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HALT before a bad decision

Before You Make a Bad Decision, HALT

If you’re worried you’re going to make a bad decision, HALT.  Or more specific, H.A.L.T. Of course we’d like to make good decisions every time, but sometimes we’re human. Sometimes
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How To Tell If Your Messages Are Right

How To Say The Right Thing

Communications has been my entire career. Most of that time was me doing the communicating, but likely as much time was spent writing messages for someone else to say. Did
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The Trust Equation

The Trust Equation

One tool I use over and over in many different workshops is The Trust Equation. It’s a  simple yet clever tool that yields insights into the four aspects that build
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Seven Questions of Change Management

While there are many questions to consider at the beginning of a change management program, here are the basic seven that have always helped me get my head sorted, before
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How to Be Empathic

How To Be Empathetic in Seven Steps

How to be empathetic is one of the most important aspects of communications, as well as to specialty areas such as Design Thinking. (And yes of course, being empathetic is
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Leavitt;s Diamond outlines four independent components of change in any organisation: people, process or tasks, structure and technology

Leavitt’s Diamond

In 1964, American management psychologist Harold Leavitt developed the Diamond Model (now commonly known as Leavitt’s Diamond) as a methodology to analyse and understand the effects a change program would
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Assertiveness Matrix Simple

Being Assertive

‘Being assertive’ is one of those phrases, if not behaviours, that has confused many people over the years, perhaps because there has been little differentiation between assertiveness and its cousin
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How To Deal with Procrastination

There’s a certain irony in my delay writing a post on procrastination. Procrastination is the act – some say ‘art’ – of delaying or postponing tasks or jobs. It’s often
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What To Do If They Say No

The word NO is the simplest form of negativity. We’ve heard the word countless times growing up, working in business, dealing with personal issues. Despite how many times we get that
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