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• 7 Daily Think Positive Health Tips
  A few years ago, the UK Government ran a health campaign called Small Change, Big Difference based on Cambridge University research showing that small improvements in behaviour - such as eating an extra piece of fruit a day, or taking the stairs rather than the lift - can result in years of extra life expectancy.
  Published 28Mar2011, viewed 162 times

• Look At Your Bank Balance Sheet And Think Positive
  The list of good intentions when it comes to money is endless: start a savings account, start a pension, spend less on luxuries, stop using your credit card, clear your credit card, clear your overdraft, check your statements more regularly, pay your mortgage off early, stop wasting money...
  Published 13Apr2011, viewed 143 times

• Your Think-Positive Habits
  Do you have a habit you wish you could change? Do you find yourself falling back into old, unhelpful patterns without even realising it? Don't worry, you can think positive if you want to. Some research suggests it takes 21 days to stop a habit. Others, such as NLP expert Paul McKenna, believe we can change in as little as 7 days
  Published 06Apr2011, viewed 113 times

• Looking for New Positive Opportunities
  Have you ever caught yourself thinking or saying "I never seem to get lucky.", "I always miss out on opportunities.", "I have no other options." and other such expressions of limiting beliefs?So how can you train yourself to 'think positive' and spot more opportunities? Knowing how you have trained your brain to actually miss opportunities is a good place to start.
  Published 28Mar2011, viewed 130 times

• Retune Your Brain to Think Positive
  Most of us have had the experience of feeling incredibly positive about an event, a person, or an outcome we have worked hard for, but often that feeling doesn't last. As the event becomes a memory so does the positive feeling. You may recall that as a child you might wake up each morning feeling good about nothing in particular, for no reason at all. Imagine being able to do that every day for the rest of your life.
  Published 22Mar2011, viewed 118 times

• 7 Changes in 7 Days
  The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat Theory without practise is just talk without action; the illusion of progress. This is your 7-step programme of real, positive change. It's time to change your everyday reality for the better.
  Published 14Mar2011, viewed 129 times

• Think Positive and Change for the Better
  We all know successful, positive, happy people. We often call them "lucky", but suppose luck is just a concept, an idea, a myth? What if these people who are successful, positive and happy are not lucky at all? What if they create their own "luck" through using a 'think positive' attitude?
  Published 09Mar2011, viewed 146 times

• Think Positive in Today's Reality
  Today's reality can seem very negative if you let it. With the news being about the recession, redundancies, inflation, sometimes it can feel as if there is a lot of bad news around. Negativity is contagious, just like the seasonal flu and too much bad news can leave you feeling down. The good news is that you can also catch a positive attitude, and not only does thinking positive get you better results, it also makes you feel better!
  Published 28Feb2011, viewed 182 times

• Think Positive With Your Your New Year Resolutions
  Few weeks into 2011 and how are your New Year's resolutions? Were they realistic? Did you set yourself up for failure or success? Now is the time to take stock and keep yourself on track with a 'think positive' attitude. But Let's think positive. How do we succeed?
  Published 22Feb2011, viewed 114 times

• Think Positive
  More and more, thinking positively is your first and best response to modern life. As the pressures mount - whether in our work or our personal life - your state of mind, your attitude is crucial.
  Published 20Jun2010, viewed 165 times

• Staff Opinions - What Are Your People Thinking?
  For the average senior executive (if there is such a thing) the larger the organisation in which you do business, the chances are the less you really know about what people think.
  Published 29May2010, viewed 139 times

• Office Politics
  Politics is not just about elections. For senior executive and junior administrator alike, the workplace is full of politics. People choosing what to say, how and when to say it and to whom. All with a specific outcome in mind. Alliances are forged. Supporters are rallied.
  Published 22May2010, viewed 167 times

• The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Problem-Solving
  Every executive or senior business manager has problems to solve. They may be your own or you may be coaching a colleague. It might be sales, turnover, team performance, marketing strategy, customer complaints, the list goes on. However, often the bigger problem is how to solve the problem to the satisfaction of others: customers, staff, shareholders, etc. They all have different interests depending on their stake in the problem at hand.
  Published 15May2010, viewed 185 times

• Workplace Assertiveness
  Business depends on good communication. In order to work together, Production must understand Design; Marketing must understand the customers; senior executives must understand everything
  Published 12May2010, viewed 146 times

