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Day 16 of F.O.O.D. – online presentations are always smoother when you’ve SIEVED the ingredients!

For day 16 of my F.O.O.D. Advent Calendar I’m thinking about online presentations you may need to make. Don’t let yours be full of lumps and bumps instead use my SIEVED technique! Structure – think beginning, middle and end, like the news – tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them and then tell…
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Day 15 of F.O.O.D. – using CAPERS to build your resilience

Day 14 of my FOOD Advent Calendar is about Resilience and I’d like to share my CAPERS technique, a versatile ingredient for adding distinct flavour to whatever you are doing. I think it’s really important to understand that challenges will happen and the best thing is to plan for them so that we don’t feel…
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Day 14 of F.O.O.D. – How do you use your APPETITE to manage your time?

It’s day 14 of my F.O.O.D. Advent Calendar and I’m wondering what APPETITE you have to improve your Time Management? Sometimes we work on automatic pilot and never know from one minute to the next what we do with our time.  If you analyse your time over a day or week, you may be very…
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Day 13 of F.O.O.D. – CHOCOLATES to remind us of Kindness!!

Day 13 of my Advent Calendar is all about kindness and so what better acronym than CHOCOLATES! Kindness has such amazing benefits for the giver as well as the receiver and is a free resource!  I started thinking of some of the random acts of kindness we could do and have listed them below. Pay…
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Day 12 of F.O.O.D. – Using PEPPER to spice up your online interviews

It’s day 12 of my F.O.O.D. Advent Calendar and today I’d like you to use PEPPER to add flavour to your online interviews. Preparation is crucial both for yourself and your subject.  Little things such as what you’re going to wear.  Knowing about the organisation and what it is about them that really lights your…
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