Seven Reasons Why You Need Fun at Work

“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” Simon Sinek

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Confidence Isn’t Clear-Cut

Confidence is the art of being comfortable with uncertainty. Sounds oxymoronic, right? Confidence is acting strong and making a choice, surely.

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Confidence and Failure: Two Sides of the Same Coin

By the same token, failure can often seem to turn up more often the more confident you feel. That’s because failure is often a by-product of your increased risk-taking that confidence inevitably brings. FAFO, as they say on Twitter.

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How to Build Confidence And Be Less Nervous

So I’m asking myself, what’s brought about this change? And as I got into it, I realised that I wanted to formulate a path towards confidence for you, too, and make a list of tips and hints. Cue an appropriate challenge: to post a Confidence Trick per day on LinkedIn (Follow at www.linkedin.com/company/the-offer-bank/ . Search #TheOfferBankConfidenceTricks for all 30 posts.

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Scared of Public Speaking? “We’ve Got To Go Through It!”

When I'm coaching people to greater confidence when speaking in public or in groups, they always ask me how they can be 'fast-tracked'. "What's the secret?" they say. What they really mean is: "How do I get to achieve this immediately without any feeling of discomfort?" This scary, brain-frying headspace – known in psychological terms as 'conscious incompetence' – is there for a reason: so that you can be creative, learn your craft, practice a heap of strategies... and become satisfyingly resilient along the way.

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Seven Reasons Why Glastonbury Festival is a Year-Round Resilience Boost

Dancing and singing and group fun reduce stress hormone cortisol and release happy hormones: endorphins (painkiller) and dopamine (mood-booster) and oxytocin (‘love drug’). The more we create positive, habitual pathways and imprint a route to joy, the easier good habits become.

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Confidence and Control in Business via Improv

With luck (and not too much self-justification or defensiveness), the right balance of control and confidence means you'll swerve a debilitating mish-mash of controlling behaviour, bravado, bullsh*t and avoidance.

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26 Ways to Feel in Control on Zoom

You read 23 Ways To Feel In Control On Zoom – now here’s 26 more Zoom ‘light bulb’ moments. Hopefully they’ll support you to feel more confident and in control of your calls.

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Seven Steps to Great Presentations on Zoom and in the Room

Even high-pressure global Zoom calls can feel oddly cosy at times, I find, since they’re only a couple of clicks away and take place in your WFH office.

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Ageism is a Trap! Let’s Work Together Instead

Getting old is weird, especially from a work perspective. It strikes me that I won’t be listening to Vera Lynn in the Old Folks’ Home as I’d been ‘sold’ as the norm when I was a kid: I’ll be listening to my first-generation dance music heroes who are now all hitting their 50s and 60s.

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Seven Tips to Empower Women on Stage

Today, please, put yourself first. Take up space. Be difficult. Be loud. No-one’s going to do it for you. Stop trying to make everything work for everyone around you and just please yourself!

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23 Ways to Feel in Control on Zoom

Whether you’re on your first (clueless) or your zillionth (jaded) call this year, you’ll miss basics that give yourself and others a better experience.

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