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Here you’ll find inspiration and practical advice 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 role or career, learning how to get promoted and understanding your strengths, skills and values.
How to boost your confidence by dressing up yourself and your mindset
Everyone has a wobble, a crisis of confidence. This is a story about what one of my role models did when that happened to her.
Colleen was one of my teaching tutors at Uni.
She was creative, had a glint in her eye in the best kind of way and made good teaching look really easy.
How to support others
Attention: the following may positively improve the quality of your relationships.
A story about mushrooms, one of the best no nonsense cooks, and taking your time.
Why leaders should ask questions
“If the day I came out of your tummy is called my birthday, what is the day called when I went into your tummy?” I reckon there was quite a pause, then.
You can imagine that was a special mother and son conversation...
Kids are curious. It’s how they learn. And they ask lots of questions.
Experimenting with coaching
Life can be full of big questions. Like, is this soup or is it a facemask?
It’s getting a bit darker as November draws near and I was craving something comforting and in the mood to do a bit of cooking.
Did I want to find a recipe and line up my ingredients on the kitchen worktops or did I want to be a bit cavalier and chuck in a bit of this and a bit of that, tasting as I went along.
How to do peer coaching
Curious how peer coaching can help out your people? Here are 2 great peer coaching examples that create space, reflection time and build trust between people and across the organisation.
The first is called Talking Partners. Each morning two workmates get together to do 3 things:
The benefits of playing games
Why do we love to play games? And is it all a bit of fun? Or are there serious things we can learn?
Research shows that when we’re playing a game we’re the best versions of ourselves.
How roleplaying develops empathy
Don’t dismiss or underestimate roleplaying in learning new communication skills.
There’s real power in ‘being’ someone else - even for 5 minutes.
The benefits of asking for help
The steel covers from man holes got stolen making the walk home a bit dicey, “anti-trouble emulsion” was sold in chemists and mutton was on every menu. My first few days in the city had been educational but I was ready for something different.
I had an appointment to meet someone new. At an interview. The conversation was flowing, we were laughing together and it looked like a good match. Then Jayne paused. “Wow. You really don’t know what you’re doing, do you?"
I smiled and nodded “I really don’t. That’s why I placed the advert.”