Push vs Pull Influencing — from an EQ point of view there is only one long-term winner 🥇 Why anything sustainable can only really rely on Pull-style Influencing Clearly my new gym routine is working 😉 Going into 2025 I decided this was the year I would stop Pushing so much ❌ No, I’m not talking about opening doors […]
If you want to achieve anything in life: It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being consistent; here’s how you do it A bin for leaves and a toothbrush walk into a bar…. What the hell have dental hygiene and leaf collection got in common? 😀🍃 Both reminded me of the secret of success; something we all know […]
Why you should share your goals more widely — its good for IQ, EQ and FQ Someday I’ll learn how to order numbers 😂 As a strategist and emotional intelligence expert, I hate resolutions but I am a big fan of goals 🥅. In fact I regularly tell clients that we won’t start working with them until we have clarity […]
Damn you fruit, don’t fall out! Friendships are like this bowl of fruit 🍐🍊🍏; we all know that fruit are good for us but it’s easy to let things slip, or to get distracted by junk food 🍟, and the bowl becomes empty pretty quickly unless you refill it* Ok, so the analogy might need some work 🤔, but […]
I feel like my whiteboard has been redacted A lot can happen in 6 months. You can go from joy to misery. You can go from misery to joy. You can go from rich to poor. You can go from poor to rich. And so on… However, whilst most of these changes don’t just happen by chance; the positive ones at least […]
Now that’s what I call a birthday card! Here’s a question for you: Would you sign a card for someone you don’t know (or only minimally know)? This is a quandary I was faced with 20 years ago. It was my first day in a new company and I was sat at my desk trying to work out […]
This is not my wardrobe This is a reprint of a classic blog I wrote in December 2019 when I first started Shiageto Consulting Ever found yourself spending way longer than you should deliberating what you should wear to work? Something that should take a matter of moments ends up filling 10 mins or more and […]
If you want to make a lasting impression it’s all about being memorable ; here’s some tips on how to do that Curtains ready at the ballet – all is not quite as it seems This week I’ve referenced the great Maya Angelou a lot, in particular her fabulous quote: “People will forget what you said, people will forget […]
Effectiveness: It’s a lot to do with change; so does change make you 😊 or 😔? This isn’t a blog about coins This is a reprint of a classic blog I wrote in December 2019 when I first started Shiageto Consulting In my previous blogs I began to explore a bit more about personal, team and business effectiveness. […]
Look at that face *This is a reprint of a classic blog I wrote in November 2019, not long after I’d started my first start-up A/ One bite at a time of course… I love this ridiculous joke (not just because it entertains my nephews) but because underneath it lies the simplest of truths; sometimes if we only […]
