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Day 3 of F.O.O.D. – Using CRUST to manage remotely

It’s day 3 of my Advent Calendar and I’d like to share my CRUST technique to help with you manage your team remotely, our new reality! CRUST is a nice metaphor, as to me, it feels that it envelopes all the goodness within. C is for collaboration. A great team works together, whether they’re together or…
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Day 2 of F.O.O.D. – Using PEAR to enhance your Influencing Skills

Hello!  It’s day 2 of my Advent Calendar and in my clip today I’d like to share my PEAR technique to help with your influencing skills. P is for problem solving. We often feel that to solve problems we need to influence others, where in actual fact, it’s much better to approach the issue the…
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Day 1 of F.O.O.D. – Using POPCORN to Manage Uncertainty

Wow, can you believe it’s the first of December? What a year! But as it’s the first, it means that I can reveal my FOOD (Fixing the Out of Office Dilemma) Advent Calendar. I hope you enjoy these little daily nuggets. I’ve baked them up into a ‘foody’ word to help you remember the techniques…
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F.O.O.D. – Fixing the Out of Office Dilemma

Hello I’d like to introduce you to our new concept called FOOD – Fixing the out of office dilemma. We’ve all been working from home since the end of March and it’s brought about different challenges for us all.  Now that Lockdown the Sequel is coming to an end, we’re realising that this is going…
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What have you done today to be kind?

Did you know it’s World Kindness Day today? Kindness is about genuinely caring for those around you; wanting the best for them as you do for yourself and this is something that is really important to me and hope very visible in what I say and do.  It is about creating a warmness and trust…
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