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The Benefits of Aligning Corporate Mission with an Individual’s Purpose

A company with a well-defined purpose and passionate employees who share it can unleash a massive boost of employee enthusiasm that can only be born when purpose and passion align. Unfortunately, this is a 'free' resource that most companies of all sizes are not tapping into nearly enough. Wayne is among ...

Self Image = Results

Your self image is determining your results. Now maybe you've never seen your identity as directly linked to the results you've achieved or will go on to achieve. In essence we can't outperform our sense of self. Well you can but only for a short while and then, like an ...

Spotlight on Gordon Brown’s Leadership

In Gordon's own words: "You can read all the different reports but the central issue is: do we have the self-belief and confidence in ourselves as a country to solve the problems that every other country faces? We are focused and I believe Britain should ...

Giving your staff hope

If you are a manager and leader, you need people to manage and lead. People often tend to lump these two activities together as one job description. A big mistake. Although they are inter linked, they are separate functions and need to be treated as such or your efficiency in ...

Finding leaders from within the organisation

Within every organization there is the opportunity for leadership. Most businesses find that finding leadership from within is easier than attracting new leaders. However, sometimes finding someone from inside to lead can be difficult. Any business that is thriving is doing so because of strong leadership and if it is not ...

The Hero’s Journey

The Hero's Journey - well we're all on one, although we usually call it life. Yet within our life we have multiple chapters or mini hero's journey's. And for that matter so does an organisation. Who am I and why am I here, are two questions we are in a permanent ...

Who experiences the highest level of job satisfaction?

Do you think that the co-worker who's usually smiling is a happier employee than the one who seems distant or neutral? You might just be wrong if you chose the smiling employee. Job satisfaction measures more than outward appearances. One employee may be better at hiding distress than another, so what ...

Building a values based organisation

Jim Green CEO of Kemps Inc was recently talking to MBA students about the importance of building a values based organisation. ...."He also encouraged the listeners in their levels of leadership. “Every one of us is a leader at some level of impact,” he said. Leaders need to “spread ...

Self Belief + Talent = Success

I haven't avidly been watching Britain's Got Talent, but I catch the odd episode and over the last couple of years I've noticed a theme. Talented person comes on but lacks self confidence. Simon Cowell goes through a few facial expressions, Amanda perhaps sheds a few tears and then we ...

Keeping Commitments & Building Trust

How often do you keep commitments that you make to others? Saying yes when you know you won't, or saying yes to a deadline knowing you can't make that. Are we even conscious that we've just made a commitment - a promise if you like? And then we sometimes wonder ...