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Let's start a new 'pandemic' - one of better listening skills. It will help us all get through these troubling times as well as the good ones that will be returning... What do you think? During this unprecedented point in world history, I want to focus on some key skills that will help us all build better relationships with one another. I hope this will be helpful for families now spending far more time together than 'normal' life usually sees, to co-workers who are now having to work remotely... everyone!

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There is a real challenge in managing staff in an economic downturn.  For many Leaders, the first instinct is to drive everyone harder to ensure that the maximum productivity and return is created. In the short term, this may appear to work but in the medium to long term all it does is fuel stress, increase burnout and create an underlying resentment that can become really corrosive

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I read a survey recently which stated that over 50% of people were dissatisfied with their job for one reason or another. That’s a significant amount of dissatisfaction. At a personal level that is a huge shame. At an organizational level, it is a performance and economic disaster.

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Gina Gardiner is a Two-Time #1 International Best Selling author, Motivational speaker, Empowerment Coach, Transformational Leadership Trainer, NLP Master Practitioner and Coach with well over 30 years’ experience of helping people achieve happiness and success. She is passionate about helping her clients to achieve their full potential – to become genuinely their best self.

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Make Industry Marks Radio-Mini-Talks YouTube Make Industry Marks Communications proudly presents Genuine Power Enhancer for Leaders, Gina Gardiner sharing her mini-version of a radio TED Talk called Discover The Power Of Enlightened Leadership.

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The pleasures and pains of 'Corporate Team Building Activities' It is well known that the strength of people working effectively together is qualitatively stronger than that of the individuals of that team working in isolation. The success of the Corporate Leader is dependent on how well he or she can maximize the potential of those they lead. Any corporate leader who is keen to develop strategies for ongoing growth and success needs to enable their staff not only as individuals but as members of a variety of teams.

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Here's how to have The Hard Conversations Unprofessional conduct or Poor Performance: Unprofessional behaviour, a poor attitude, not coming up with the goods are all issues which most managers have to deal with at some time or other. You can minimize the need to deal with these situations by having clear explicit expectations which are shared from the outset with your team and modelling the behaviour you want etc. Let's assume that you have those things in place and one or more of you staff are disappointing you because of their attitude, behaviour or performance. How should you tackle it?

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How To Negotiate There are many times in our professional and personal lives where we need to find a way forward when two or more parties disagree. There are three possible outcomes - which thanks to the brilliant methodology by Stephen Covey we are all pretty much aware of nowadays. But! They deserve regular re-examination and checking because, in my experience, it can be rare to find leaders actually behaving for the best, win-win solution:

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The Art Of Effective Problem Solving – For You And Your Team There is no doubt that the skill of problem-solving is incredibly useful. All effective leaders are able to find solutions to problems; the greatest leaders are those who develop the skill within every member of their team. They encourage people to see problems as potential opportunities.

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Why delegate? By delegating effectively it will leave the Senior Management of the organisation time to really lead into the future: Delegation offers: Leaders the time to plan strategically The chance for shared responsibility and workload Truly distributed leadership Progression/ succession development

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