they need to grow […]
Three Keys to Building World Class Professionals
To get the most out of your workplace, you’ll want to focus on empowering your employees, rather than just having them fulfill your objectives. By taking the time to sit down with them and truly understand what makes them tick, you will have the opportunity to get the most from them in the long run. […]
Helping Your Employees Do “Deep” Work
Deep work is a practice and philosophy that allows your company to get more work done on your terms. The last thing you’d ever want is to have an office that is disorganized and unfocused. Whether you work in tech or handle labor-intensive contracting jobs, the way that you go about your business starts at […]
Video: Dealing with difficult people
In the Clear Lessons video featured below, Zeina Bain suggests trying to work out what makes people tick, so you can work with their personality rather than against them. “Having looked at the different types of people I’ve worked with, typically senior CEOs, or chief financial officers, I’m always trying to figure out what makes […]
360-degree feedback for leadership development: what are you practising?
The idea is simple; it enables people to give and receive honest feedback and to develop greater self-awareness, which will (hopefully) lead to a positive shift in behaviours, in the direction of greater leadership skills. I say hopefully, because there’s no evidence that such a shift in behaviours occurs. It is at its best, when: […]
A Guide to Building Successful Sales Pros
When you are trying to take your company to the next level, it’s vital that you build superstar employees. This is especially the case if your company specializes in sales. By sticking to the tenets of sales that will allow you to grow your revenue, you will be in an excellent position to thrive throughout your […]
Does Your Organization Need External Coaching?
In modern offices around the globe, the importance of coaching your workforce continuously is finally starting to get recognized. Still, many managers, business owners, and HR officials tasked with workplace training initiatives don’t know where to begin when it comes to implementing coaching policies in their own businesses. One of the greatest dilemmas facing these […]
Five Steps to Becoming a Better Boss
The ability to manage doesn’t come naturally to everyone. It takes talent, practice and for some, copious amounts of coffee and reflection. A good leader is someone who dedicates time and focus to individual success and development, rather than the performance of a team as a whole. Being a good leader and being happy were […]
Tips for trainers: why the education system is failing learners and how to change the established learning mindset
Does the British educational system leave a bitter taste in the mouth that affects learning later in life? That may well be the case, but here’s some practical advice on how businesses can turn back time and engage their learners. “Smithy! Stop talking. Here’s the verb table book, now get on and learn it”, said my […]
Networking and Winning
For a couple of weeks our television was dominated by the European Athletics Championship. This was not necessarily my choice, but it could have been worse – in our household we managed to completely avoid the national obsession with Love Island! What struck me most, watching the athletics, was the friendliness of the games. Time […]
3 Essential Guidelines to Hire a Diversity Officer
Diversity has been a prime focus of many organizations for the past 20 years. However, the discussion started heating up more than ever over the past year. Google engineer James Damore created controversy when he released his memo on biological differences between male and female employees last summer. This drove more organizations to evaluate their […]
Sentenced to life-long learning – and what a great thing it is
Life-long learning doesn’t just happen – time needs to be carved out and motivation needs to be sustained. Have you got what it takes? A life sentence might sound pretty onerous and negative. But so can the notion of “learning for life”. It’s something that we may pay lip service to but do we actually do […]
Leadership development: how to create ‘cooling spaces’ in the heat of uncertainty
Self-reflection, or ‘cooling space’, is an underrated commodity in today’s working environment but it’s essential to ensuring that leaders keep a clear head and are responsive to change. The heat is on for the leaders of today. We are living in an age of uncertainty. In the retail sector alone we’ve seen headlines about […]
Instilling tech-savvy values into your company
You need to become familiar with how to get the most out of your workplace. In this regard, your networking capabilities are crucial. Not only do you need to have the best infrastructure in place, it’s also vital that you train people in a way that makes them savvy with their web use and communication. […]
My expectations are too high. How do I lower them?
A client at the iNLP Center said the following (and I got permission to post this): I’m a big dreamer. I always imagine myself being very successful if I take a certain path but I when I fail I get very disappointed when I don’t meet those exceptions. How can I lower my expectations? Here’s how […]
People management: why introverts make great leaders
Introverts have the potential to be great leaders but in order to bring out the best in them organisations need to provide the right executive coaching. The term ‘introvert’ is rarely associated with great leadership. Introverts tend to shy away from blowing their own trumpets and as a result, you don’t hear about many in […]
Stuck on a Goal? Here’s How to Get Aligned
I interviewed one of our life coaching students, Heather, about what she learned in the course and how she is applying her NLP and coaching skills from the iNLP Center. She found a great way to integrate goal-setting with mind maps. Here’s what she reported. Thanks, Heather! I’ve had this great idea for a small business […]
Soft skills: Why playing it safe with non-verbal communication is a bad idea in business
Before we even open our mouths to speak, others are forming opinions of us based on our non-verbal communication. Despite this, many leaders are still getting it wrong when it comes to the signals they are giving out to their teams. Non-verbal communication, for example your body language, facial expressions and posture, can all influence […]
Overwhelmed by Thinking? Try This
There’s enough to think about for most of us without thinking too much about thinking itself. But as a mindfulness teacher and keen thought-thinker, the data-stream running through our heads, how to talk about it, and what to do with it, provides me with an endless source of fascination. Thinking, after all, along with emotions […]
Why we choke: a fresh perspective
Underperforming when it counts or choking is one of those frustrating problems we’d do well to redefine. Choking is not well understood. How can you perform something to near perfection in practice, then somehow screw up when it matters most? Typical explanations, once analyzed, don’t hold up. Here are some examples of conventional wisdom: The […]
