Enhancing Impact and Influence – Proven Principles, Top Tips
Would you like to have more positive impact and influence at work? A WholeBeing approach is proven to help; in my experience, anyone with the right purpose and mindset - who also applies the right communication tools and techniques consistently - can enhance their brand and impact and increase their influence significantly. And start to see the benefits almost immediately. If you feel you don’t yet have the personal brand [...]
How to excel in performance reviews when you work in banking
(First published in efinancialcareers.com.) It’s the beginning of the year, and you’re ready to smash 2019. You may have had your performance review for last year already, or it may be coming in the next few weeks. If it’s the latter, you need to )work-it. I’ve worked in this industry for over two decades and I know how important performance reviews are. The executive coach [...]
It’s All About Them: 5 Simple Ways to Prepare for a Meeting
The other day one of my coaching clients asked me, with a mixture of exhaustion in his posture, resignation in his voice and a small glimmer of hope in his eyes "How can I stop having to attend so many meetings?!" I felt for him. He has recently been promoted to a Board position and as per the usual he is struggling to back-fill his previous role, as well as [...]
How to Have a Great Performance Review
You know your Performance Review is coming up, and you want it to go well – so how do you prepare? In my experience of coaching so many people over the years, it helps to take the same kind of approach to a performance review as when preparing for an interview. A performance review is about your line manager being able to see how you have contributed to your [...]
How to introduce yourself…
We’ve all been there – that moment when we are asked to introduce ourselves in a meeting. We know it’s coming (or should know) so why are we ever caught off guard? It helps to have given some thought to how we can best introduce ourselves, both generally and to each particular audience. While I would never suggest delivering a memorised personal introduction, it helps [...]
How to avoid the Waffle Trap
If you have ever found yourself rattling on in a presentation or meeting, you may just have succumbed to the “Waffle Trap”. The Waffle Trap has ruined, or at the very least, weakened many a presentation, and I’m not just talking about formal presentations – in fact, it is a common occurrence in meetings with customers, internal meetings and presentations. AVOID WAFFLE AT ALL COSTS if [...]