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Micro-learning: Mastering Meetings and Groups
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Micro-learning: Leading with Stories
Critical Thinking
Micro-learning: Critical Thinking
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Micro-learning: Natural Networking
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Micro-learning: Influencing Well
If Then New
Design (and share) your If > Then statements, for a purposefully prompt towards action
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How to generate more ideas (and get to the good ones) with Nick Eagleton
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A three-step approach to finding your ‘Why’
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Catherine Allison
How to influence decisions and boost gravitas with your voice
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Upping your gravitas by silencing your inner critic and amplifying your inner coach
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Spark more ideas with the Related Worlds tool
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How to check your writing for clarity
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Using the 'Rule of Three' to communicate memorable ideas
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How to pause when presenting
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Working with eye contact
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The power of plain language in presentations
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The power of 'You' in writing
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How writing a letter can breed gratitude
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Filling your day with excitement and gratitude
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What designers need to know about microcopy
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Skills and mindsets for making mentoring meaningful
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Setting mentoring relationships up for success
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The impact of coaching, and it's distinction from mentoring
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Practical pointers for authentic leadership
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Hilary
Coaching, and creating coaching cultures
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Vocal confidence warm up exercises
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Vocal techniques for clearer articulation
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Warm up exercises for your groups and meetings
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Growth Mindset Mantras
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First person perspectives: How it feels to be neurodivergent at work
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How to set your ideas on fire
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Taking your concept into the real world
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Neurodiversity know-how. Dyslexia with Dr. Anne Cockayne
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Neurodiversity know-how. ADHD with Dr. Anne Cockayne
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Neurodiversity know-how. Autism with Dr. Anne Cockayne
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Neurodiversity explained, with Dr. Anne Cockayne
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Neuroinclusion at work: Thinking about adjustments
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Neurodiversity know-how: The Spiky Profile explained
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Neurodivergent Perspectives. Lexi Keegan in conversation with Dr. Anne Cockayne
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Perspectives on privilege, with Abi Adamson
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Privilege reflections. With Abi Adamson
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Diversify your feed. With Abi Adamson
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What's your Privilege Pledge? With Abi Adamson
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Effective Allyship. With Abi Adamson
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Mentors, Sponsors and Champions. With Abi Adamson
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From discos to black holes: a game that unlocks creativity
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The first thing you should do when receiving a new brief
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How to command an on-screen presence
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How to start writing
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The secret to a successful Tone of Voice
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How to write with authority for brands
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ADHD, work and leading teams — a first person perspective
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How to run a project retro with your team
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Keep it simple. Quick and effortless copywriting
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Writing in the active voice
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Course Pack: Neurodiversity
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Course Pack: The art of saying No (and how to say Yes)
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Course Pack: Purposeful presenting
Behave
Course Pack: Behavioural Insights
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Course Pack: Rethinking Resilience
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Course Pack: Charm School
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eCourse: Go with the GROW model
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eCourse: Neurodiversity and Neuroinclusion — A purposeful primer
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eCourse: Are you listening?
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eCourse: Meaningful Mentoring
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eCourse: Leadership Styles, a primer
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eCourse: Charm School
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eCourse: Owning Feedback
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eCourse: Practicing a Coaching Approach
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eCourse: Get SET with your Goals
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eCourse: Time Management and Prioritisation
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eCourse: Mastering Delegation
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eCourse: Strengths to Influence
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eCourse: Visual Collisions
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Better Briefing: A bitesize guide from Baxter & Bailey
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Why you should work standing up
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Clear and simple copy
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Breathing for productivity
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Get your team talking to each other with a practical take on the Myers-Briggs personality test
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Knowing me, knowing you
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Course Pack: Decision Lab
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Course Pack: Micro-Habits
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Intentional Interruption: Calling Out vs. Calling In microaggressions
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Course Pack: Managing Up
Feedback
Course Pack: Owning Feedback
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Course Pack: Effective 1-1s
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What's your team's CAMPS score? Get a snapshot of engagement levels.
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Course Pack: Are you Listening?
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And-But-Therefore — Try out a tested storytelling technique
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Course Pack: Strategies for Stress
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Course Pack: Mastering Meetings & Groups
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To.... So That. A snappy structure to define the purpose of any meeting
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The voice in your head, and how to harness it — with psychologist Ethan Kross.
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Think Again, by Adam Grant
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The Art of Gathering, by Priya Parker
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Root, Stem, Branch — An organic approach for telling your own story
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Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss — Key ideas and takeaways from the best-selling-book on negotiation skills.
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Mastering (Virtual) Presence, coach and facilitator Mike Sagun in conversation for the Conversation Factory
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Circlesheila
Decoding Difficult Conversations — Sheila Heen unpacks the layers within those conversations you're probably avoiding.
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Course Pack: The Business Model Canvas
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Course Pack: Delegation. Done
Ideasslide
Course Pack: How to have Ideas
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25 recommended books on creative thinking, courtesy of Saboteur creative director Nick Eagleton
Albert
Course Pack: Defining Problems
Burnout Reflections
Talking about burnout — a useful reflection tool
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Conflict
Course Pack: Constructive Conflict and Difficult Conversations
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Course Pack: Influence IRL
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eCourse: Better Breathing
Neuroworkplace
The Neuroinclusive workplace — a thought-provoking visual guide
Circlesheila
Using 'I statements' to challenge bias
MOM
Create your personal user guide with a Manual of Me
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Gravitas
Course Pack: Presence and Gravitas
Chatter Bottom
Chatter: Practical tools to apply, and harness the voice in your head
Micro
Course Pack: Microaggressions
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eCourse: A Brand called You
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Course Pack: A Brand called You
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Encourage diverse perspectives, with Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats
MOM
Mitchell on Meetings — What we learned and where it led
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Round Robin Brainstorming — An inclusive tool for inviting (and building on) everyone's ideas
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Course Pack: Building Confidence
CI Miro
Course Pack: Conscious Inclusion
Burnout
Course Pack: Educating Managers about Burnout
Scaling
Experiment with a 'Scaling Question' to better connect, learn and influence
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Discover and apply the SEEDS model, to defeat bias in everyday decisions
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Course Pack: Writing Well
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Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shares powerful, actionable insights on the impact of our body language
TFF
Watch Sheila Heen explain why we need to be regularly asking for feedback, and what stops us from doing so.
