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Which of these 3 areas are you prioritizing most of your time on?
Leaders basically prioritize their time on three categories of items. Category 1: What they find comfortable and enjoyable to do – even though one of their team could probably look after these activities well enough and would get development in doing them. Category...
read moreLabel jars, not people!
An intriguing profession has emerged in business, personality testing. In a short period of time, they have become the high priests of the modern workplace. Offering expert advice on everything from recruitment to career change. One problem is that many of these tests...
read moreIt’s Valentines Day, ask them out on a date!
Whenever we are considering the pursuit of a new stretching goal (asking someone who with like out on a date!) It can be extremely beneficial to ask, ‘what is the worst thing that could happen if I try my best to give this a go and it doesn’t work out?’(they may say...
read moreMark Donovan’s High Performance Leadership Programme
Want to hit the ground running in 2020? Mark's next High-Performance Leadership Programme takes place on February 6th 2020 at the Red Cow Moran Hotel. “This leadership programme provides the tools to effectively manage and lead”, Paula Donnelly, Manager, Freshways....
read moreHave you done your ‘not-to-do list for your future’ yet?
Many of the leaders I work with don’t need to learn what to do, they need to learn what to stop doing. The leaders that will not be successful in their future, will be the ones that say ‘yes’ to everything. If we say ‘yes’ to everything, we are setting ourselves up...
read moreDo you have thinking time in your weekly schedule?
One of the most important areas I work with my clients is getting them to put thinking time into their calendars. I would be a great guy if I always took my own advice! I suggest they put 1 hour of thinking time into their calendar per week. And to make this hour as...
read moreAre you dealing with the symptoms of stress, or the cause of stress?
It has become very clear that many people in our society are under constant and destructive stress. As life for them operates at a pace that offers little time for rest or recuperation. The costs related to stress are astronomical in the health care industry as we...
read moreAre you suffering from Behavioural Insanity?
Many of us are guilty of a form of behavioural insanity. We go into situations all the time. But rely on the same behaviours. Do we assess each situation and think, what am I trying to accomplish? Why is that difficult? Which behaviours in my repertoire are most...
read moreAre you utilizing your greatest opportunity for business performance?
It has become almost a truism today in business that our people resource is of all economic resources, the one least effectively used. Our greatest opportunity for improved economic performance lies in the improvement of the effectiveness of our people in their work....
read moreDo you have an incredible standard of living but a low quality of life?
6575 – this is the number of days in the first eighteen years of our child’s life. No amount of success, money or prestige can buy us one more day. The door of childhood shuts so quickly if our child is ten years old, we have 2922 days left! Most people say that they...
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