• What Drives Us?
  Lots of factors drive us to do things in life. Look at any executive or colleague in your business - or look at yourself - and ask why they might have chosen design, production, marketing, etc. On a day-to-day level, it can be difficult to understand why people sometimes respond the way that they do. As ever, by taking a think positive approach, we can find a tool to help with that job.
  Published 30Apr2010, viewed 142 times

• Project Management - Basic Principles
  Project management is a key business skill for today's executive. However, a whole industry has sprung up around it and although projects can be complicated, sometimes the jargon doesn't make it sound any simpler: GANTT charts, PERT, Critical Path Analysis, PRINCE2, it's easy to feel daunted.
  Published 25Apr2010, viewed 252 times

• Career Management - Making Your Movie
  Recent years have seen successful executives increasingly realise that the best succession planning in business is a combination of external recruitment and growth of internal talent. In these times of economic downturn, making the most of what you have got is common sense.
  Published 21Apr2010, viewed 197 times

• Emotional Intelligence
  Some executives are better at budgets, analysis, research; the logical stuff. Some, on the other hand, are better at relating to people, motivating their team, gaining an understanding of how customers might think.
  Published 20Apr2010, viewed 225 times

• Training & Development - Who is Responsible?
  Training and development (also labelled as "learning and development") is always acknowledged as crucial to the success of any business; both in-house and outsourced; whether training courses, on-line learning or executive coaching.
  Published 06Mar2010, viewed 191 times

• An Introduction to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  In the workplace environment, as managers and executives we often find that our best business tool is an understanding of people; how they operate, how they respond, what drives and influences them. However, the sheer unpredictability of individuals can lead to frustration when their motivations and preferences are in conflict with our own.
  Published 29Mar2010, viewed 225 times

• Dealing with Difficult Customers & Clients
  As we are all aware, our biggest difficulties and frustrations tend to come from people rather than things. Let's agree to view that as the inevitable flipside to all their good features.
  Published 20Feb2010, viewed 195 times

• Workplace Stress
  Stress at work appears to be one of those issues that never quite goes away. A Health & Safety Executive (HSE) survey states that in 2008/09 up to 415,000 people believed they were experiencing workplace stress at a level that was making them ill.
  Published 15Mar2010, viewed 560 times

• Image Management
  The corporate environment tells us that performance is important. We have performance targets, performance reviews and performance-related pay. However, performance is not all there is, there are also unwritten rules in every organisation.
  Published 09Mar2010, viewed 169 times

• Your Network
  There may be times when you feel stuck. Sometimes you're missing a vital piece of the puzzle. Sometimes you're just having a bad day and need a little help. Well think positive; that's what your network is for.
  Published 09Mar2010, viewed 176 times

• Managing Your Time
  Time: everybody has the same amount but nobody has enough. Sometimes it flies, sometimes it drags, and it always passes at the same steady rate. We talk of 'saving' time and 'spending' time as if it was money (and of course, there is the common phrase, "Time is money!") but in fact with every hour that passes we are using our time, hour by hour. The only valid question is whether we are using it to do the things we want and need to do.
  Published 27Feb2010, viewed 163 times

• Coaching a Colleague
  With a 'think positive' attitude to life, you may find that you stand out in the workplace and are noticed. Quite often this can lead to new opportunities and sometimes - because people hope your attitude is contagious - you will be asked to pass on your skills and knowledge to a colleague.
  Published 27Feb2010, viewed 186 times

• Team Dynamics
  People are not the same - obvious perhaps, but true - and in any workplace team there will be a wide variety of types, preferences, attitudes, skills, knowledge, etc. All these differences will interact together and produce different team behaviours. Ultimately, the effectiveness and efficiency of your team will depend on whether these differences work together or against each other.
  Published 20Feb2010, viewed 236 times

• Self-Awareness
  How well do we really know ourselves? What do other people see when they look at us? Who are we, really? These questions all focus on the issue of our self-awareness. But why should we want to be more self-aware?
  Published 20Feb2010, viewed 216 times

• What Gives You Joy?
  Joy is an interesting word. Take a moment and think: what other words do you associate with joy? Perhaps you came up with words such as, delight, pleasure or happiness? Perhaps you agree with the author, Melba Colgrove that Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.?
  Published 13Feb2010, viewed 242 times

• Facilitation Skills
  If you have chaired a meeting in which the objective was to impart information to the participants then you needed presentation skills. If you have chaired a meeting in which the objective was to engage with the participants, encourage their input, discuss options and agree a consensus then you needed facilitation skills.
  Published 13Feb2010, viewed 212 times