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Listen to former hostage Chris Voss share practical insights on better negotiation.
Time Tool
Experiment with Timeboxing for more focus and productivity
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Build your time awareness, and reveal ways to boost productivity, with an Activity Log
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Time in tomatoes: build productivity and focus with the Pomodoro technique
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Six practical tools for building confidence and self-belief, shared by brain expert Ian Robertson
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Great questions to ask in coaching conversations, 1-1's and other curious contexts
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Course Pack: Navigating Negotiation
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Course Pack: Making Time
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Six steps for finding focus and flow, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in mind
Orange
Practice the principles of persuasion from 'Godfather of Influence,' Robert Cialdini.
Circlestwo
How to be a meaningful mentor, insights from a purposeful podcast
Breathman
Mindful breathing — the foundation of focus and flow
CLAP
Get clear on control with a Clarity Clap
Setback
Smarten your approach to setbacks, by trying out a Setback Story
To Think
Don't forget to diarise thinking time — experiment with a 'To Think' list
Silent Meeting
Make your next meeting a Silent Meeting
Can If Go
Immediately build your confidence, with a 'Can-If' statement
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Build belief by recognising small wins — Try a 'Done List'
Friction
Add some friction to your most common distractions
Fly
Channel that fly on the wall. Try some purposeful self talk to mitigate moments of doubt
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Micro-learning: Keeping a coaching mindset
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Micro-learning: Setting Better Boundaries
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Micro-learning: Effective Allyship
Breathman
Micro-learning: Building Confidence
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Micro-learning: Feedback fundamentals
Presenting Head
Micro-learning: Purposeful Presenting
Time Team
Micro-learning: Finding Focus and Flow
Noticingman
Micro-learning: The Art of Noticing
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Micro-learning: Writing Well
Rright
Micro-learning: Experiments for Resilience
4 Ds
The 4Ds. A practical framework for acknowledging microaggressions
Coaching Criticism
Find the Coaching in Criticism. Things to try when feedback doesn't quite land
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Course Pack: Natural Networking
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Course Pack: Storytelling
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Tone Policing - What it is, why it's unhelpful and how to helpfully notice it.
Spring
Experiment with a Springboard Story to communicate your change idea, and take people with you towards it.
Mentorsqarer
Evolve your 'inner mentor' — a short reflective exercise to focus your development, and the ways you can better support others
Do Story
Practical storytelling principles from Bobette Buster's book — Do: Story
Homework
Homework for Life: A ten-second daily ritual for noticing, capturing and practicing stories
Hear
Try this deep listening exercise for deeper connection and better conversations
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Discover the impact a five minute favour can have on your relationships, and network building
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Experiment with the BRAIN model for confident decision making and problem solving
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Course Pack: Voice Gym. Building your vocal confidence
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A three minute mindset exercise, to support a coaching approach
Allyship CP
Course Pack: Effective Allyship, with Abi Adamson
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Try the 5 Whys to invigorate your problem solving and add depth to your decisions.
Good Qs
Smart ways to frame questions in your next mentoring session
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Try out the CAR technique, and upgrade your understanding when interviewing someone.
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Five powerful questions for adding impact and insight to your next interview.
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Five tactics for influencing those more senior
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Micro-learning: Getting into a Growth Mindset
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Solve problems before they happen with pre-mortems
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eCourse: Conscious Inclusion
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A checklist for checklists — five things to tick off when developing a checklist
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Share genuinely useful feedback with the BID model
Pencilsoff
Seven things to avoid when writing at work
Meetings
Finding fortitude, and follow on experiments
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eCourse: Confidence Mastery
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Daniel Goleman's Six Leadership Styles, explained by Louise Hedges
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Six Leadership Styles, your desktop background
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A coaching conversation around strengths
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How do you notice your thoughts? With Dr. Sam Akbar
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Letting go of emotions. With Dr. Sam Akbar
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Making room for emotions (and the weather). With Dr. Sam Akbar
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Everyday mindfulness. With Dr. Sam Akbar
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Mindful toothbrushing. With Dr. Sam Akbar
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Anchor dropping. With Dr. Sam Akbar
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5,4,3,2,1 — a mindfulness technique. With Dr. Sam Akbar
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Urge surfing. With Dr. Sam Akbar
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Kate Lloyd's nudge, on the coaching leadership style
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Kate and Catherine on the coaching opportunity
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Kate and Catherine on questioning well
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Kate and Catherine on intentional listening
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Kate and Catherine on pausing, for conversational space
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Time Blocking, and bringing some colour into your calendar
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Kas's reflections on listening and questioning well
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Matteo's coaching reflections
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Making the case for situational flexibility as leaders
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eCourse: Difficult Conversations
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Worksheet: Owning Feedback
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Worksheet: Time Blocking
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Raul Aparici on mitigating impostor syndrome
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Book Club: New Methods for Women — With Sharmadean Reid MBE
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Tasha Eurich
Increase your self-awareness with one simple fix
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Mindful toothbrushing. With Dr. Sam Akbar

With the promise of easy and purposeful mindfulness in mind — Sam introduces here a personal favourite exercise, something that helps her to train her attention twice a day, And as always, she invites you to give it a go too.
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