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1). Dahn Yoga - Yoga for the Soul
Nowadays, yoga is widespread and is new forms are continuously being developed today. Millions of people around the world enjoy yoga every day or week, depending on circumstances into this activity.

2). Business Relationships - Promises are for Keeping
It's a small thing, but it is so vital for business relationships. Forgetting little things promised, causes erosion of trust and belief in you...

3). Making Time for Team Building Relationships
Whatever else you are doing - STOP! - whenever you engage with someone in conversation. Ignore pagers. Put off interruptions. At the very least make sure that you 'honour' the space that you have when you are in any sort of one-to-one with someone else.

4). Ten Meeting Management Issues to Watch Out For
Meetings are valuable components of organisations. Yet they need process, discipline and leadership/facilitation to work best. Here are some indicators to watch out for to highlight where things may be going wrong.

5). Competency Based Interviews - 6 Steps to Success!
More and more organisations are using a competency based framework for interviewing. Here are 6 steps to help you make the best impression - and get

6). Ten Things About Your Career Development
Career Development. Who tells us about this when we start in our first job or make decisions about college? No one. So do we end up in the perf

7). 100% Successful Management – The Ten Winning Behaviours
Management is all about being the one who facilitates business or organisational success. Delivering the required results. It can be daunting, yet with these ten simple ideas, it might not be the impossible challenge...

8). Classic Leadership Styles
Much has been said over the years about leadership styles. Yet research into the best and most practical overview leads to the easiest conclusion (there will always be variables on these, as well as mixes of them), are that there are four distinct leadership styles (plus an extra!)...

9). Employee Motivation - The VERY Easy Way!
Easy motivation of your people is possible, day-in, day out through the use of two little words - but you have to use them; and use them often.

10). Accountable Or Responsible - That Is The Question
Are you ready to step up to the big time?

The reason I ask, is a lesson I learnt once when I got myself promoted...

11). Hot Yoga - Sweeping Away an Image
Yoga for a quiet life? Not necessarily, there is more to Bikram Yoga than you might think...

12). 6 Simple Steps to Dealing with Difficult Managers
Managing teams is tricky enough, but when you have a challenging manager to deal with as well - I guess you could do without it. But a structu

13). Employee Motivation - The 8 Basics
To motivate your employees, it is vital that you start off with understanding that there are some things that need to be fixed first, before you can get on with the above the line actions which develop a strong and engaged culture...

14). Managing Your Time Effectively - Time to Stop
Time is of the essence. And in business, time is money. We all agree to that, but what do we seem to have the least of? And what can we do about it...

15). Team Building - Inherit or Create?
Is it easier to have a bunch of people that are brand new to a team, or one that you mould from those you inherit?

16). A Complementary Team
We all have weaknesses. Whatever our roles.

In management positions, one of the bigger challenges is to recognise our own shortcomings and alter our own behaviours.

Sometimes this can be very challenging...

17). 11 Great Ways to be Positive about Change
Change, as they say, is all around us. And if implemented badly, creates ill-will and a whole raft of negative beliefs about what it means to us. It

18). 11 Ways to Get What You Want - Be a Clever Customer!
There is so much about 'customer service' in the media these days and, well, yes, maybe things aren't what they were. But you can do more, much more

19). 6 Simple Steps to Dealing with Difficult Managers
Managing teams is tricky enough, but when you have a challenging manager to deal with as well - I guess you could do without it. But a structu

20). Ten Things About Your Career Development
Career Development. Who tells us about this when we start in our first job or make decisions about college? No one. So do we end up in the perf

21). 5 Questions Great Managers Ask (and they aren't hard!)
Remember the Pareto Principle. Aka the 80:20 rule. Well, here's something much, much easier! Answer these questions every day. Consider your responses

22). 3 Simple Things the Best Managers Do - And You Can Too!
Do these three things really well and you will be a great manager; a superb manager - and that is a great step ahead, with current standards of m

23). 10 Customer Service Quality Statements to Measure up Against
Customer service is a fundamental quality that every business must have. The higher the standard, the higher the return on the investments you make.

24). People Management - Ten Steps to Success!
People management skills are vital for managers - it may sound simple, yet some managers find it so challenging. But there are just a few simple ideas that you can start to incorporate.

To get the best results you have to be very good at people management...and it's not as hard as you might think. Here are the secrets of the very best managers:-

25). Agendas - The Key to Successful Meetings
For meetings to consistently deliver the required performance and hence outputs, it is critical to have a prepared communication process in advance of the meeting.

26). Ten Ways to be Better at Creating A Winning Business Culture
Creating A Winning Culture requires more than quick-fix actions, because it is a way of being. It is how things are...

