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	<description>Inspiring and releasing the leader within you</description>
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		<title>Rhythm Of Life &#8211; How It Works For Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High energy people can work hard for up to 35 days (5 weeks) before they find themselves tired and not performing at their best. Others will start to fade a bit earlier. It is a matter of genes, family demands and mental and emotional capacity. No-one can keep on going forever or they will get sick, make poor decisions, put pressure on relationships, find they forget how to relax or can even become addicted to adrenalin. ]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Your Own Vision Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a highly visual age where communication and entertainment is done most powerfully through movies, television, billboards and via the internet. Therefore it makes sense for individuals (and organisations) to step up and present their vision in a visual format.]]></description>
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		<title>How Soft Skills (aka Leadership) Save Time And Make Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just recently, I was talking with a HR expert who works in Executive placement in larger companies. I asked him to estimate for me what it costs for a company to have the wrong person in a role and have to hire another person or to hire a person who is a bad fit for their team who only last 6 months?  He estimated that it costs at least $100,000 to the company in lost salary, momentum and reptutation (having 3 people in a role within 12 months).  Of course that figure could be far higher depending on whether the company was depending on this person to launch a major product or handle a major account.

This is an example of how the 'Soft Skills' are critical to a company or organisation's success.]]></description>
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		<title>For Effective Communication &#8211; HOW Is Often More Important Than WHAT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team Building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live with communication devices practically attached to our thumbs and yet in many ways communication has never been more difficult. Often the busyness and pressure of life can cause us to assume we are communicating if we send off a quick email or text. An unfortunate reality of 21st Century life is that it is easy to send of a tweet or post something on FaceBook without thinking through the possible implications of what we have communicated in what is essentially a public forum. In anger or in haste it is easy to hide behind the relative safety of just clicking send.
Every professional organisation needs a communication policy. No organisation can function effectively without healthy open communication. Unfortunately, we cannot leave it to the common sense of individuals because, as is often said, the problem with common sense is that it is not that common.]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Leadership?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent surveys suggest that between 45 and 70% of people in leadership positions within Australian companies have not received adequate leadership training. Companies will invest significant dollars into skills training but often require staff with leadership potential and aspirations to get training at their own time and expense. And they wonder why they have trouble retaining skilled staff and building a healthy company culture. Many companies still do not understand 'what is leadership?']]></description>
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		<title>The Most Important Question To Ask (&amp; Answer) Every Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The BIG WHY]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone in an organisation needs to know the ‘BIG WHY’ in clear and easy to understand terms. This is especially true for anyone expected to give leadership direction but even the volunteer on reception who answers the phone and the casual who does a menial task for a couple of hours a week should know why their contribution is important.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Have That Difficult Leadership Conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few things more destructive to morale in a workplace as when there is a staff member causing havoc and no-one is willing to have that difficult conversation with them which would quickly fix things. Perhaps they are not performing well in teir role or they are causing all kinds of relationship issues with inappropriate comments or behaviour, or (add your experience here.....)

For me, these are defining leadership moments!]]></description>
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		<title>Why Critical People Do Not Make Good Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his classic book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie helped us understand that people respond far better to encouragement than they do to criticism. He showed that you never grow a positive relationship by criticizing people.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Lead and Motivate Volunteers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am saddened when I hear leaders of organisations complain about their volunteers, how they wish they had more money to pay people so they can get good staff. I venture to say leaders with this attitude would have similar problems motivating paid staff.

Motivation does not come with salary. Motivation comes from being inspired to be part of making a difference. Apparently Steve Jobs was lured back to Apple from his role as CEO of Pepsi Co by the challenge, "Are you going stay and make sugar water or do you want to come and change the world?"]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Momentum to Any Organisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[momentum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without momentum everything, even small problems become magnified. like a stationary train can be prevented from rolling forward by placing a 20 cent coin on the track against a wheel. With momentum everything is so much easier, even larger problems can be solved relatively easily. E.g. the same train moving at 100 Km/h would not be stopped if a brick wall was built across the track.]]></description>
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