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Developing Emotional Agility and Overcoming Your “Inner Chatter”
Developing Emotional Agility & Overcoming Your “Inner Chatter” What to do when you become your own worst enemy, and how to overcome to win over yourself. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit...
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The Three Key Determinants of Business Performance
The Three Key Determinants of Business Performance Having two out of three is not good enough… by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions There are three key determinants for business performance...
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Two Questions to Attain and Maintain Focus
Two Questions To Attain and Maintain Focus Achieving and maintaining focus is a key skill in modern business. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a time-poor environment in which more...
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Measuring Performance Doesn‘t Help, Measuring How You Perform Does
Measuring Performance Doesn‘t Help, Measuring How You Perform Does! It is not what you do that matters, but how you do it that does! by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Significant effort,...
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What Do Effective Leaders Do?
What Do Effective Leaders Do? The one thing effective leaders do. Do you do this too? by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions When you ask people what do effective leaders do you will get a...
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The Leadership Shift
The Leadership Shift How leaders need to change how they lead to succeed. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions The demands on leadership have changed over recent years, but many leaders have...
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The Four Most Important Words Employees Need To Hear
The Four Most Important Words Employees Need To Hear How to get your people to engage with you. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bill...
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The Challenge of Business Speeding Up
The Challenge of Business Speeding Up It.is not how fast business goes that matters, it is how and if you can keep up! by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions The pace of doing business is...
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The Only Two Ways of Making Money – Bundling and Unbundling
The Only Two Ways of Making Money – Bundling & Unbundling Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts anymore? by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions When we look at some of the changes...
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Discipline Without Punishment
Discipline Without Punishment “We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment, Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone” – Zig Ziglar by...
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How Starbucks Helped Its Employees and Customers Through the Recent...
Millions of people and businesses have been impacted, directly or indirectly, by the recent stockmarket drops in China and elsewhere. It is a cause of concern with over $1 trillion being wiped from...
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Are You in Control?
There is a simple, but useful tool that helps you to understand how people respond to situations, and to anticipate their likely behaviour. It can also help you identify those who are likely to be...
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Reduce the Fear
People often experience fear and concern over what is happening or not happening as they perceive it. As a leader, how do you manage fear? A good piece of advice from Olivia Blanchard chief economist...
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Take a Breath
When you get stressed you need to be able to take a moment out to gather your thoughts and regroup. A good sign that you need to do this is when you find that your mind is busy “chattering”. You are...
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Your Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence
You have limited time, resources and energy to expend on getting work done, projects completed and achieving the results you are looking for. As such you need to be able to use these limited and...
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Trust “Taxes”, the Costs of a Lack of Trust
Trust taxes are costs that you incur when there is little or no trust. When trust goes down, speed also goes down and cost goes up. This is a “tax” – and this tax can double the cost of doing...
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Addressing a Lack of Trust
Often a lack of trust, within teams or the business overall, is not always well addressed. Creating trust creates “dividends” for the business, and a lack of trust creates “taxes” for the business....
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The Power of Three
When we work with others such as employees or customers we often use a binary approach – yes or no, A or B, take it or leave it, ‘my way or the highway ‘. I am sure you can think of many other...
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The Power of Framing
Frames are a powerful tool that allow you to define how a situation, event or occurrence can be viewed. If you set the frame, you control the conversation; if you control the conversation, you can...
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Using the Buddy System
Anybody who has been scuba-diving will be familiar with the buddy system. You never dive alone, you always have a diving buddy – somebody who is there to help you and support you should you need it,...
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