'General' Category
Strengths in Flow
Imagine yourself at your best, when you are in the zone or in “flow” and everything seems to be going really well. Concentration may be so intense that self-consciousness may no longer be a factor and time may lose all sense of meaning. In this heightened state of awareness, you are also probably tapping into [...]
7 Ways to Build an Energising Workplace in 2010
Help people find out more about their unique qualities and talents (i.e., their “X-factor”) by raising awareness of their strengths. Use a well established tool like ©Strengthscope (www.strengthscope.com) that provides them with feedback from multiple raters rather than simply their own perspective. This self-awareness should provide the basis of a focused and relevant learning plan [...]
Maintaining Strong Social Networks
During difficult and uncertain times, strong social networks help us maintain an optimistic, upbeat outlook and ‘bounce back’ from adverse, difficult experiences at work and life. Below are several tips to help you build and maintain strong relations at work and outside.
Try to remain positive and optimistic, even in the face of adversity. Try to [...]
Building a Culture of Confidence and Success
Confidence is at the very heart of effective performance. The media continuously bombards us with very public examples of individuals and teams in the performing arts and professional sports arena buckling under pressure from crises of confidence when strong confidence is call for. For me, people like Susan Boyle and the England rugby squad spring [...]
Strengths HR Vital….Now We Need to Act
In Spring/Summer 2009, Titan Talent undertook a survey on the views of HR and talent leaders into the importance HR assigns to optimise employees’ strengths and talents.
Participants included Saatchi and Saatchi, Abbott Labs, Mothercare and Thomson Reuters. Respondents spanned multiple sectors including Finance, Media, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Public, Telecommunications and Engineering.
We asked a total of 25 [...]
Strengthening Your Confidence to Succeed
Confidence is at the heart of effective performance. But when setbacks or failures occur at work, our confidence often buckles. Internal voices of self-doubt are amplified and tell us we are no good, which starts of a vicious negative spiral of low self-confidence, poor performance and critical feedback.
We have found that focusing on one’s [...]
Using Our Strengths in Balance
In our work, we increasingly hear organisations talking about helping their employees use their strengths more often to achieve a motivated, high performing workforce. This is encouraging and suggests a significant shift in mindset from a deficit or weakness based one to a more strengths-based one. However, the prescription is incomplete. Simply applying strengths more [...]
Response to “Picking over the Human Remains, a resource that business could let go”, Times, October 5 2009
I’m sure many human resources and training professionals were surprised and dissapointed to read this article in such a highly respected British newspaper. For those of you who didn’t read the article, the final paragraph will probably give you the gist of what the rest of the article contains. The journalist, Sathnam Sanghera, writes:
“Get rid [...]