ARTICLES

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7 Ways to Feel Better About Your Job

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How To Make Hard Decisions More Easily

Have you got a hard choice to make? Whether it's at work, or at home, having tricky choices ahead weighs on you, even...

How to Shape A Fulfilling Career

If you crave meaningful work, it might not happen by accident. Here's how to shape a fulfilling career, by asking 5...

How I Developed The Consultants of Choice Programme  (+ graphs)

The Consultants of Choice Foundation Programme development journey - in a series of graphs and pictures.

After banging...

How to Do Scary Things

Being a person is pretty scary, to be honest. If you're a mildly anxious human like me, you might face a frequent war...

Learn From Your Mistakes: Make the Most of Failure

Everybody makes mistakes, but only some people know how to use them to get better. If you've made a mistake this week,...

Boundaries 101: Your guide to personal and professional peace

  • Why boundaries are a gift
  • How to set boundaries in 5 easy steps

Boundaries are a gift

"If you face the...

How to Use Value Based Pricing In Your Consulting Business

Arguably the most difficult part of developing your consulting offer is deciding what to charge.

Value-based pricing...

The 8 Most Important Self Employment Skills

Not everyone is cut out for self-employment. Many people are best served in the safety and security of a traditional...

The Risks of Self Employment (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.)

Self-employment is an alluring prospect. It’s a chance to live your life on your own terms, to achieve more fulfilment...

What to Do Before You Quit Your Job to Start a Business

What should you do before you leave your job to start your own consulting business? What boxes do you need to tick, and...

Stop Being Nice: 7 reasons why your niceness is dangerous

I have a confession to make: I'm suspicious of nice people.

I've always felt ashamed of it, but niceness triggers...

Master The World’s Most Valuable Skill

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WTF, Netflix? Teenage sex and entertainment

Child Pornography for the Masses

At the time of writing, the Number 1 movie on NZ Netflix is Do Revenge. The plot...

Get Your Meetings Under Control: 6 questions to help you banish back-to-backs

Everyone is having too many meetings. In many teams, people click from one conversation to another, becoming...

Time Management for Consultants - (and everyone else!)

We're living in a "time is money" world where we're expected to optimise every single second of our lives. But I call...

10 Ways to Take Charge Of Your Life

There’s no way of knowing what’s coming next in your life - after the last few years, nothing would be a surprise!

But...

How to Serve the Room: Ask Better Questions for Leadership Success

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Why Women Are So Bloody Exhausted Right Now

This week, I had a great question from a Wednesday Wisdom reader. J wrote:

"I'd like to ask for advice - especially as...