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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...
read moreHave 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...
read moreTurn 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....
read moreThe 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...
read moreMark 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...
read moreWhich of these 3 areas are you prioritizing most of your time on?
Leaders basically prioritize their time in three categories. 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 2: What is...
read moreAre you in the driver’s seat of your life or the passenger seat?
We wouldn’t think of getting into a car and not know whether we are going to Dublin or Cork. But many of us become passengers in our own lives. Years go by and we never get out of the car and see where it is going or if it is moving at all. We simply sit in the back...
read more3-part management course
Lesson no.1: A crow was sitting on a tree doing nothing all day long. A small rabbit spotted the crow and said, ‘can I also sit there like you and do nothing all day long?’ The crow said, ‘sure why not?’ So the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow and rested. All...
read more‘Get your car out of the garage’ and take self-responsibility.
There is an old Japanese saying, ‘fall seven, rise eight’. What is hope? One kind of hope is the expectation that tomorrow will be better than today. It is the kind of hope that has us yearning for sunnier weather or a smoother path ahead. It comes without the burden...
read morePeople are attracted to people who care!
When working with my clients, I am always extremely accessible to them. I am open to taking their calls outside of the main days I am working with them. If there is an emergency or crisis, I am open to taking their call on weekends or bank holidays. I sometimes get a...
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