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No matter when you read this post on the Excel Communications blog, I suspect your New Year resolutions will have fallen by the wayside.  More irritating if we are still in January too!  There is plentiful evidence out there to suggest that only 5-10% of us stick to our resolutions; not many is it?  So Why Do They Fail?  The reason most of us fail at nailing our resolutions is that they aren’t tied into our bigger life and […]

January celebrates world introverts’ day; the irony of a special day for introverts I’m sure won’t be lost on many of you!  This special day was instigated back in 2011, a year before Susan Cain’s famous TED talk about the power of introverts.  This day was originated as a tongue in cheek way for introverts to rest and recharge after too much enforced socialising over the Christmas and New Year holidays and […]

Employee appreciation – Something we all ‘know’ we should do and yet somehow it still drops off the radar.  Maybe it’s on your to-do list this year; I hope so!  Recently I was chatting to a friend of mine who works with the recruitment sector.   A current hot topic in this market is employer branding, culture and the challenge of attracting […]

Over the last eighteen months, we have presented a series of webinars on the ever-changing discipline of leadership. If you would like to access our past webinar archive, you can do that here. The ongoing debate for many organisations we work with here at Excel Communications is what makes a great leader in today’s shifting […]

In the first article of this two-part series on how to incorporate mindfulness into your working day, we talked about what mindfulness is, how it can help wellbeing and started looking at simple, practical ways to build mindfulness into a typical working day. The article has generated a lot of conversation, especially around the various strategies […]

How often do you hear yourself or a colleague say, “I’m so busy, I don’t seem to have time to think”; too often you might say. It can be easy to rush through your days, even life, without taking time to pause and notice what’s happening around you. It reminds me of those car journeys […]

Contributing through others isn’t just the latest leadership fad or objective on your performance review. It’s a researched and documented model that provides a framework on how to improve your impact and influence over time; ideally within your organisation. The Four Stages of Contribution model is based on the research of Drs. Gene Dalton and […]

Managing emotions isn’t easy in any setting, especially in the workplace where the pressure to hit deadlines, a lack of time and resources and all while remaining professional can push people over the edge. Last month I went to see a good friend of mine who revealed that she had experienced a challenging few months. […]

Criticism or developmental feedback, as we prefer to call it here in the Excel office, can help you develop your career. We are all quite sensitive creatures underneath the external armour we sometimes wear out in the big wide world. A consequence of this is that feedback which is delivered to us, though meant to […]