• Health & Habits
  When the World Health Organisation was established in 1948, its constitution defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." When you think about your health, do you think in such broad terms?
  Published 07Feb2010, viewed 215 times

• Presentation Skills
  It's a well-worn cliché that the brain never stops working, until the moment you stand up to make a presentation. Yes, they can be nerve-wracking things to do but like anything else you can learn to make good, even great, presentations. Think positive!
  Published 07Feb2010, viewed 228 times

• Everyday Assertiveness
  Have you ever felt dissatisfied after talking to someone? Ever felt, "That could have gone better."? Do you ever walk away realising that you didn't get what you want? That you just weren't very assertive?
  Published 16Jan2010, viewed 160 times

• Dealing with Difficult Colleagues
  Do you sometimes find the workplace difficult? The chances are that the source of the difficulty is a colleague. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with your colleagues (let's think positive, after all) but in any situation with a number of very different people (and we are all different) all trying to achieve a single goal there is bound to be some friction sooner or later
  Published 16Jan2010, viewed 280 times

• Your image - what does it say?
  Your image can be positive or negative. There is 'self-image' (how you see yourself) and 'public image' (how others see you.) They are often quite different but they both depend on similar factors. So if you want to 'think positive' about changing or improving your image, the same positive steps will impact on both.
  Published 09Jan2010, viewed 169 times

• Conflict Management
  Workplace conflict is common. With the increasing complexity of projects, products, marketing, strategy, policy, leadership, etc. it is inevitable that people will have differences of attitude, view, belief, opinion, value or need.
  Published 09Jan2010, viewed 206 times

• Motivating Others
  Motivation often comes down to individuals and circumstances and what works today may not work tomorrow, which is why it can feel difficult and time-consuming. But work done willingly is always better than work done unwillingly and your people's commitment to their work is worth its weight in gold (even at today's prices!) so let's 'think positive' and take a look at motivation.
  Published 02Jan2010, viewed 210 times

• Personal Change (Part Four): Helping you on your way
  Where can you find support for the changes you want to make in your life? Who can help you? Well, there are two answers to that last question: 1) Other people; and 2) You.
  Published 02Jan2010, viewed 188 times

• Personal Change (Part Three): What's holding you back?
  Having conducted a life audit to identify areas for change and set some goals so to give a clear destination for which to aim, it is now time to think (positively, of course!) about turning those goals into action.
  Published 16Dec2009, viewed 192 times

• Leading through Change
  As the manager or executive, your role is to think positive and find a way through change; for both you and your people.
  Published 15Dec2009, viewed 175 times

• Think Positive in your Life
  What do you really want from your life? Have you got it? Have you unlocked your full potential or are you still looking for the key? There may be several locks on your potential: ability, opportunity, motivation, but the first key you need is always attitude. Without a positive frame of mind, you may not even find the door. Thinking positively is crucial to your success.
  Published 10Dec2009, viewed 382 times

• Working through Change
  If you work within an organisation, you are subject to change. Of course, this is true just by being alive but the workplace is where change most often feels like something that is beyond our control. Whether it is the computer system, the entire staffing structure or even just the location of the water-cooler, the old cliché that change is constant has never felt more true.
  Published 09Dec2009, viewed 342 times

• Think Positive in your Work
  Do you remember a time when you were more enthusiastic in your work? Even passionate? When you felt you could make a difference? When every day was another opportunity? If that has faded over time, perhaps it's time to think positive. Would you like to feel that way again?
  Published 09Dec2009, viewed 331 times

• Balancing your Targets
  KPIs fulfil an important function: they help an organisation define what constitutes success and then measure to what extent it has achieved that success.
  Published 07Dec2009, viewed 258 times

• Personal Change (Part Two): Setting Goals
  What makes a good goal? Well, first of all: think positive! How you phrase your goals makes a difference to your commitment.Having a goal means having a definite destination in mind. After all, if you don't have a clear idea of where you're going, how will you know when you have arrived? Goals focus your attention on what you want.
  Published 07Dec2009, viewed 183 times

• Personal Change (Part One): Audit your Life
  Our personal development does not stop once we reach adulthood; it merely enters a new phase. The world changes around you and your position in the world changes as you proceed through life. The key is to bring a positive attitude to life and take control of the changes to become who you want to be.
  Published 07Dec2009, viewed 176 times

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