Monthly Archive for February, 2010

Flip A Weakness Into A Strength with 4 Simple Steps

Published on 24/02/2010 in Career Development, Coaching, Customer Service, Graduate Development, Leadership, Mindset and Sales & Selling. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

In last weeks blog I posted a short video clip.  Remember the mouse and cheese?

If you didn’t see it be sure to watch it because its less than 1 minute and 30 seconds and it’s what I’m talking about in this post.

That blog post was about turning a weakness into a strength or a problem/shortcoming to a positive.  I challenged you to give it a go and also promised I’d share one of mine.

So, here it is.  Quite some time ago I missed out on a speaking gig that I was in the running for.  And to stick with the mouse analogy this gig was my Havarti (my favourite cheese).  Man, let me tell you, I could smell it and taste it.  I really, really wanted this gig and my name was all over it.

BUT, I didn’t get it and I was shattered to say the least.

What's your cheese (weakness)?

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A weakness becomes a strength in <1min & 30 sec

Published on 16/02/2010 in Career Development, Goal Setting & Achievement and Mindset. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Whilst this is a clever little advertisement it’s also a great analogy.  Check it out… and bear with it, the middle isn’t as tragic as it first appears.

So, consider for a minute a weakness/problem/shortcoming (like the cheese) you have in your career, business, relationships or life and see if there isn’t something about it that you can turn to a positive or make a strength.

Of course there’s no use just considering and seeing it.  You have to do something…

C’mon do it!

Just pick one small thing and do it today.  And then share it with us.

I’ll do mine as well and share it in my next blog.

Success and nothing less,

Dave Lourdes

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The Top 5 Traits of Toxic Teams

Published on 09/02/2010 in Career Development, Coaching, Communication, Culture, Graduate Development, Leadership and Teams. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

At one time or another we’ve all worked in one; a Toxic Team!  You know what I’m talking about don’t you?  One of those teams where the week feels like this:

MOANday,
TEARSday,
WASTEday,
THIRSTday,
FIGHTday.

Seriously though, there are some common traits that are alive and well to some degree in all Toxic Teams and the reason I’m giving them to you is because sometimes you’re in a Toxic Team and you don’t even know it!  As human beings we are very good at adapting to our environment so what this means is, we can sometimes not only endure highly stressful or demoralising situations BUT actually trick ourselves into thinking what’s happening is ‘okay’ or ‘normal’.

So here are The Top 5 traits of Toxic Teams you need to know about:

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