All articles by Darren A Smith – Page 3
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Comment & OpinionUse triggers to form habits to make your resolutions stick
As the new year sneaks in, we welcome it quietly, softly, without wishing to voice our thoughts too loudly in case it becomes another flaming nightmare of a year
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Comment & OpinionWe can’t all be like Rocky – build your resilience muscle
Although some days you’d rather pull the duvet over your head and forget the world, you have developed resilience
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Comment & OpinionWhat Moneyball can teach us about those difficult conversations
The film about a baseball club struggling to compete can teach us a lot about conflict resolution
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Comment & OpinionUnder attack: simple ways to dodge the real threat of cybercrime
This company has been phished. That company has been subjected to ransomware. My friend has lost his identity
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Comment & OpinionWhy ‘soft skills’ are important and how to gain and share them
Humans cannot process data quicker than machines, so don’t try. Do what they can’t
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Comment & OpinionThe Drama Triangle: recognise your role, then break out of it!
Psychiatrist Steven Karpman came up with the drama triangle in the 1960s, and it is as relevant today as it was then
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Comment & OpinionLeaders now appear at all levels – here’s how to become a good one
Being a leader has become about one of the key pieces of leadership: setting an example
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Comment & OpinionListen out for the key words that give away what people think
Knowing that all words are not created equally can be very useful in the workplace
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Comment & OpinionHow frogs, badgers and mammoths can help you manage time
How often have you thought, in the office, ‘when they all go home, I’ll get this done’?
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Comment & OpinionCarry on emailing… but make sure you avoid these mistakes
How would Carry On’s Lewis Boggs rate your emailing efficiency?
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Comment & OpinionDon’t be ‘ignored’: How to overcome the perils of procrastination
Why is it that whenever there is something tough to do – something hard that takes a lot of concentration – the Radar of Procrastination beeps, clicks, unwinds and fires up?
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Comment & OpinionPeople management: hear the music to support your team
Managing people is hard. They are all different, with different motivations, different wants, and different expectations
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Comment & OpinionWhat does ‘thinking strategically’ mean and how necessary is it?
Those that talk about strategic thinking often cannot explain what it is
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Comment & OpinionBe curious! Top tips to improve your negotiation skills
When you think of good negotiators, you probably think of a gruff old boy banging his fist on the table. In my experience, the better negotiators are the more curious ones
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Comment & OpinionSpeak to different ways of thinking during presentations
Most people struggle to present in an engaging way. They present in their language
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Comment & OpinionAn ACE way to escape the eternal nightmare of bad meetings
The reason people don’t want productive meetings is because they’d have to do more work
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Comment & OpinionHow to deal with the email monster and make your working life easier
Some 320 billion emails are sent every day. Were you ever shown how to use them?
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Comment & OpinionThe trust formula: where do you or your colleagues fall down?
Some bright spark has now defined trust, with an equation
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Comment & OpinionHow to deal with the ‘Zoom Doom’ and maximise meetings
Online calls and online meetings are the norm because of the pandemic
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