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Take Away Line After a year of exciting and challenging international assignments, alongside the more typical ones in the UK and other European Countries, it’s time to roast a Christmas chestnut and reflect on the learning that they have brought … Continue reading
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Take Away Line Rattling through the bush on a long journey can be a great way to reflect, discuss and formulate. On one journey in the Madagascan Highlands, we talked about how to choose the right leadership development programme, developing … Continue reading
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Take Away Line The European Union is supporting the development of civil society in a number of its neighbours, seeing their stability and prosperity as in our interest as well as a good thing to support. Solidarity in action. But … Continue reading
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Take Away Line As high stress levels seem to be endemic in professional life, attention turns to understanding how to cope and, better still, to lead oneself and ones team through the stress. The process of moving from being subject … Continue reading
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Take Away Line Much of the literature on happiness seems to emphasise the importance of removing barriers to happiness, since happiness is more or less a natural state. Removing barriers has been a theme of all these articles. But there … Continue reading
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Take Away Line Whether it’s to survive the tough times we live in or to perform in the Olympics, we have to keep well. Keeping well is the baseline for job satisfaction and happiness generally. But wellness is not just … Continue reading
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Take Away Line While the word challenge frequently came to mind during the Olympics and Paralympics, the word boredom did not. Yet, all jobs have a mixture of challenge and repetition. What’s our stance in relation to work challenge? How … Continue reading
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Take Away Line We might feel that a calling is something that only the few have. And there is some empirical evidence to support this idea. Few of us feel we can alter our work or other circumstances. But with … Continue reading
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Take Away Line The zone is one of the fairly rare moments that all athletes know and treasure. Indeed, most of us experience flow at one point or another. But like all physical states, it’s temporary and while we may … Continue reading
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Take Away Line After a successful Olympics, what’s your personal legacy from the games? Since they were a happy games, what about happiness? Now, there’s a stretch goal! When we look at it, as the articles in this series attempt … Continue reading
