Category Archives: Personal Development

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you find any aspect of your job difficult - take it as a sign that you need to improve your skills in that area - make a plan to up-skill.

Do you have all the results you want? Or are you substituting results with excuses? The problem with excuses  or ‘reasons why not’,  is that they prevent us from taking the action that would be needed to achieve the results we want. Think about some…

It can feel really frustrating when someone isn’t doing what they ought to, yet nagging them to do it just seems to make it worse. No one likes being nagged! Nagging will usually come across as a form of verbal attack. Phrases like “Why haven’t…

Marshall Goldsmith wrote a brilliant book with this title, and it sums up a harsh truth about success. The very things that got you to where you are today – the beliefs, habits, and ways of working that helped you grow – might now be…

Confidence is often seen as a nice-to-have, but for business owners and managers, it’s essential.

You’ve probably heard the advice: Eat That Frog! — start your day by tackling the biggest, hardest, most unpleasant task first – from the Brian Tracey book. But what if there’s another way?

Plan tomorrow before you finish today. Make it the team culture to plan for the next day before leaving the office. Tomorrow's plan will increase performance, productivity, clarity of purpose and motivation

It was Stephen Covey who said, “Seek first to understand, then to be understood” in his excellent book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. The reason it’s such valuable advice is that it’s counter-intuitive, and so most people don’t naturally do it. The trap…

Have you ever told yourself, “I’ll start in six months when I’m not so busy”? We’ve all been there. But here’s the hard truth: the way you got this busy now is the same way you’ll still be too busy in six months. Yes, I…

As you identify more and more things you need to do, you soon run out of time. At some point you need to stop doing some things so that you can do other things instead. What would you add to your ‘stop-doing’ list? I regularly…

We’re brought up to have an understanding of what is or is not “reasonable”. Is it reasonable to request loyalty from employees or even customers? All such questions are a matter of opinion.

Executive Coaching can be about performance improvement, behaviour change or leadership coaching. All produce a measurable return on the investment in the short term and especially the long term.

Why don’t we use delegation more? The reasons I often hear are: “I tried it, and it didn’t work…” “It takes longer to delegate than to just do it myself…” “They just don’t listen so they do it the wrong way…” “If I want something…

In everyday life we need knowledge in order to do what we need to do. Many of the basics like how to cook, how to drive, DIY, cleaning, washing, organising the household bills – they all require us to put in some time and effort…

A great way to drive ever better performance is to know and monitor your personal best performance as one or more measures. For example you might focus on a number of sales in a month, a number of calls in a day, the number of…