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Here you’ll find inspiration, advice, and best practice all focused on your communication skills development, managing public speaking anxiety, improving your confidence in the workplace, developing effective leadership skills, knowing how best to find a new job or career, and how to understand your strengths, skills and values.

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Stuck and bored of your job? Reading this is your first step to freedom

Life and work can be tricky when you’re stuck. This gentle book takes you by the hand and helps you get unstuck.

Recently, a friend told me about a book. I was intrigued by the title and was also interested in what the book looks at because it explores some quite big issues but does so in a kind of gentle, storytelling way.

The book is called “The cafe on the edge of the world” and it’s a fairly short read of 125 pages.

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Why your inner critic will thank you for wishful thinking

Here’s my third and final post on how to manage your inner critic, and today it’s all about changing the tune that you listen to.

Imagine the scene.

Something’s happened and you’re not happy about what you said or did.

And in your head the “Ballad of Regret” is playing big time.

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Swapping chaos for calm and how to manage the little voices in your head

D’you know that voice in your head? Recently, I posted the first way to manage that. Here’s a second way you can tame the voice if it’s getting a bit big for its boots and all bossy and judgy with you. And it’s to do with having good manners.

Using this technique lets you create distance between you and your thoughts. And puts in a bit of a boundary.

And why’s that important?

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How to control your inner critic by checking in with yourself

Your inner critic. The sh*tty committee. Fred. Or perhaps Tabitha. Do you have a name for the voice in your head?

I’m going to share 3 ways of managing that voice, and this is the first of those articles.

This first method is to check in with yourself.

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Stories to make you sparkle at your next job interview

Here's how to tell stories to make you sparkle at your next job interview. Do you have an interview coming up? Are your communication skills up to scratch? Got your stories ready and good to go? Things like…

“Can you tell me about a time …?” “How do you approach a situation when…?” “Describe to me what you’ve done for…”

Ring any bells?

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