From the monthly archives:
Today is a guest post by Hermann du Plessis:
I must have read about 50 books and 200 articles on leadership to this day. I have attended more than 20 conferences and workshops on leadership. I have been coached, trained and counselled on leadership. It just seems like there is never an end [...]
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It was a certain Jesus of Nazareth who said, “it is more blessed to give than receive”. Notice that he didn’t say that receiving is bad or wrong or unimportant. He was simply saying that it was less ‘blessed’ than that of giving.
In fact, I am convinced that we need to be focussed on both [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, Wednesday’s are going to have a focus on the Gallup StrengthsFinder tool. Each Wednesday we’ll take one persons top five themes and discuss them, offering tips and insights.
Today we’re discussing Jennie Kohl Austin’s themes which are:
Ideation
People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find [...]
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Today I simply want to share something by the speaker, consultant and author Jon Gordon. I found it really helpful and thought provoking.
A young man asked me the other day if I had one piece of advice to give him, as he graduates college, what it would be. I told him to be humble and [...]
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Starting tomorrow (27th May) I’m launching a new weekly feature. Every Wednesday is going to be what I’m calling “Strengths Day”. This will be focussed specifically around the Gallup StrengthsFinder tool.
Each Wednesday I will take one persons top five signature themes and go through them with the person on the Awaken site. I’ll share tips [...]
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Love unexpressed is a pretty useless thing. Gratitude unexpressed is as good as meaningless.
Not only are words without actions not enough, thoughts without words are largely pointless.
Who are the people around you who you love, appreciate, and are genuinely grateful for? Do they know? When did you last tell them? What was the last thing [...]
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I went through the first thirty years of my life without experiencing death. I saw death from a distance of course. But no one I knew closely died. We never let my brother live it down when, during a speech at his 21st birthday, he expressed his gratitude for have a ‘full set’ of grandparents!
But [...]
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Today I would like to introduce the third of the guest columnists who are going to be writing an article for Awaken each month.
After connecting with Alex McManus and the International Mentoring Network (IMN) several years ago, Dale ended up being trained by the late Chip Anderson (author of StregthsQuest) in the Gallup organisations StrengthsFinder [...]
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When are you at your most creative? And, more relevantly, how do you find that place, or zone, when you’re at your most creative?
Sadly, I don’t have a couple of bullet points that’ll tell you how. You have to find it.
But how do you even go about trying to find it? Here’s how it happened [...]
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It’s a couple of weeks since I introduced two of the three guest columnists who are going to be writing a monthly piece for Awaken. If you missed those, you can find out more about Hermann Du Plessis and Russ Murphy by clicking on the links. I’ll be introducing Dale Swinburne very soon too.
The big [...]
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