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Articles

We have written some articles over the years that you might find useful to support your learning. These articles are all written in the form of 5 things you might want to experiment with. I hope you find them useful.

  • Resilience and Self Care


    Job insecurity and a desire to succeed can drive us to work at capacity to demonstrate our worth to the organisation and in this global, electronic world there is no clear demarkation between work and play.
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  • Problem Solving


    In this article I will describe five approaches that I regularly use as part of a coaching discussion for you to consider. Why not print these off, go somewhere quiet and take some time out to think through a current challenge.
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  • Presence


    Presence is a difficult thing to describe but we all know people that have it, they radiate something from the inside out, we trust what they say and we want to hear more. We know what they stand for and they are not afraid to be different if they are being true to themselves.
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  • Peak Performance


    In 2001 Harvard Business Review published an article called the Making of a Corporate Athlete looking at what makes some people flourish under pressure and others fold.
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  • Mindfulness for Leaders


    Mindfulness is the ability to bring awareness into every moment of our lives so we become much more present and aware of what we are sensing, thinking and doing in each moment and can observe the consequences of our actions.
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  • Managing Conflict


    Conflict situations are those situations in which the concerns of two people appear to be incompatible.
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  • Managing Emotions for Peak Performance


    In this article I share with you my simple way of thinking about what emotions are, how feelings relate to emotions and how we can begin to become more aware of our emotions and have more choice with our responses.
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  • Goal Setting and Achievement


    Thinking about the goals we want to set for ourselves can sometime be a rather dry, paper exercise where we sit staring into space for a little while before trying to craft something meaningful on a piece of paper.
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  • Communication


    Communication is such a big topic and you will almost certainly have read many articles on how to communicate effectively and the importance of body language etc (in fact I’ve written several!).
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  • Appreciative Enquiry (AI)


    Appreciative Inquiry is a technique for focusing on ‘strengths’ and ‘what is working’ rather than problems, issues and weaknesses. It was developed by David Cooperrider.
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