mastering effective meetings to enhance your team’s efficiency
How to Make Your Meetings Count
Uncover the art of impactful meetings.
5 Tips for Being Productive - Business Learning Solutions and management development
5 Tips for Being Productively Smarter
In today's fast-paced world, being productive at work is not only a desirable trait but a necessity for success. As is commonplace for many professionals, you will at some point…
Tips for having excellent conversations - Business Learning Solutions communication skills
Tips for having excellent conversations
Let’s face it, interacting with people in both our professional and private lives is simply about having excellent conversations. So what can we do to make sure those conversations are…
Eliminate your nerves when presenting in English - Janice Haywood coach
How to eliminate your nerves in an instant when presenting
Is it eliminate your nerves when presenting possible? I can tell you that it absolutely is! Yes, we all get nervous about giving a presentation, it’s normal. It’s because we…
How to Deal with Impromptu Speaking Business Learning Solutions
How to Deal with Impromptu Speaking
At some stage in your life and/or career, you will be asked to speak ‘off the cuff’, which is a term in English for giving an impromptu speech – saying…
How to have a difficult conversation Business Learning Solutions
How to have a difficult conversation
It seems that all my blog posts recently have the title ‘How to...’. Sorry to be predictable with this one, but ‘how to have a difficult conversation’ really is the…
How to build excellent relationships
How to build excellent relationships
I recently gave a training course on managing relationships at work and thought it would be nice to adapt the section on the actions we can take to build relationships for this blog post.
It seems so obvious that having good working relationships leads to higher productivity yet many people don’t make this direct link. Good relationships lead to more innovation and creativity at work as people feel confident enough to express themselves, time consuming, energy draining obstacles such as office politics and back stabbing are removed and of course, if you want to progress in your career, a good relationship with your boss is fundamental.
So what can we do to build better relationships at work? Here are some ideas. (more…)
The essentials of an effective meeting
The essentials of an effective meeting
We hear so much about the desirability of effective meetings. But how many meetings are truly effective and what do we mean by effective? Effective meetings leave you energised and…
Leadership and that ‘vision thing’
Leadership and that ‘vision thing’
It goes without saying that having a vision is a necessary quality of an effective leader or leadership team; followers can’t follow without a vision to follow!
But the best visions that work are the simple ones. They work because they demonstrate three things:
- Where we are going and why that is relevent to each individual.
- How exactly we will get there and that getting there is possible.
- What the vision means to each person and this is communicated well.