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Reinventing Yourself in 2016

Reinventing YourselfIt is December 25, 2015. In just a few days, you have an opportunity to start afresh with New Year resolutions. Maybe it’s the weight you wanted to lose, the new skill you wanted to acquire or the leap you wanted to make to start your own business. Now ask yourself how many times you have honored your resolution in all the years that have passed since you started thinking about some strategy for reinventing yourself.

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The Power of Rephrasing

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer – Robert Brault

RephrasingBefore you can fix a problem or decide the course of action to take in solving a difficult issue, it helps to first of all spend some time defining what the problem is. It was after all Einstein who is known to have said “if I had one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution“…

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Better Decision Making – A Little Known Secret

Better Decision MakingImagine that you are approaching a traffic light and need to make a decision whether to stop or move full speed ahead. This becomes easier to decide when you are given sufficient information – the light is red, orange or green. But how do you decide if the traffic lights don’t work for some reason. Now you need to process different bits of information about the traffic that’s coming from the left, the right, the pedestrians…

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Interview Questions that Reveal More

Based on an extract from a Business Insider web article. The original article was written by Alison Griswold and Vivian Giang.

Interview QuestionsSmart and successful entrepreneurs including the likes of Richard Branson of Virgin and Tony Hsieh of Zappos know that interview questions like “What’s your biggest strength?” and “What’s your biggest weakness?” don’t produce revealing answers. That’s why they steer clear of these cliché queries and instead ask more meaningful ones. Many executives have their one favorite go-to question that reveals everything they need to know about a job candidate. Here is a list of the top 10 questions…

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Organizational Success – The Ultimate Secret

fun and recreationRead any book about organizational success – whether in a multinational or a small business – and the key to organizational success is related to something business-like: leadership, sales,  customer care, profitability, etc. Any reference to recreation and fun is almost always as an add-on. For example, a company retreat with balloons and treasure hunts once a year  or a sports day or  a company lunch once a quarter. HR managers lecture line managers on the need to have such events so their fun-starved staff can get a chance to “loosen up”. Yet staff engagement remains low….

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SCARF Model for Collaboration and Influence

The SCARF Model was originally proposed by David Rock of the Neuro-Leadership Institute and has been acclaimed as one of the best and original ideas in management over the last 15 years. 

SCARF ModelIn a world of increasing inter-connectedness and rapid change, there is a growing need to improve the way people work together. The study of the brain is starting to provide some key insights that can be applied in the real world – for example in the work place. Social neuroscience explores the biological foundations of the way humans relate to each other and to themselves  in terms of emotional regulation, attitudes, stereotyping, empathy, status, fairness, collaboration, persuasion, morality, compassion, deception and trust…

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