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Welcome to the part of the year where time speeds up and the wheels fall off! Every year around this time, the end of the year starts to race towards us as the coming year arrives on the horizon. Life can become pressurized and overwhelming. The 4th quarter has always been an interesting time to navigate, and…
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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking about some of the keys to our own self-management. Last week, I wrote about one of the central premises of stress awareness and self-management – that of our ability to control what we focus on. I also noted that self-management will always trump leadership – that before…
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One of the most stressful things that we can do is focus solely on what goes on in the world around us. When we focus on what happens around us – the physical reality, circumstances and the things that are happening TO us – we feel out of control and our stress levels rise. One…
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Many of us are experiencing for the first time in our lifetimes the effects of prolonged uncertainty, change, and “operating conditions” that are continuously out of our control and difficult, if not impossible to plan for. Whilst this global pandemic started as one of physical health, it has become one that has tested our mental…
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All of us are constantly trying to balance our needs. When we are out of balance, our behaviours, responses, and decisions are all governed by trying to get back into some sense of balance. With any luck, we find and choose healthy ways to rebalance ourselves; but balance we must, even if we have to…
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When I first started translating the Crew Resource Management skills that flight crews use into other business teams, I thought I was sharing strictly communication skills. I very quickly realised that you can’t address human communication without coming smack bang up against culture, and that together, communication and culture are the grease that allow the…
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As this current Global Pandemic chapter continues to stretch out, the conversations around us ebb and morph. We are all being challenged on deeply personal levels to form opinions that affect our here and now as well as our future, at the same time as trying to keep a handle on the operation of our…
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If there was only one thing that decided whether you could find peace, synergy and forward movement within your family, your team at work, your community, and your country – would you want to know what it was? If there was only one thing that influenced every decision you made and action you took, that…
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There is a phenomenon responsible for many aircraft accidents over the decades known as Visual Illusion. It’s long been recognised that visual illusions can disorientate pilots or give rise to them not recognising their proximity to the ground, and it’s therefore a subject well covered in our training and guarded against by the consistent cross-checking of…
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Imagine living in a world where you are appreciated for the unique strengths you bring to the table. Where you are an invaluable piece of the puzzle in every area of your life, and where not only are your strengths fully utilised, but you are replenished by the joy you get from activating and engaging…
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