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Why it’s important for leaders to keep their word and do what they say they’ll do!
For many leaders today, organizational life is like being a hamster on a wheel. We are working extremely hard but we are getting nowhere fast! We make promises with good intentions but then don’t deliver on these. This hits the results we achieve and the personal...
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There are 5 major reasons why it is so difficult to change!
When we initiate a personal campaign to improve ourselves, it takes longer than we thought. Our need for instant gratification trumps our patience and discipline. 1) It’s more difficult than we thought - improvement is hard, if it were easy, we’d already be better… 2)...
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Accepting self-responsibility and taking action!
One of my key philosophies is accepting self-responsibility and taking action. The problem with most people today is not the absence of knowledge, it is the absence of doing. The starting point for achieving anything is accepting the self-responsibility for doing it. ...
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The confidence you will gain by developing your personal brand!
One of the most important value-added areas that I work with my clients today is in helping them develop their own personal brand. Or as I prefer the put it, helping them define, ‘what do you get when you get me?’ A personal brand is not a goal to be achieved, it is a...
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Get Your Car out of the Garage!
A great many people live in the self-imposed imprisonment of low expectations about life. I call this, the ‘car being stuck in the garage’, it’s not moving so it is going nowhere. How do we change this? Accept self-responsibility and take action! Pick a goal and start...
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10.5 things to ponder over the weekend!
1. Life has no remote control…get up and change it yourself! 2. The phrase, ‘don’t take this the wrong way’…has a zero percent success rate! 3. I’ve decided not to be pessimistic… it wouldn’t work anyway! 4. Five out of every three people… have trouble understanding...
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Have you identified what your strengths are yet?
I started out many years ago as an apprentice baker. I quickly realized that the cakes I made would make a sword-swallower gag! I then moved into the field of accountancy, and I then realized that there are three types of people in the world, those that can count and...
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Turn your people into innovation champions!
Today, more than ever innovation is vital for the future of our organization. Leaders who believed that just doing the same things faster and cheaper would be sufficient for success, now acknowledge that this approach will not work anymore. The landscape has changed....
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The 7-second feedback – engaging the people in your organization to be more effective!
A question that a lot of my clients ask me is, “Mark, how do I engage my people to work more effectively in the organization, what’s the plan, what do I need to do?” My immediate response is always that, the one key tool that costs absolutely nothing to implement, and...
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Mark Donovan’s High Performance Development Programme 2023
Mark Donovan’s High-Performance Development Programme 2023 “Of all the courses, training and development that I’ve done in the last 30 years, this programme was the most relevant and interesting. But most importantly it had an immediate impact on my productivity, my...
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