Imagine this… You’re working on an important task that your manager has just given you and you have to hand it in the next day…You’re already stressed with the work load piling up but this task has now jumped the queue into the urgent pile…Your heart starts to beat a little faster, you’re flustered and trying ...
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Category Business Development
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Leading your people to “OWN IT”
Review of “why you never wash a rental car” by Mark Fritz, UP Academy Masterclass 30/11/17 Mark Fritz is not your usual speaker: he doesn’t use a projector and actually gets you to do the work (you might even create your own PowerPoint to share with your team! ) He’s not the average author, he published a ...
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Why People Leave? (hint* it IS about the money!)
We've heard time and again that people don't leave because of money. We've also heard that money is a hygiene factor and not a motivator (i.e. not enough will make people leave, but its presence will not attract). Employee surveys put money below job satisfaction, empowerment, opportunity and culture, when ranking why they are engaged ...
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Disruption
The way industries operate, consumers react and companies succeed is constantly changing. The marketplace is disrupted and the business model needs to keep changing and innovating to keep up. One way of doing that is by initiating disruption. Apple is one of the companies which really took off once it began disrupting the marketplace. For 20 ...
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International Speaker Event: Andy Lopata on How NOT to get Referrals
When advertising is known to be losing steam, and social media bombardment is often overkill, the single most effective way to grow your business is through networking and referrals. “People buy from people” is a truth that is often undermined because it may not be a skill set we access easily - until now! Learn a ...
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The Neuroscience of Innovation – By the UP Academy
Wouldn’t we all like to be the next Steve Jobs, or create a world-changing product or invention? However we often label ourselves as non-creative people or limit our potential because we don’t know where to start going about innovation. According to Simon Clarkson, creativity is within us all, and through a number of learnt tools, ...
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Learning how the brain innovates – Speaker Event
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Ideas Generation – getting out of the rut
Many companies organise away-days to create space to think, explore ideas and 'brainstorm'. I for one, don't really like the work 'Brainstorm'. It doesn't inspire confidence in a useful outcome; it implies incoherent thought. It doesn't mean that such activities are not useful, however they can be a waste of time or indeed a detriment ...
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Unlocking Flow
It's been half a year since I decided to quit the day-job and start my own business, so I thought I'd reflect on the journey so far. The reasons why I decided to change can be found in earlier reflections on my blogpost here so i'm just checking back to see how things have fared. I must ...
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Are you hidden?
If you had to paint a picture of your spirit, what would it look like? Leadership remains one of the most elusive 'conditions' of human nature that is required in almost every aspect of society. From sports, business, politics & family, leadership is key to success of groups with common goals or aspirations. Unfortunately, it is a ...