11 Surprising Habits of Powerful Leaders by Dr Travis Bradberry It's easy to mistakenly assume that powerful people never ask for help from anybody. "Asking for help when you don't know the answer or can't do it all by yourself is not a sign of weakness; it's a sign...
Team communications
TEAM COMMUNICATIONS – see me, see you, see us – if you have a behavioural preference profile use that information What should others do to communicate with you effectively and what shouldn’t they do? How can you effectively use what you want others to do when they...
A Mental Trick to Help with Challenging Conversations
A Mental Trick to Help with Challenging Conversations by Liane Davey published in Harvard Business Review Imagine the colleague with whom you have a very challenging relationship, the person who makes the most innocuous conversation tense and uncomfortable. Regardless...
Live and Learn: transpersonal coaching
Live and Learn: transpersonal coaching 4 exercises from Sir John Whitmore author of ‘Coaching for Performance’ (you can download the document in PDF) Getting started: Find a peaceful location Create some quiet time Paper and something to write with The wish to...
Listening Skills – a fun exercise to discover how well you listen
Listening Skills – a fun exercise to discover how well you listen Thank you to the colleague who recommended this exercise Each question will be read twice. The answers are at the bottom of the doc. No peaking! Questions A simple arithmetic problem – divide 40 by a...
10 Top Challenges of Blended Learning
10 Top Challenges of Blended Learning by David Smith from Redtray Blended learning – what is it? Mix of learning environments using best delivery methodologies available David splits the 10 challenges into technological, organisational and instructional impacts....
World Cafe – How to run a World Cafe
World café A world café is a structured conversational process for knowledge sharing in which groups of people discuss a topic at several small tables like those in a café. Some degree of formality may be retained to make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak. A...
World Cafe Guidelines infographic
Within each of us is a hidden store of energy.Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.Within each of us is a hidden store of courage.Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge.Within each of us is a hidden store of...
Virtual need trust or no team
No Trust = No Team by Jim Citrin Influencer Here is the Formula for Building Cohesive Relationships Virtually Our research on virtual collaboration has found that top-performing virtual teams report higher levels of trust than teams that are less successful. Trust is...