Picture the scene you finally get the opportunity you’ve been waiting for! Then suddenly you’re walking into the office on day one, and that confidence you were full of earlier has disappeared… Has this happened to you? I know it’s happened to me on more than one occasion throughout my career Being authentic, I have […]
Today’s podcast relates to our self-awareness as leaders… or should I say lack of it! Tell me, have you ever sat in a meeting and wanted to bury your head in your hands because of the way someone was behaving… and that someone really ‘should’ have known better? I mean they’re a leader after all! […]
Interviewer: Welcome to the Learn Grow Succeed Podcast, and a special welcome to Anne Parker. Anne is a learning manager in a large multinational organisation, working on learning strategies and skill-based training that is delivered across the globe. Anne has also developed a unique training programme on how to be successful in relocation, which I […]
Continuing our theme on leadership this month and celebrating International Women‘s Day, I want to share and celebrate a few amazing women with lessons for us all on leadership, and living our lives to the full. From business icons, charity workers and political leaders they have all made my list. Please note this list is not indicative of any of my political […]
April heralds Stress Awareness Month; an occurrence many of us experience at some point in our working lives. Stress Awareness Month takes place every April since it first launched 27 years ago in 1992. Throughout this period, teams of experts aim to increase public awareness about stress; something most of us experience at some point in our working lives. This includes highlighting the causes of stress, the negative effects […]
With this month celebrating both International Women’s Day and World Leadership Day we thought it would be appropriate to highlight some of the critical leadership skills today’s modern leader requires in their ‘toolbox’; regardless of gender! Leaders have always faced challenges, including competition, supply and demand, cash flow versus profit, underperforming teams, patent expiry and much more. However the world is changing, and we live in a time full of complexity that throws up even more problems for leaders […]
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 […]
