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When speaking with your coach or on attending a seminar, keep these mind-sets in mind. The following are examples of which mind-sets produce no-results and which mind-sets produce breakthroughs and insights for yourself.

Some people have that ability to create something amazing out of the conversations they have. Whether it’s helping someone gain insight over a dilemma, adding a little sunshine to someone’s day or replacing conflict with collaboration. So how do they do this? What skills are they using?

Generally, until we learn better, we identify ourselves with our mind. We think our thoughts are simply “me thinking” and our feelings are “me feeling”.

It’s all about enabling yourself to pick up information through your senses, principally so you can gather information more effectively as you work with people. Building on and developing sensory acuity means that people not only learn how to gather information about those around them, but also gather insightful information about their own behaviours and attitudes, empowering them in creating more deliberate, helpful styles of engagement with others.

When I first started researching business philanthropy I was amazed and shocked to read how many articles openly pitched philanthropy as a marketing strategy. With statements such as ‘boost your business by creating a compelling charitable profile’, it’s plain to see that for some businesses their philanthropic investment is simply ugly lip service.

We live in a society that doesn’t fully understand emotions and that most often encourages us to push them aside in favour of “getting things done.” Ironically, what keeps us from really getting things done or from even knowing what is most important to do are the very emotions we have pushed aside...

You've had a BIG idea but if only other people could see it's brilliance too! We've all had our ideas knocked flat at some stage or other, so why is this and what can you do about it?

First, we'll discuss what consideration is not, because, as in the process of elimination, you can never truly see something, until you recognise what it is not.

There are times when we need to push past our natural inclination and ‘not be ourselves’ to get the result we need. In a performance review you may need to tell someone they are not measuring up. Do you tiptoe around the point, or are you able to talk about the things you need to, in a way that confronts the problem and sets a plan in motion to overcome it? Some confrontation avoiders see every hard conversation as a potential confrontation and often will do nothing and hope it goes away.

Are you finding that you have to do more and more work presentations and experience issues when you get up in front of others to speak? This article is designed to help you understand what you need to do to get good at public speaking so that you can overcome any issues.

As a leader, if you want people to follow you, inspire them with a compelling vision, affirm the importance of their roles in achieving success, and then give them the resources they need to innovate and make the vision a reality ... they will find the way! By David Savage with extracts from the the book The New Leaders by Daniel Goleman

When you meet someone new, do you find yourself curious to know what they do and why? Are you interested in the things other people do well and equally, the things people love to do as work?

For a while now blogging has been marketed as the 'blue-eyed-boy' of online business development. But just like a trip into deep space, it can be pretty lonely out there and visitors sometimes non-existent. So is there an alternative? OH YEAH...

Myth 3: How I think about my audience doesn't matter. Truth: How you view your listeners is more important than the words you say.