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I will be posting a series of blogs on resilience and optimism. As a start, and after a big dose of family over Christmas, it seems appropriate to reflect how much we can learn from our children. 1. Persistence Have you ever seen a child at a task that seems impossible? If you have you’ve … Continued

At an Engage for Success event yesterday, it was clear how critical leadership is to employee engagement. With trust at an all time low (only 3 out of 10 employees trust their managers), how do managers rebuild trust? David MacLeod and Nita Clarke were asked by the UK government to take an in-depth look at … Continued

Why? How? What? This little idea explains why some organizations and some leaders are able to inspire where others aren’t. Let me define the terms really quickly. Every single person, every single organization on the planet knows what they do, 100 percent. Some know how they do it, whether you call it your differentiated value … Continued

I wanted to share a free tool I started using this week. It’s a free online “egg timer.” http://e.ggtimer.com/ First, set a goal of what you’d like to accomplish. Then go to that site, enter an amount of time (I recommend 20-40 minutes), and start working. I like to put the timer in a separate window and re-size it … Continued

Martin Seligman, the ‘godfather’ of Positive Psychology, has found that: – optimistic people deliver 35% more sales than pessimists – optimistic people are less likely to quit at the end of the first year than pessimists. (Seligman and Schulman, 1986) The attached LOTR questionnaire provides a measure of your level of optimism. So just how … Continued

Barbara Fredrickson on the link between positive language and business performance: “We go into companies and transcribe every word that is said in their business meetings. We have done this in 60 companies. One third of the companies are flourishing economically, one-third are doing okay and one-third are failing. We code each sentence for positive … Continued

Professor Philip Zimbardo reveals how our individual perspective on time affects our work, health and well-being. This RSA Animate is adapted from Zimbardo’s lecture at the RSA. A useful insight into how different parts of the world and different generations view time and that leads to how we can communicate with each other more effectively. Especially … Continued