Raise Your Game

One of the biggest reasons so many of us hold disdain for New Year’s resolutions or abandon our original goals come February is because we tend to pick goals that aren’t meaningful to us. In the final episode of Getting Connected with your Goals, Shankar Santhiram will share ideas on how to develop meaningful new-year goals and sticking to it.

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We've all seen it - people listening to a sales presentation or a business pitch, eyes glazed over and their minds anywhere but on what the speaker is saying. As an entrepreneur, whether you're selling yourself or your products and services, it's critical to avoid the missteps that put prospects to sleep and kill the deal. One thing for sure is that to speak the language that your audience understands. In part four of our Plain English Series, Geoff Webb shared tips on “Presenting Winning Ideas with Plain English”.

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If you’ve recently been hired as a manager, you know the dirty secret -Management positions come with surprisingly little guidance. Whether you were promoted internally or brought in from outside, you were probably expected to hit the ground running, toward only the vaguest of goals. Many of the problems new managers experience stem from that secret. They are faced with an ill-defined job and equally intense pressure from above and below. We spoke to Jermaine Bee of Leaderonomics on “Guiding New Managers - From a New Manager’s Perspective”.

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Colette Carlson is a funny, business communication expert and motivational keynote speaker who engages corporations, associations and individuals worldwide in the art of speaking your truth to maximize results, revenue and relationships. Colette is someone who learned her message the hard way. She started out a big, fat liar. Literally! Only by telling the truth on herself was she able to break through her fears, lose over 50 lbs. and take healthy risks. We spoke to Colette about her journey in finding the courage to speak the truth.

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The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or at least, by a significant and distant age in the future). Setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making. In the third part of our Good People Better Leaders Series 'Getting Connected With Your Goals', Shankar Santhiram from EQTD Consulting focuses on how individuals can set achievable lifetime goals. 

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Managers and supervisors in small businesses constantly face challenges that require a highly developed sense of initiative. Leaders must learn to act quickly and decisively, especially when under pressure and sometimes make major decisions with only a small amount of available information. In this episode of The Science of Building Leader Series, we spoke to Georgi Tsvetanov from Silega on Developing Leaders through Board Games.

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Leadership and management in a reductionist sense ultimately is about one thing: satisfactory completion of a task. Leadership can be used to make the task completed quicker, but that limits the quality of the experience as few people can learn anything from it. A quality leader makes both the task and experience better. We spoke to Stephen Liu, the CEO of Ridpest on "How Hobbies can Play a Role in Management and Leadership Strategies".

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Having set goals, many people falter at seeing them through. What’s not so easy is sticking to what you set out to do and continually recommitting yourself to your vision. It’s especially challenging when there is a big, looming chasm between where you are now, and where you want to be. In episode two, Shankar Santhiram from EQTD Consulting shared tips on how to stay committed to your goals.

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Last week Geoff Webb, Chief Instructional Designer from Plain Language Solutions was here to share with us the differences between Plain English and Traditional English/ Academic English. Strucked by what he said that, we learn a language to impress and as it consequence English as it is used in a world of work is about impressing as opposed to communicating. Today, in our second of the series, he's back with Rebekah Kaur, a consultant from the same organisation as we go into 'Plain English - The Perfect Solution for Non-Native English Speakers'.

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Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organisation. Innovation and speed to market are two ways to launch and grow a business. Creating, fostering and sustaining the right working environment to do this can be tricky. One way is encouraging intrapreneurship by unleashing the power of employees who have entrepreneurial skills and mindsets that work within a company. We spoke to Elisa Dass from Leaderonomics about "Building Intrapreneurship."

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