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Bring emotion back to business.

10th October 2018

Change, Connection, Development, Feel Better, Growth, Inner World, Leadership, Team

You don’t often see or hear that. ‘Emotion’ and ‘business’ in the same sentence. Traditionally, we don’t talk about our feelings and emotions at work. We leave them at home and we just get on with it. All this emotional chat is incense burning, sandal wearing pink and fluffy BS and has no place in…

Giving up too easily? It’s just not cricket.

4th October 2018

Lou Banks

Development, Feel Better, Leadership, Mind-set, Team

This Summer I decided to sponsor a cricket team, partly because my Brother plays for them but mostly because, as the classic reggae song states, I don’t like cricket, I love it! I come from a family of cricket fans. Watching the cricket immediately makes me feel better. Sitting outside on a warm summers day…

Role modelling for real change

30th March 2017

Lou Banks

Change, Development, Growth, Leadership, Learning, Mind-set, Neuroscience, Self Awareness, Team

growth, Learning, self development

When my daughter Martha was little, like most pre-school kids, she was terrible at sharing. The tantrums at play dates were becoming a problem and I knew it was serious when we weren’t getting invited out as much as we used to. I needed my Mum mates. So for my sanity at least, things had…

The importance of connection in the workplace

29th April 2016

Lou Banks

Connection, Feel Better, Leadership, Learning, Mind-set, Self Awareness, Team

connection, social pain, stress, work

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family…or your work colleagues. Thrown together through luck and circumstance, we spend at least half of our lives working alongside people, we otherwise might not have met. Every workplace is a rich tapestry of individuals with different ideas, views and morals. So, like every dysfunctional…

How To Motivate Your Team

10th September 2015

Lou Banks

Change, Connection, Development, Growth, Leadership, Learning, Mind-set, Team

We regularly work with teams to support their development, as well as deliver learning around the subject of leadership. You will find a multitude of information around how to motivate and engage as a leader, and in our experience focusing on these 10 areas will do this pretty damn well! 1. Help them get what…

How to build your workplace relationship resilience

30th June 2015

Lou Banks

Boundaries, Change, Connection, Development, Growth, Leadership, Learning, Mind-set, Self Awareness, Team

Self Awareness

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‘Not getting along with people’ is consistently cited as a reason for work-related stress, and I would bet that at least 50% of every team, at one point in time, are working with at least one person that they find it difficult to be around. This could a line manager, a peer, a direct report,…

ABC – Always Be Closing?….We say Always Be Connecting! Why selling with a coaching approach gets results.

19th February 2015

Lou Banks

Connection, Development, Growth, Leadership, Learning, Mind-set, Self Awareness, Team

When coaching is mentioned people often think of ‘life coaching’, or scheduled one to one sessions in a private environment with action plans and follow up. This is the case for many coaching interventions, however we can address a variety of situations and interactions with a ‘coaching approach’. A conversation using a coaching approach involves…

10 Ways to be a Scary Leader

31st October 2014

Lou Banks

Change, Connection, Development, Inner World, Leadership, Self Awareness, Team

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1. Focus only on Roles, Responsibilities and Objectives Give no consideration to what else your team may need to stay motivated and feel supported. One sure way to generate disengagement and under-performance. 2. Don’t Manage Under-performance This is a brilliant way to negatively impact those in the team that are performing well. 3. Don’t Trust…

What we can learn from nature….

10th September 2012

Lou Banks

Change, Connection, Development, Feel Better, Leadership, Learning, Mind-set, Mindfulness, Self Awareness, Team

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Most birds that fly in V formation have a long journey and fly at extreme altitudes. In the current economic climate there are lots of metaphoric links that we can make to individuals, team and organisations and the long journeys they are travelling on, a

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Bring emotion back to business.

Giving up too easily? It’s just not cricket.

Role modelling for real change

How To Motivate Your Team

How to build your workplace relationship resilience

ABC – Always Be Closing?….We say Always Be Connecting! Why selling with a coaching approach gets results.

10 Ways to be a Scary Leader

What we can learn from nature….

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