HOW TO MANAGE UP

HOW TO MANAGE UP   Do you know how to ‘manage’ your boss? It is so important to know how and when to discuss important issues that affect you, your career, your glide-path, or anything else that requires your manager’s input, consideration or permission. There...

INFLUENCING OTHERS

INFLUENCING OTHERS Having influence over people means that you have the ability to gain support for your opinions, views, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, goals and objectives by using language to persuade people to buy into your way of thinking. If you make an effort to...

GOSSIP

GOSSIP Gossip can be defined as idle, malicious, slanderous or destructive talking or writing about another person or situation with the intention to hurt them, regardless of fact. Gossip can be true or false, but it is still gossip.  It is by far the most common...

COMMUNICATE WITH INTEGRITY

COMMUNICATE WITH INTEGRITY How do you respond when there is conflict or a stressful situation? Do you avoid the subject or person?  Do you get angry?  Do you go into denial? Communicating with integrity means to show more compassion and respect toward our conversation...

AUTHENTICITY

AUTHENTICITY The dictionary defines authentic as: ‘genuine,’ ‘real,’ ‘trustworthy’ and ‘undisputedly credible.’ Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be viewed as genuine and real and therefore trustworthy and undisputedly credible? Being your authentic self means that you are...

YOUR IMAGE

YOUR IMAGE When we first meet people we judge them within seconds of meeting them – from how successful, capable, creative and intelligent they are to how much money they earn and what car they must be driving.   Your mind is practically made up – and...