We regularly produce articles on subjects that we feel will interest our clients and potential customers. It is our way of both offering you something genuinely useful, a core value of our business, and a way of you getting to understand more about our style and how we think.
Below is a selection of articles we have produced in the past. More will be added from time to time.
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The power of attraction
26/09/08
It is our belief that the organisations that will be most successful in the coming years, those that will thrive through the current period of economic uncertainty and generate superior returns for their stakeholders, will also be vibrant, playful, energetic and fun places to be. They will be characterised by a spirit of creativity, inspiration, self belief and optimism that breathes life into the organisation and, most importantly, the people within it.
The protestant work ethic that arguably provided the backbone to businesses that thrived in the 19th and 20th centuries is, in this new century, more likely to be what stands in the way outstanding performance and long term, sustainable growth.
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Political Skills for Business Leaders
29/07/08
Organisational politics is a factor that, probably more than any other we can identify, undermines organisational effectiveness and profitability. Given these negative effects, it would be good to think that we can and should rise above such pettiness or simply walk away. In reality, however, to ignore, or be insufficiently proficient in and sensitive to organisational politics also means turning our back on the career progression and the influence that our capabilities merit. It may be ethical, but it is also naïve.
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Goal setting for personal and business success
15/07/08
Goals that are set in a clear, specific, realistic and compelling way have the effect of programming us for success. As business leaders, we would never expect our businesses to be fully successful without us setting and constantly reviewing business goals and objectives. Why then do we so often ignore this critical step when it comes to our career, or, indeed, our life in general?
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The Personal Business Coach hits the web
21/06/08
We are proud to announce the launch of the new Inspire Development and Coaching website.
Even more so than we did with our original site, we have built this as a constantly growing business leadership resource bank.
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Success
05/06/08
A key theme in this and most other objective studies of the differenced between successes and failures is the critical role of goal setting. Effectively, people with a sense of direction, people who get things done, people who shape their world and reap the material and personal rewards, in short people who succeed, do not waste time in vague wishful thinking.
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Executive Coaching
05/06/08
Self coaching with “Inner GROW” By Martin Gillespie Giving yourself a competitive edge – for free Most executives are now aware that coaching provides a cost effective and time efficient means of accelerating their personal development. The payback in business and career terms is proven. What fewer are yet aware of, however, is that, with the investment of a little time and a modicum of self discipline, many of the benefits of the coaching process can be gained without having to invest in a personal coach.
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Leadership with impact
17/12/08
By Martin Gillespie The wisdom of the leadership gurus Hundreds, indeed thousands of books and articles have been written on the subject of leaders and leadership. After absorbing all the theories, concepts and models, however, we are often left wondering of what practical use they are to us.
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