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Need an energy boost? Check your batteries

The Management Centre

Social life: are you spending time when you are not working doing the things you enjoy, or with the people you really like to be with? Personal development: are you satisfied with how much you are learning and being stretched? Health: are you getting enough exercise and sleep, how is your diet? What’s next?

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

In the expectation that we will soon be competing with machines, it seems worthwhile to train our “soft skill muscles.” – Anna Julius Even though we know the importance of this skillset, many people don’t know how to develop or improve their soft skills. Pause several times during the day and listen to your feelings and needs.

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

companies spend over $70 billion annually on training, and an average of $1,459 per salesperson — almost 20 percent more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing.

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How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits

Harvard Business

To develop an effective habit, consider where and when you want this pattern to happen. Logging apps make it easy to record information like what you’ve eaten, when and how you’ve exercised, or when you’ve completed work tasks. Sometimes we need to develop habits that are really boring. John Coleman.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Do you need to provide training? Go through the same training. And how do you serve as a good role model?

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Mindfulness in the midst of a busy day: becoming aware of first responses

Brimstone Consulting

These “first responses” are not something we’ve been trained to notice, and they run on automatic in the background pretty much all the time we are conscious. That’s the whole exercise. By the time we’re usually aware, we’ve already done or said something that, on examination, we didn’t ever choose consciously to do.

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To Control Your Life, Control What You Pay Attention To

Harvard Business

Today, in a world where so many experiences are blended together — where we can work from home (or a train or a plane or a beach), watch our kids on a nanny-cam from work, and distraction is always just a thumb-swipe away —has that ever been more true? Attention Management. It’s more than just exercising focus.