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Resign as the Master of the Universe……
Half of the troubles in my life can still be traced back to saying ‘yes’ too quickly and not saying ‘no’ soon enough’. Beware of PTH: Propensity To Help, it gets us into other people’s business and makes the assumption they can’t help themselves and/or won’t request...
read moreGet 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 no-where. How do we change this? Accept self-responsibility and take action Pick a goal and...
read moreEat the Dessert First
In society today, there is a huge culture of moaning and complaining about what we should have, must have or could have. Is life always fair, no it is not, if life was fair, Elvis would be still alive and all the impersonators would be dead! A wise colleague once...
read moreAre You Just Watering the Plants?
Study after study has shown that most training is a waste of time. Learning new skills and techniques is invaluable, but implementing them, being supported in creating new habits and being held accountable for practising those new skills, is the difference between a...
read moreMark Donovan’s High Performance Leadership Programme
Mark Donovan & Associates Limited ‘helping leaders keep their word and do what they say they’ll do’ “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...
read moreWhy time management is a waste of time.
In my work with senior leaders across various industries, one of the main requests I get is ‘help me get more done with my time’. Many leaders are time efficient, they use ‘to do lists’, diaries and advanced technological tools to help them manage their time. But are...
read moreWhy it’s important for leaders to avoid the deferred life plan
I was reading an interesting book this week, ‘Chasing Daylight’ by Eugene O’Kelly. It tells the story of a high-flying executive who finds out that he only has three months to live after being diagnosed with brain cancer. He realized, all the plans he had and his wife...
read moreWhy it’s important for leaders to keep their word and do what they say they’ll do
For many leaders today, organisational 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...
read moreMy first blog……..
It has taken me a while to do this, too long. I have been trying to figure out some way to communicate with my clients on a regular basis. It reminded me of starting my evening class’s at accountancy college. I was genuinely terrified arriving for that first class. I...
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