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  • All Change Please
    Some positive ideas for dealing with change that seems to have been imposed on you without consultation
  • Assertiveness - Just how nice are you?
    This quiz will help you define whether you really are too nice for your own good.
  • Assertiveness Skills - The Art of Saying No
    This document outlines a practical approach Saying No. Without actually using the word you can develop the ability to resist or sidestep being manovered into doing something you really don't want to do.
  • Assertiveness vs Aggression
    When feelings are bottled up assertiveness can spill over into aggression, leaving the other person feeling attacked rather than reasoned with.
  • Building Good Self Esteem
    Without a firm foundation of your own view of self worth, your self-esteem can be knocked back quite quickly and easily. This article examines ways of building a good self image and raising self-esteem.
  • Coaching and Mentoring (using one)
    This article looks at finding and developing a useful relationship with a Coach or Mentor.
  • Communication Skills Training - Effective Communication
    Communication Key Skills, this document outlines some of the pitfalls and bear traps that litter our everyday Business Communication Issues. Together with some useful approaches to Effective Communication.
  • Dealing with Change and Change Management
    This is a helpful document for those of you Dealing With Change issues at home or in your work life. It tries to help you think about Change Management as something you can work with rather than be the victim of
  • Equality and Diversity
    A look at Impact Factory's approach equality and diversity issues. Our focus is on examining people's perspectives on difference, diversity, change management and the attitudes and feelings which are sometimes difficult for people around equal opportunities work.
  • How Coaching and Mentoring Works: The Benefits of Using a Coach or mentor
    Understanding how Coaching and Mentoring works, benefits of using a Coach or Mentor, Hints and Tips on using one and being one.
  • How not to be a Loser Magnet
    Jo Ellen Grzyb explores her own past as a 'loser magnet' with men and shares how she became less nice, less magnetised and much happier.
  • Influencing Skills - How To Influence People
    Influencing Others is a skill, an art without which working in todays professional workplace is very difficult. This article introduces ideas about what can be done to make yourself a more Effective Influencer.
  • Job Interview Skills - Going for a Job
    Hints and Interview Tips on CVs, Job Interview Questions, Interview Technique and Interview Advice.
  • Leadership and Conflict
    Identifying and handling conflict early on is a key leadership skill that avoids bigger difficulties further down the line.
  • Leadership Development - Leadership Styles and Training
    What makes a good leader? Can you define specific leadership qualities? Or perhaps leaders are born, and not made? Our latest document takes a look at this minefield and asks 'How do you become a good leader?'
  • Making Personal Development Personal
    A look at how to make Personal Development really about you, rather than someone elses idea of how you should develop.
  • Motivation - Going for It!
    Follow your dream - so what are your dreams? And what is preventing you from realising them? Some ideas from Impact Factory on dreaming with feet still on the ground.
  • Overt and Covert Influencing
    Influence can be direct and obvious, but often it is more subtle and invisible. This article examines the difference between Covert and Overt Influencing.
  • People Development vs Training - Its Not Training!
    Find out what makes professional personal development work at so different from run of the mill 'sheep dip' training.
  • Personal impact - Making the Impact You Choose
    This document will help you to be more aware of how you impact on others and offers ideas for choosing what you want that impact to be.
  • Presentation Skills Training and Coaching Tips
    How to present well - A summery of presentation skills training courses for company managers, the use of power point, public speaking and corporate conferences, coaching and design.
  • Procrastination? - Do it Now
    'Don't put off until tomorrow...'. Somehow always turns into 'Don't do today (or even tomorrow) that which you could possibly put off till forever'. And if we have such busy lives (as we increasingly seem to have), we don't really have time to procrastinate, do we?
  • Professional Personal Development - What is it?
    If employees are motivated, confident, communicating well and resolving differences; if they are being acknowledged and appreciated, then stress is reduced; people are more efficient and effective. This article outlines the argument for encouraging and developing these skills within organisations, the profound affect on employees' performance and overall well-being, and a corresponding increase in the bottom line.
  • Public Speaking - The Art of Speech Making
    How do you speak naturally while all those people are watching you? This document covers hints and tips on public speaking, dealing with anxiety, public speaking skills and techniques and public speaking training.
  • Surefire Ways To Stop Procrastinating
    Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow or the next day or the day after that?
  • Team Building Events and Exercises
    A look at Team Building and what it is exactly! There are so many ways to go about bringing a group of people together. Each team is individual and it's not as simple as it seems to make them work more effectively together. There are a number of factors up for discussion...
  • The Importance of Executive Coaching
    The importance of executive coaching, why executive coaching services are expanding, how best to use an executive coach.
  • The Quick Fix - Interpersonal Skills Training
    Why you should be wary of anything that offers a quick solution to people skills issues by putting everyone through a sheep dip programme. It makes the case for slower, but more effective personal development.
  • What Makes a Good Performance Appraisal?
    This document outlines our thinking about what a good performance appraisal and performance management process should be.
  • What Sort of Training is Most Effective?
    A cogent argument for good development programmes. It looks at addressing the needs of the individual and the groups being trained as well as the business needs.
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