Assertiveness: Why it’s Hard to Just Say No
- Assertiveness
It’s really hard to say no for a lot of reasons – reasons that unassertive people believe are true usually with very little evidence.
- Article
Resources
Professional Development and Training
- Development
Personal development in professional skill sets is the sort of training we think of now as essential!
- Article
How Do You Start Goal Setting?
- Purpose
To achieve true success and happiness we must allow ourselves to dream about the things we really want!
- Article
Soft Skills CPD Can Make a Real Difference
- Soft Skills
Many organisations have continuing professional development plans for soft skills development and embrace CPD as part of those plans!
- Article
Conflict Resolution
- Conflict
When our world views are really different. Other people’s behaviour can not only seem puzzling, it can seem downright bizarre, confusing and most importantly… WRONG!
- Blog
Successful Personal Development – How to Think Like Lincoln
- Development
Idea – Over Simplify – Connect the Dots. How thinking like Lincoln can help you on the way to Successful Personal Development!
- Article
Continuous Professional Development
- Development
Continuing Professional Development means learning interpersonal skills that help make you a person other people want to be around!
- Article
Communication: Gossip and the Rumour Mill
- Communication Skills
Rumours really are a form of gossip and humans do derive a great deal of pleasure from gossip, whether it’s about colleagues, pop stars, royalty or the neighbour across the road.
- Blog
Working Toward Your Goals
- Purpose
Are you moving towards or against what you want?
- Article
Counselling Skills and their Use in Training
- Management Skills
Good counselling is flexible rather than fixed to a rigid structure: the counsellor sees what a client needs and is able to provide that flexibility.
- Blog
Effective Interpersonal Skills Training
- Interpersonal Skills
The skill is in providing the appropriate training to fit the group of people who are there at the time!
- Blog
Experience Makes The Difference for Women In Business Success
- Women in Leadership
Experiential training programs aim to get more women leaders in top management positions.
- Blog
Can Leaders Be Made?
- Leadership Skills
The question still arises – are leaders born or can they be ‘made’? Yes and yes is what I’ve decided.
- Article
People Skills Training is Not Enough
- Train the Trainer
Organisations spend a lot of money on training. I fear that if they looked back over five years at the changes in behaviour that their training had brought, they would say, “Not enough”.
- Blog
Easy Tips for Understanding Children's Misbehaviour
- Interpersonal Skills
Improving or shaping children’s behaviour is easy if first, you can understand the purpose of their misbehaviour and then change your response.
- Blog
Tailored Training – Getting the Best from your People
- Business Development
Invest in technology, invest in AI, invest in new systems. All help. Invest in your people and they and you will thrive!
- Blog
Storytelling: Our Five Top Tips
- Storytelling
How to boost your speeches and presentations with the emotive power of storytelling!
- Tips
Resilience at Work
- Resilience
Wouldn’t be great if everyone could bounce back from adversity, just like that?
- Podcast
Presentation: Fear Of Failure
- Presentation
How to deal with this natural and common anxiety when confronted with the challenge of making presentations!
- Article
Public Speaking – Top 5 Questions Answered
- Speaking
There are a number of questions consistently asked in relation to public speaking and presentations.
Here are a few of the most common questions, along with the answers.
- Article
Professional Speaking: Five Common Pitfalls
- Speaking
Watch out for these everyday professional speaking challenges that can impair your speeches and presentations
- Article
Speaking with Confidence: Our Ten Top Tips
- Speaking
Impact Factory’s Robin Chandler outlines simple methods for speaking with confidence!
- Tips
Effective Presentation Tips: the End is the Beginning
- Presentation
What you say last is what people remember. Use these tips to create compelling endings for your presentations
- Article
Presentation Skills – The First To Know
- Presentation
When a new slide first appears on the screen, all eyes, like moths to the flame, tune to the new image and immediately begin the race to be the first to know what the slide is all about
- Article