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Traditional leadership training doesn’t work but the LMI approach does
Whilst facilitating an Effective Personal Productivity programme, I was asked by the participant why we refer repeatedly to the importance of spaced repetition, a central pillar of all LMI development programmes. The answer to many in this modern digital age is not that obvious. To illustrate the point of just how critical to long-term learning…
Your Best Year Ever
I hope you are off to your Best Year EVER! One of my favorite quotes from Paul J Meyer is, “You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting. You are on the up escalator, or the down escalator!” There is no standing still. You are either growing and developing, or you are shrinking and deteriorating. I…
Goal Setting – Planning for Success
Success is deeply a personal thing. You may think you know exactly what you want to work towards, when in reality it’s someone else’s dream not yours. When it comes to setting goals and achieving them, you need to start thinking about what success means to you, not your peers, family or society. What will…
How LMI Programmes can help with workplace stress
People often ask me why, as a mental health trainer, I am so passionate about productivity and what is the connection between the two. There are a number of different reasons, but the easiest to explain is the link between productivity in the workplace and positive mental health. The link between Stress and Mental Illness…
Why Leadership for Women?
In this 20 minute conversation, Nick Howes will be asking just this question to Sue Benoke of LMI UK. Sue was initially sceptical when LMI, one of the world’s oldest and most successful leadership development organisations, announced it’s new ‘Leadership for Women’ programme. Why should be there be such a programme that is specifically tailored…
Total leader Webinar
SMART Goal Setting
In this the 21st Century most people fundamentally know that the basis for success is intricically linked to Goal Setting. LMI’s definition of SUCCESS takes it a step further by stating that success is “The progressive realisation of worthwhile predetermined personal goals”. Yet again, the key link relates to ‘Goals’. Now if this is acknowledged…
Use Your Time Wisely
Do you remember being told as a child to “Use your time wisely?” followed by “Time is money”, and when all else failed, “Stop wasting your time!” By themselves none of those statements had the long-term intended effect because as children we had “all the time in the world”. Furthermore, being told to STOP anything…
Feels like progress
There is something really important about the way that we humans are wired that we can use massively to our advantage if we understand it. We are happier and therefore perform better when it feels like we’re making progress. The idea of having key goals that you are working towards in and outside of work is…