27). Time Management and Your Big Rocks
In Steven Covey's excellent book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" he tells a well-worn story about the use of time...

28). Decision Making Processes - Doing the Best You Can
Ever been frustrated by someone who made a decision that seemed to be the wrong decision?

You need to know the consequences of handling this badly...

29). The Power of Groups
Leading your people is a lonely place to be. They expect so much of you. Your business depends on you. And it's tough too.

New evidence, from an intriguing book, indicates that this might not be too good for your health, nor may it be giving you the best results...

30). Early Retirement - The Facts!
Whilst 'early' retirement might sound wonderful, many people would not wish to be pensioned off quite that easily. In fact, worthwhile work in a stretching, yet enjoyable environment is probably much more likely to keep you feeling young, than an enforced early traditional retirement...

31). 11 Great Ways to be Positive about Change
Change, as they say, is all around us. And if implemented badly, creates ill-will and a whole raft of negative beliefs about what it means to us. It

32). Career Development - When It's Time for a Change
Your career might be going great guns - or it might not. You may be 27 or 47; you might be at the top of the tree or you might be just a couple o

33). 11 Ways to Get What You Want - Be a Clever Customer!
There is so much about 'customer service' in the media these days and, well, yes, maybe things aren't what they were. But you can do more, much more

34). Time to Stop Yourself Doing Everything in Your Business
You've been there and done it. You've got the tee-shirt and your experiences mean that you can cut so many corners.

So you do. It's easier. You respond to all the requests, questions, challenges and mistakes of your people...

35). 10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business
You start off alone. Be it as a solo business owner or a manager looking after a part of a larger business. It gets busier, you get distracted from what you want to do, because there's only one of you and you've only got one pair of hands.

So you need to find help...

36). How Showing a Little Appreciation Motivates Employees
There are a whole load of resources you can find on 'motivation'. Books, tapes, internet etc. Yet it need not be so complicated...

37). Hands Off Management - Frying Pan, Fire or Neither?
How tempting is it to fix things? You know, you are passing by one of your teams cubicles and they are doing something you know all about. So you give a hand...

38). Getting Your Feet Wet
Sometimes getting ahead means initial shocks and challenges to your system.

And then you can really push on to make progress...

39). Family and Your Retirement
As the years go by, when the kids grow up and leave (if you're lucky!), you will, inevitably, start thinking about retirement and the great value having a good number of years to enjoy the autumn of your lives and your family around you...

40). Writing for Success - Get That Article Written!
Article writing has become an internet explosion as marketers work out new ways to build traffic to their sites. And it isn't that hard to get started...

41). Managing Your Boss - Taking the Initiaitve
Building relationships is vital in business. When you are employed and have a boss it's even more critical, because you have an incentive to get the best from your boss - and the onus is on you.

For bosses, try on this as a set of expectations your people have from you...

42). 5 Questions Great Managers Ask (and they aren't hard!)
Remember the Pareto Principle. Aka the 80:20 rule. Well, here's something much, much easier! Answer these questions every day. Consider your responses

43). Feedback is a Gift
Feedback is a gift – when done properly. The very word strikes fear into the hearts of millions of workers every day, yet it need not be that way...

44). Competency Based Interviews - 6 Steps to Success!
More and more organisations are using a competency based framework for interviewing. Here are 6 steps to help you make the best impression - and get

45). Top Ten Ways to Motivate Your Employees As You Go
Motivation is different things to different people. It is not need to be a 'thing' that you need to actively do. It's about a culture in the workplace - and here are ten ways you can do it without expensive pseudo team-building activities...

46). Top Ten Tips for Outstanding Customer Service
Keeping customer service focus simple is the key to enabling all of your people in the front line. Delivering the following Top Ten Tips for Customer Service well, will make sure your people make the very best of their customer relationships.

47). Management Development - Micromanagement Works!
Ever been told not to micromanage your people? Because it irritates them and is a waste of your time, their time and leads to bad habits? Well it's all true. If you micromanage your people in all that they do, it will drive you and them nuts. But there is a way...

48). Take Your Time - Make Time
Of all the topics that are raised in arenas where management are discussed, Time Management is one of the most frequent, Here's some great thoughts on why - and how you can find great solutions to the issues raised.

49). Making it Happen
How frustrating is it when things progress slowly?

When you end up coming back to people and they haven't got on with things like you expected.

And sometimes it seems to be the same people who you have this problem with.

Read on for what happens next...

50). Hey - Just Do It
There can be many frustrations in business and more especially in management.

In this little article, we'll explore more about JDI and how this weekend, it made a magnificent difference to a small town on the Scottish/English borders

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