I recently completed a course in collaboration with Harvard University, examining the significance of a culture encouraging healthy practices within companies. A part of the course focused on how you can embrace personal health and wellness to ensure strong relationships to flourish. Although, these skills may seem simple, they are often forgotten! I found Dr Elizabeth … [Read more...]
Quick Tips to Create the Perfect Pitch
In the business world at some point, we all have to pitch -- whether that is pitching a new proposal to your team or management team, your business plan to an investor, your product or services to a potential client, or even pitching yourself for a promotion or a new job! At some point, we all need to persuade somebody to embrace our ideas and goals. Streamlining the perfect … [Read more...]
How to Improve Your Online Prospecting
Prospecting and sales are undoubtedly another area of development for many companies, particularly given the shift evident during COVID. Now more than ever, companies and individuals are having to try and source prospects through online means only. This has also meant a change in focus and skill set for some job roles. For some companies, this has drastically altered their … [Read more...]
How to Maintain Your Mental Wellbeing During COVID-19
2020 has certainly been an extraordinary time worldwide. With a second lockdown in full force and the improbability that anything will return to normal for a while, it can be a worrying time for everybody. The dark winter nights and cold days also certainly don’t help. If you're worried about your emotional health and about making it through this tricky winter period, carry … [Read more...]
How to Manage Courageous Conversations at Work – Top 10 Tips
Feedback from my first article, How to Become a Better Leader for your Team, directed me to one topic briefly mentioned in the piece – how do we effectively deliver difficult feedback and manage ‘courageous conversations’. Whether you're running your own business or you're responsible for a team in a bigger corporation, at some point, you inevitably have to manage these … [Read more...]
How to Become a Better Leader for Your Team
It's no secret that one of the most difficult parts of being a manager, at any level, is the ability to effectively lead your team(s). Ironically, it's also an area that companies often neglect, with research from Grovo suggesting as many as 98% of leaders feel they would benefit from more training in this area. Whether you've been managing people for a long time or you're … [Read more...]