Emotionally Intelligent Leaders
Emotionally Intelligent Leaders and what I believe makes a good leader. Part of a much longer interview with Queen Mary University.
Understand your strengths and flourish at work
Good leaders are aware of and understand their strengths and harness them in order to fulfil their potential and enjoy their work more.
How experimenting with building up your tolerance for dealing with frustrating situations will increase your resilience
A question I am asked on a regular basis: “How do I make myself more resilient and confident?”
5 ways to improve your wellbeing
In this article I summarise five areas that you can start working on to improve your wellbeing and build your resilience.
Five things to be aware of when leading virtual teams
This year, many teams who were used to regularly working and meeting in an office environment have been forced to adapt to remote working. In many cases, this happened almost overnight without much warning and without much recognition of the required infrastructure, the different home set ups of individual team members, and little (if any) …
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Unleashing creativity through mindfulness
Mindfulness has come into its own this last year. If the majority of your working day is spent in front of a computer screen, on endless calls and with a never-ending task list, you are probably finding it difficult to find the space to come up with more creative solutions to your problems. Even if …
Promoting mental health during a global pandemic
‘Mental Health for all: Greater Investment – Greater Access’, this year, World Mental Health Day takes place on 10th October and this is the theme. For much of 2020, as a result of the global pandemic, many more people have been experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety, financial stress and pressure, depression, poor family …
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How will you keep active this winter?
As someone who grew up in a country where warm and sunny days were the norm, moving to London and enduring my first winter here was a bit of shock to the system. At the end of that winter, I remember muttering “never again!”. Although to be fair to my younger self, because I thought …
Understanding your relationship with money webinar
https://www.mandymurdoch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Video-how-to-achieve-financial-freedom-webinar-2020.mp4 Understanding your relationship with money and what is important to you is key to achieving financial freedom, I explain from a coaching psychology perspective why. In June 2020 CF Wealth Management invited me to present this webinar – the first in a series which CF Wealth Management is hosting around the topic of financial …
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Emotions: why is it important to be self-aware?
Why is it important to be aware of your emotions? Accurate self-awareness and the ability to manage and control your emotions are emotional intelligence skills that consistently emerge among the top predictors of leadership performance. It is worth spending some time becoming aware of the emotions that underpin your behaviours. Without this awareness, emotions will tend to …