Bill of Assertive Rights

Today, we’re running Assertiveness & Workplace Confidence workshop at Stranmillis, for QUB. Manuel Smyth, author of When I Say No I Feel Guilty (Affiliate link), devised the Bill of Assertive Rights. It’s a bit like the American Constitution, inalienable. It provides an excellent introduction to the topic. Manuel Smyth’s Bill of Assertive Rights You have the right to judge...

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Narcissism is Good for Business

Love, love me do.  You know I love…me! I love taking things to the extremes, adding a bit of spice to an otherwise bland, mediocre, middle-of -the road mindset.  Yes, I know that everyone else says this, but I mean it.  That’s why, for example, at BizCamp Newry 2012 I advised entrepreneurs to develop their narcissistic tendencies.  Then I read a BBC article  in defence of...

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Find a Way or Make One

Hannibal, a 3BC military leader, when faced with an apparently insurmountable problem – the Alps – said: I will either find a way or make one. In his mind, the answer to an obstacle in the path and the lack of means to overcome it was not to retreat, surrender, or wail.  How can we imbibe some of his grit? Quit moaning and do something productive toward your goal instead. Stop...

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Meetings: Stand and Deliver

Today, I’m working through our Radical Time Management workshop with a group of business owners who have signed up to QUB’s CPD programme.   One aspect of today will be to discuss how to decide whether a meeting is really necessary, how to get out of meetings, delegate someone to go in your place.  However, should it arise that a meeting is entirely necessary, then here are the...

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