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Ep. 5. Overcoming Self-Doubt – Step 1: Awareness
Start overcoming Self-Doubt and boosting confidence with the crucial skill of Awareness

Ep. 4. Brief Intro to each of the Seven Self-Limits
Here’s a quick overview of each of the Seven types of Self-Limits. Includes some guidance on internal dialogue, emotions and other issues to help raise awareness.

3. Why the Seven Self-Limits might stomp on your attempts to change!
Here's a few more tips before we dive in and some warnings about the self-limits that might try to stomp on your attempts to change and improve things!

2. How to use this Programme
If there’s one thing that I almost always cover with my coaching clients, it’s this tool.
Here's how to make it work.

1. Introduction
Introduction to Overcoming the Seven Self-Limits.

When it comes to Success, does Luck matter more than Talent?
Recent research highlighted by the annual Ignoble prizes may show that, when it comes to being successful, luck counts for more than talent.
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3 Handy Ways to Avoid Doing Great Delegation (Part 1/3)
This is the first of three short posts with some handy tips for avoiding the dangers of doing half-way decent delegation

Trust, Responsibility and Accountability
I believe that our leaders should: • Do what they said they would • Do the right things • Be willing to openly justify what they did. Do you agree?

Checklist for leading one on one meetings
2nd in a series of top tips for using one-on-one meetings as a great tool to lead your team members

What doesn’t kill you
New research suggests that we should stop saying "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" - Because it doesn't!

Don’t talk about Doom and Gloom – Act!
Why people often won't listen to problems and risks and how it might better to do guerrilla leadership instead!

The Antidote for too much Snippiness at Work is more Self-Compassion
We're more stressed-out than usual now and might take it out on others at work. The answer is to take better care of ourselves first.

How to get your mindset right for leading one on one meetings
This is the first in a series of top tips for people who want to use one-on-one meetings as a tool for leading the efforts of their team members

Influence – or Crash and Burn
A personal story: All managers need to be influencers too. Otherwise you can't win approval and support for the things you want to do.

When Asking, Telling and Suggesting Still Don’t Get Results
Deciding what to do when someone persistently doesn't deliver at work is actually quite difficult!

The Hierarchy of Soft-Skills
According to Forbes, soft skills have now become crucial success factors at work. But did you know there's also a *hierarchy* to soft-skills?

Six warning signs that your leadership is dangerously boring!
If pressure to deliver has made you a boring leader, don't turn staff and clients into zombies too! Six warning signs to look out for; and what to do about them.

A coaching question
Quite possibly my all-time favourite coaching question: What kind of person are you - at your *absolute* best?