The Way People Feel Around You IS Your Strategy

I ask this question from every stage I stand on, all over the world. Think about your best boss, your favourite teacher, your most beloved relative. Really think about them. Picture their face. Remember how you felt in their presence. What did they all have in common? Every single time, without fail, in every country…

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Emotional Intelligence: The Leadership & Sales Superpower You Can’t Ignore

What if I told you the secret to winning in leadership and sales isn’t about being the smartest or the most persuasive? It’s about how well you know yourself, manager yourself and manage relationships.  That’s emotional intelligence (EQ), and it’s the superpower that separates good leaders and salespeople from extraordinary ones. Let’s break it down and explore how you…

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Leading Engagement

So many of my clients are telling me that one of their key issues is engaging their teams in the current hybrid environment. As a leader, (or parent!), our job is to: And why does focusing on joy at work matter in the corporate world? Because it increases sales 37%. It increases productivity 31%, lowers…

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Feelings in Business

The Power of Joy and Feelings in Business

The Power of Joy and Feelings in Business – especially right now. ‘Life is not just about feeling good. It’s about being good at feeling.’ Why? Because everything we do in life is based directly or indirectly on feelings – whether we are conscious of them or not. Great wisdom comes from being conscious of…

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The New Business Model – H2H

Recently, Brigham Young University released the results of a study on social isolation. If you are socially isolated (ie lonely or don’t feel you have friends you can call on) the risk of death goes up 32%! That is one reason H2H is becoming so important in business. Most of us spend most of our…

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How you can change personality traits + mindsets with Amanda’s help!

Our personality traits show up through our mindsets. We are not our mindsets but our mindsets influence everything in our lives! And our thinking determines our mindsets. Both of which can be changed. Personality traits ‘appear’ through our actions, attitudes and behaviours. At the base of all three of those is our thinking. So our…

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Choose to be Enthusiastic!

I believe excitement ‘jumps’! If someone is excited, enthusiastic and passionate about something, they ‘infect’ those around them with the virus! Of course, some people are more susceptible to the enthusiasm virus. Why choose to be someone, or hang around anyone, who dampens enthusiasm: a wet blanket who puts out the fire of life? Make…

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The Magic of Mindfulness

Mindfulness. It’s a buzz word right now. Businesses are more conscious of the bottom line results of being more mindful and teaching their people to do so. CEOs are being coached to be more mindful to improve their leadership skills. Students are being taught to be more mindful to perform better in tests – everyone is…

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21 Habits of Successful Leaders

Through my own experiences as a motivational keynote speaker on Leadership, along with my research and observations I have a come up with 21 habits that I believe successful leaders live by. They consistently feel good about themselves and believe in their own abilities. They help others to feel good about themselves and help others…

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