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How To Make The Most Of Your Supervision Session Or Appraisal Supervisions and Appraisals are a golden opportunity to seek clarification and gain information upon your performance and how you are progressing towards your next goal or target. Put simply, the more you know about your performance the more you can gauge how effective you …
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How Can I Improve My Emotional Intelligence? An effective understanding of the key principles of Emotional Intelligence (EI) sets apart the successful manager from the less-than successful manager as working collaboratively with those around you is a central and essential management attribute. So, to make the most of your management style, consider the following tips …
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How To Be The Person You Want To Be We have a vision and driving perception that the person we are here, right now, is the person we will always be and, as such, we are the finished item, the best that we can be. The best in our managerial, professional and personal lives. It …
How To Flourish As A Human Being We all want to be satisfied and happy with our family, personal and work lives, yet finding this, and then developing and flourishing as an individual in all three arenas, is not that easy. The way forward with this conundrum is to focus on the following three areas: …
How To Bring Positivity Into Your Daily Life Being positive is never easy and is always a “work in progress”, something to be constantly worked upon. Try using the following pointers to get more positivity into your life: Being cheerful: this may be a big challenge, but this is down to you to deliver. Whatever …
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Why Am I Failing As A Leader? The job is never easy and you are juggling with a wide range of issues and pressures that you cannot always control: so no surprises that sometimes frustration sets in and failure comes along. The trick is to think about the reasons for that failure and to learn …
What Should Be In Your PERSONAL Mission Statement All organisations need a Mission Statement -it is an essential guide to activity and purpose. Just like any organisation you need to have a Mission Statement for yourself, so that you know where you are going and how you intend to get there. The best way to …
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How To Get Promoted - 5 Key Success Factors To be successful in your workplace, and to really develop your career, you have to focus upon 5 critical areas and to put all of your effort into them in equal measure. These are as follows: Having a growth mindset: this means being solution focused, open …
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The Rules For Personal Growth Growing into the career that you want or the management job that you are chasing is not a quick, ten minute fix and something that needs constant work and refinement. What we really want to achieve takes time and effort but the most successful people around us have got there …
Resilience – You’ve Got This! Failures and crises are an inevitable part of our personal and professional life. They can be devastating, life-changing, and transformative. They can make or break a career, a family, ruin domestic and working relationships and working cultures, and potentially break a business, with detrimental effects for all concerned. Although mistakes …
