“Your ability to communicate with others will account for fully 85% of your success in your business and in your life.” Brian Tracy Imagine being paid well to travel the world and share your message with people that want to hear you speak? If something in that question resonates, this post might be helpful. Today, … Read more
This video is about paying attention in the process of learning, and trusting the process. The Art of Learning: Attention without Judgement. If I am judging everything, I am judging from today’s level of mastery… and blocking my progress. It is so difficult to remember that I don’t see more than what I am capable … Read more
I have a lasting interest in how people make good decisions, especially when many people are involved, and many people are affected by the decisions. Currently reading the book “Crucial Conversations“. Towards the end of the book, there is a section on moving from a dialogue towards concrete actions. The authors say that there are … Read more
This week’s video comes from Champery in Switzerland where I have been part of the faculty for a leadership program for the Avanade company. One of the other faculty is a Leadership Coach called Kris Girrell. He shared a simple 4 part structure for a Coaching Conversation. The 4 Coaching Questions What’s Up? What’s So? … Read more
Most people who get paid have a job. A job is where someone pays you to do something that they don’t want to do. A career is where someone pays you because you are awesome at something valuable. In order to build a career you need a couple of things: Mastery – A Rare and … Read more
NPR have a wonderful speech database with over 350 great commencement speeches on their resource The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever What are the Most Common Words? Excluding prepositions and other super-common words, the most frequent words appearing in this database of Great Commencement Speeches were: Life Make People World Yourself Make Success Generation Define Human … Read more
This list was put together by my father, Terry Neill, in the 1980’s as a reminder for himself and those around him about the nature of good leadership, and the easy pitfalls of Non-Leadership. He led businesses through good times and through tough times and I can see the positive impact he has had on … Read more
“If you have a dream and you know all the tasks required to achieve the dream, you don’t have a dream… you have a task. A dream is something you don’t yet know how you will be able to accomplish” Alden Mills Alden Mills spent several years as a Navy Seal commander, before launching the … Read more
What does it mean to be someone worthy of trust? What does it mean to be someone who is capable of making and keeping promises? This video shares a model from Luis Soares Costa about Trustworthiness. 4 aspects of being Trustworthy Character (Being) Integrity Intent Competence (Doing) Skills Results The following post is reshared from … Read more
This week I have been teaching at the Mid Atlantic Business School on the island of Santa Cruz de la Palma. This video shares a lesson that many participants took from the day: “Listen with Your Eyes“. Hearing is a sense that differs from all our other senses, because it has a buffer. I am … Read more