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One experience that always sticks with me is asking a client what their worst source of greatest conflict, that was harming their ability to get the results they needed. After a bit of thought, they said a particular team.  I asked, “What is wrong with the team?”  Client: “They will not do the work we …

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I was talking to my brother-in-law, who was talking to his tiler who was talking to his brother who was employed by a top UK car manufacturer. His brother works remotely. If he does not have any activity on his laptop for more than 15 minutes, he gets a message asking him why he is …

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My wife likes a rom-com and some time ago we watched a film called “the break-up”. There’s not much I remember from the film (hello Jennifer Anniston!) but an argument the couple had did stick in my mind. It went something a little like this: Him: what do you want from me? Her: I want …

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Well first you need to determine what you want. I know that sounds stupid, but do you really know? I find new year’s resolutions fascinating. Each of us have a yearning to be better, yet we often set goals for ourselves that we immediately fail at. My amazing wife decided she was not going to …

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For those that wish to, you can now book your vaccine through the NHS App! This feature was added at 11 today and represents a lot of work behind the scenes. As I said last week, when leading I will always strive to create the “one team” effect. It doesn’t matter where you belong on …

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If you work in any size business, you have come across the frustration of having to rely on other teams to complete what your teams need to do. What is the best way of ensuring things go as smoothly as possible? One trick I use is to silently be grateful to them for what they …

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How do you get employees to perform at their best, delivering what’s needed, with minimal oversight? Not so simple, is it? To help us, we are going to consider Self Determination Theory (SDT), which looks at how the social environment an individual is in affects what type of motivation they have and how this affects …

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I was fantasising about a new Outlook feature today. No really, I  am that sad! Here was my fantasy, whenever you create a new meeting event, there is a little box showing the estimated meeting cost. This cost should double as you double the length of the meeting and also double when you add people …

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