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Self Assurance Guided Meditation – 10 minute guided meditation to start your day
Lead into your day with a self assuring presence listening to a 10 minute guided strengths meditation. Join Danny Crouch from Choose Your Chapter using strengths language to inspire your innate talents through mindful meditation. Self-Assurance is a talent theme...
read moreAllowing the Ideation Talent to play
Allowing your Ideation talent to play can open a world of creativity and fun. Knowing your top 5 talents according to the Clifton StrengthFinder® enables you to play with excellence. I found this out making the following short 22sec video. Rummaging through stock...
read moreReducing staff turnover and sick leave
“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organisations’ overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction and cash flow. It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long...
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Man Up – Why Athletes Don’t Ask for Help
"I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never going to keep me down..." Tubthumping Are you familiar with the lyrics? That is the expectation in boys and men in sports and life, "Man Up" is often heard on the sporting field. When you get knocked down, it's...
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Choosing the Strategic Path
"Strategists are 'pattern whisperers', naturally able to discern what is important in the “big picture” and what to do to get there." Stephen Pellegrino, Strengths Coach Choosing the strategic path can be simple for someone who has Strategic ™ as a top 5 strength....
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Connecting to Connectedness with Connections to a Bigger Cause.
"People high in Connectedness seek out and embrace the threads that connect us between us as humans, but also other living and breathing beings or objects. We see the beauty of our diversity." Nancy Drab, Quebec, Canada Some people believe in Karma, coincidences, and...
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How Much is your Input Respected?
"People with the StrengthsFinder theme of Input love collecting – this could be items of interest, resources, knowledge or all three. They love and crave to learn new and specific things and to share their knowledge and resources with others. Good question askers,...
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Restorative – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Employees?
Problem or solution? Do you continue to find problems in your life - or are you described by your family, friends and even at work as the person always looking for problems or finding them? Perhaps you know someone just like that. There's a chance this could be the...
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Whose Responsible for that?
Do you fear you take too much responsibility of others? Or do you feel as though no-one takes responsibility for their actions these days? Well there is a talent according to the Clifton StrengthsFinder ® called Responsibility ®. If you have it in your top 5, you may...
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Performance Anxiety Vs Performance Review
"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that." Michelle Obama Coming up to quarterly performance reviews employees stress about whether they're going to have a job, lose their bonus or worse, be...
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The World’s Greatest Testimonial
Well according to me anyway. We all know how it feels to be appreciated and valued for what we bring. And when people offer a testimonial or words of praise it tends to be a sentence or two. However, in this case, the testimonial was so detailed and lengthy we thought...
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The Naked Emperor
Why do we wear uniforms, why do we wear masks, why do we pretend to be someone we're not? Is it because we're taught we need to be someone more, or someone better or even someone else. Are we lead to believe we need to act a certain way, feel a certain way and think a...
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