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Over the last few weeks, I’ve watched at the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, and the world's response to it. Within the UK (as across the world), our Prime Minister has been forced to take the necessary measures to try and slow the spread of this disease, including the ...
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We've all been there at some point in life, when someone from somewhere has approached you and asked "Can you just..." And in that moment, we have a decision to make, but the decision we are making is far more complex than you may have first thought! Firstly, they have ...
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I know before I even begin typing that this blog is going to be a lot like a jar of marmite!  You're either going to love me for saying this or hate me! But I can't simply bite my tongue ANY longer!..... Something has gone terribly wrong! You see, before ...
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I was recently recommended by several well known speakers to submit an application to speak at a Multi-speaker event in London at the end of this year.   Having initially thanked each one for the kind recommendation, I read through the event brief, and quickly established WHY they had identified me ...
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I categorically disagree with everything you've just said! It's not the best feedback I've ever had, thats for sure, but it did make me think! I was recently booked to deliver a half day Masterclass, to a room of 45 business owners from across the Middle-East.  They had been flown ...
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Allow me to set the scene: I'd just had breakfast and was sat in my suite, on the 24th floor of the Four Seasons by the Nile hotel, ahead of delivering a business masterclass to one of the worlds largest specialist electronics companies. I took the booking some 8 weeks ...
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I'd like to briefly share with you 2 quick examples as to why not everyone who speaks is a speaker, and why not everyone who listens is your audience! Not all those who speak are speakers Whenever I'm not speaking at events or preparing material, I like to attend conferences ...
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Most of the business owners I know, were looking forward to the 25th December, not for the turkey and all the trimmings, the odd glass or port and the odd mince pie, but for the opportunity to simply 'close shop' turn off the emails and the phone and have some ...
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The last chapter of the book is all based around feedback and its importance in our own journey of self development and personal achievements. I've suggested several times both within the book, my blogs and video's the power of a 'Secret Shopper!' someone who can offer us constructive feedback on ...
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If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always have, what you've already got We know the quote, yet so many people in business and in life continue to do the same thing time after time after time expecting a different result. I remember vividly joining the army ...
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