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  • Resilience

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    Photo by Frantisek Duris on Unsplash I was writing some learning material on resilience last week and found it difficult to get any really good resource material. If you have to do anything with resilience as a topic here are some good links. Read the following guide: Emotional Resilience Toolkit Read the article: 5 ways to boost your…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Thinking

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    Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? I’m working today, and I was working yesterday and all of last week. Busy times. I am getting some balance in by running and riding my bike. I’m busy with facilitation and writing and honestly I am not complaining, it has been very interesting. I was doing…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Dominoes

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    How is your Sunday going? Today I am heading back from a quick trip to Hervey Bay. A great place if you haven’t been there. If you have some spare minutes today and want to relax by doing something mindless just watch these people and their big domino setup. Life is often like this, one…

  • Business and team goals

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    Photo by Thomas Serer on Unsplash I have been doing some writing about business goals, team goals and KPI’s this week. Exciting stuff. Dan Pink, love his books, has just sent out a short video on this which uses index cards. I am going to do this in future. I usually just ask a team the question –…

  • Getting Assertive

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    Photo by Heidi Sandstrom. on Unsplash I have been doing a great deal of training lately around people performance, conflict and dealing with difficult issues and 90% of the time it boils down to being assertive enough to deal with the problem. Not easy to do. Not something I found easy either but it was required and I…

  • Training and stress

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    Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash Training and teaching can be stressful. It can also make you quite tired. I have my own strategies to deal with this which include rest, running and a healthy diet. I also have periods of just tuning out using reading an Netflix to achieve that. The article below has 5 tips for…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Ups and Downs

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    Photo by Austin Schmid on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? I’m not sure about your week but mine was a very busy one with some lows and some great highs. At times you can get a little down in training when things are not working but you have to stay on top of things and remain calm…

  • Unconsciously Incompetent

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    The title of this post is (see above – don’t want to write that out again). How many people who believe they are competent, in fact  highly competent (is there such a thing) are also not aware of some key aspects of their role or occupation because they are (see title above).  Read this recent…

  • Another week and another talk on Emotional Intelligence

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    Photo by Cristian Newman on Unsplash Emotional intelligence is a big part of my work. I just finished reading Search Inside Yourself on the weekend which was essentially about Google’s training program on EI, mindfulness and meditation. It has some great tips and practices. The article below also has some good tips. It’s worth reading for the simple…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Surf’s Up

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    Photo by Seth Doyle on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? Summer is coming up fast and it is that time of the year I start thinking about surf, sun and swimming. The video below is of a super long wave on a board that is floating above the wave. But even more important than the great scenery,…