Personal Development

Unlock your full potential and cultivate a fulfilling life. This category offers a wide range of resources to help you enhance your skills, manage your well-being, and achieve your personal and professional goals. Explore topics like self-management, stress reduction, goal setting, and effective communication to empower yourself on your journey of continuous growth.
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19 Minutes

Identifying Your Negotiation Style

A straightforward exercise involving a questionnaire intended to give an individual some information about their negotiation style. Allow 45 minutes for completion.

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4 Minutes

Preparing to Go on Annual Leave

These top tips will help you to feel organised in the run up to, during and on your return from annual leave. Much of the advice in this article is equally applicable to extended periods of leave, such as maternity, paternity and adoption leave, or a sabbatical.

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6 Minutes

No More Heroes: a Model of Distributed Leadership

The notion of the heroic leader is as unachievable as it is enduringly popular according to a 2007 article in the Harvard Business Review. If, as Ancona et al suggest in their article In Praise of the Incomplete Leader, the idea of the ‘complete’ leader is a myth, then how should today’s leaders lead? Their framework for distributed leadership suggests some of the answers.

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9 Minutes

Paul McGee on the SUMO Principles

Paul McGee is author of 'SUMO', a best-selling book on personal motivation. This article takes a detailed look at each of the six SUMO principles, and offers practical advice on how they can be applied in the workplace.

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30 Minutes

Effortless

In this podcast, best-selling author Greg McKeown talks to Mind Tools about his "effortless" method, and how it can improve our work and out well-being.

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18 Minutes

My Network

This exercise demonstrates a simple technique to help individuals understand their network more precisely and learn how to shape it. Allow 45 minutes for completion.

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The Considerate Colleague

Top tips on workplace etiquette, which you can use to maintain harmonious professional working relationships and ensure that you are a considerate colleague.

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John Kotter on Getting Buy-In For Your Ideas

In the book 'Buy-In', change management expert John Kotter and co-author Lorne Whitehead present a methodology to help overcome a key problem that leaders and managers face - how to win support and buy-in for their ideas. We present an overview of the book's strategy here.