Meet Yourself
Meet Yourself

Dear Reader, I want you to meet someone you already know but I’m not sure if you’ve been formally introduced to. You may allow yourself a nod and a smile occasionally but you’ve never sat down and properly got to know…yourself. I’m talking about...

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Internal Vacancy: A Champion for Critical Thinking (CT)
Internal Vacancy: A Champion for Critical Thinking (CT)

4Dear Executive, What’s your view about Critical Thinking? Would it be correct to say that internal criticism of your company would only be acceptable if it were initiated by management? It’s difficult to imagine a situation where an employee would proactively aim a...

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STORYTELLING WITH THE 5C’S
STORYTELLING WITH THE 5C’S

Explaining a complex process or illustrating an abstract idea is easier when we take a picture of it. I expect the first travellers to the Egyptian Pyramids were met by itinerant sales people waiving paintings of the desert spectacle because they knew that...

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Soft Skills -Tough Times / MENTORING
Soft Skills -Tough Times / MENTORING

Here’s a soft skill that makes challenge us. While other soft skills are for own benefit, Mentoring offers us an opportunity to benefit someone else and by doing so, demonstrate our leadership in action. In the office or on the Zoom screen, what do you see? A group of...

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Soft Skill 15 : Brainstorming
Soft Skill 15 : Brainstorming

As the name implies, people can get very animated when it comes to Brainstorming. I was in a training course once and a member of our group got so carried away by the rush of ideas he was experiencing that he rose up, rushed towards the leader, lifted the marker pen...

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Soft Skills for Tough Times No.18 : Responding to Pressure
Soft Skills for Tough Times No.18 : Responding to Pressure

I expect it’s different now but the idea of a teacher at the school I went to, pausing mid-lesson, sitting down (they always stood) and saying… ’…Boys (we were all boys) as you go along life’s winding path, you will encounter difficulties and life altering setbacks....

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Soft Skills in Tough Times  Article 30 : INTERVIEW SKILLS
Soft Skills in Tough Times Article 30 : INTERVIEW SKILLS

I’m approaching this Soft Skill from the Interviewee’s perspective because I think that will also be of some value to Interviewer’s.   The traditional picture of Working Life… starting at the bottom of a ladder and climbing progressively upward… seems...

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SOFT SKILLS IN TOUGH TIMES 35 : MINDFULNESS 2
SOFT SKILLS IN TOUGH TIMES 35 : MINDFULNESS 2

When I posted my first Soft Skills article on Mindfulness back in September, I said that I hadn’t seen it on any list of Soft Skills and so I felt that including it in this series could possibly be considered as a a step too far beyond the boundaries of the...

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Soft Skills in Tough Times Article 36 : Managing Fear
Soft Skills in Tough Times Article 36 : Managing Fear

Why Include ‘Fear’ In A List of Soft Skills? Fear could come under the ‘Emotional Resilience’ category of Soft Skills but it would imply that we are all dealing with it successfully and I don’t think that is the case for everyone. In my mind, Fear is a big item. It...

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