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
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.
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.
What Kind of Confident Do You Want To Be?
Do you wish you were more confident? You can be – it simply takes awareness and practice. So how about you pick which *kind* of confident you plan to be?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
The Secret Sauce to Speaker Confidence*
Presentations are tricky and there’s no magic pill. Storms are inevitable. Get comfortable with failure: the process is part of the process. Embrace it!
Divergent Thinking Helps Us Be More Creative at Work
Give a team space to think imaginatively and they’ll be stronger, braver, more creative and more resilient.
Four Ways to Control Your Nerves
Four simple tips to get you out of your head and back in your body before you give any presentation.
Three Tips For Presentation Nerves
Three great habits to help you take control of your presentations nerves.
Three Easy Steps to Resilience via Open Water
Three easy steps to greater resilience that might just become your favourite habits.
Positivity in a VUCA World
Since V.U.C.A. represents what we need to manage in our businesses or our lives, I created a new V.U.C.A. with definitions that make me react positively (or in improv terms, cause me to “Yes, And!”) from the outset.