Improve Personal Development Radio: Recent Episodes
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Insights and advice from the best wellbeing and personal development coaches and consultants in the UK and beyond!
Are you a people manager?
How do you deal with giving feedback to your team?
Giving positive feedback may be easy, but with people working remotely, even this can be overlooked.
Meanwhile, negative feedback may be a difficult conversation that people managers put off until the year-end appraisal. But this means that the employee does not get a chance to work on constructive feedback as soon as possible.
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Jill Maidment is an executive business coach and the founder of Natural Talent Bristol. She helps leaders and organisations to perform better, work 'on' the business rather than 'in' it, and build resilience.
Listen to Jill sharing her insights into giving effective feedback.
Find out more about Jill at https://www.natural-talent.com/ or search for her on social media.
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The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
Mindset coach Lesley Moule went from a high-powered and stressful job to an illness that turned her own body against itself.
Lesley had a sudden reaction to hair dye and then prolonged illness that was eventually diagnosed as Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) where some of the cells that are within our bodies overreact to perceived threats.
That meant she could only eat certain foods, was forced to stop using beauty products, and take other restrictive measures.
While treatments like anti-histamines gave some relief, along with changing dietary and other lifestyle changes, Lesley’s breakthrough also included hypnotherapy to retrain her mind that she is not at constant threat and help her relax and deal with stress.
Lesley is now a trained hypnotherapist herself, helping people shift their mindset from illness to health. She works with those with phobias, anxiety, addictions, and a whole range of other issues.
She shares with us how to get the most out of hypnotherapy and how it can help.
Find out more at instagram.com/lesleymoule
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Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
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The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
The elevator pitch is often hailed as an important part of promoting yourself or your brand, but is there a better way?
Yes, according to John Lees, career strategist, speaker, and author of many books including The Success Code: How to Stand Out and Get Noticed.
He says that may of us struggle with talking about ourselves with around 10% of people doing it quite naturally, 10% never doing it, and the other 80% need to learn a “quieter, more authentic, more natural style” of talking about themselves.
John says that the elevator pitch is “cheesy” and very “surface level” and unlikely to be remembered for very long, while speaking about a topic that you are passionate about presses people’s entertainment buttons which means people are more likely to remember it – and you!
In this Improve Radio quick listen, John shares some of his tips for talking about yourself that move away from awkward norms of self-promotion, including the elevator pitch.
Find out more about John at: https://johnleescareers.com/
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Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
Find out more at https://improveradio.com
The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
Making decisions is something we all do hundreds of times every day, but it can be a struggle, especially when a wrong decision could have a huge impact on your business, career, or life.
So how do you make better decisions?
Jill Maidment says that decision making is one of the key skills of effective leaders and managers and shares some techniques for making time and being in right headspace for making the best decisions.
Jill is an executive coach and the founder of Natural Talent Bristol. She helps leaders and organisations to perform better, work ‘on’ the business rather than ‘in’ it, and build resilience.
Find out more about Jill at https://www.natural-talent.com/ or search for her on social media.
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Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
Find out more at https://improveradio.com
The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
We all need money to help us achieve what we want in life but there are some limiting beliefs about money that may make you less productive, and if you’re running your own business, holding back growth.
Joseph James is a an international money mindset coach, business mentor and brand consultant based between London and Ibiza and he’s shared some valuable insights into how to charge for your services, why discounting may not be the best strategy, and how to break free from limiting beliefs about money – and your own self worth!
Find out more at: https://moneymindsetandstrategy.com/
Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
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The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
Chronic illness is often not visible and so it is more prolific in the workplace than you think.
Sarah Berthon is one of millions of people with chronic illness(es) - in her case Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, POTS Syndrome, ME, IBS and Chronic Migraine.
Sarah is a business and chronic illness mentor who, having struggled in the workplace despite rising to a senior level, worked out how to run a business in a way that was not detrimental to her health. She can help you do the same.
Sarah helps entrepreneurs, team leaders, and employees to find what works for them in managing chronic illness.
Find out more at https://www.excelagainsttheodds.co.uk/
Sarah's Facebook group for entreprenuers: http://www.facebook.com/groups/entrepreneursagainsttheodds
Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
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The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
Nora Szanto is a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner and a high-performance strategist for business leaders and professional athletes.
In this programme, she’s talking to Improve Radio’s Steve Randall to share her knowledge on how to develop the growth mindset, her expertise in the powerful technique of tapping, and how she wrote her book The Celestina Code, which she says can have a life-changing positive impact on your child, while they think that they are just reading a gripping story.
Find out more at: https://www.thecelestinacode.com/
Nora's website: https://noraszanto.com/
Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
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The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
How do you manage stress?
Sometimes stress can be a driver, pushing us to perform at our best, but all too often stress is the underlying cause of serious mental and physical wellbeing concerns.
Unmanaged and prolonged stress can lead to burnout, exhaustion, and physical health issues.
Jill Maidment is an executive business coach and the founder of Natural Talent Wales. She helps leaders and organisations to perform better, work 'on' the business rather than 'in' it, and build resilience.
Listen to Jill sharing her insights into stress management including techniques to improve sleep and stress levels.
Find out more about Jill at https://www.natural-talent.com/ or search for her on social media.
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Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
Find out more at https://improveradio.com
The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
How can you be happy in your life and in your work in just 4 minutes a day?
Vicki Morris is the Career Happiness Coach and creator of the InspiredWork™ Career Transformation System. She is also the author of the book Happy Habits: Energize Your Career and Life in 4 Minutes a Day.
Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
Find out more at https://improveradio.com
The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
With increasing numbers of home workers sitting at their dining room tables or on their beds to work, Alexander Technique teacher Helen Ball has created a simple new system called Desk-Life, to show how we can all prevent or reduce back and neck pain.
Helen now 41, suffered from acute back pain in her 20’s and 30’s but since she has been practicing and teaching The Alexander Technique, she no longer suffers and has been inspired to share this with others.
Desk-Life is a new video course for people to work at the best, at their desk. Six simple videos demonstrate how to sit, stand, rise from your chair, set up both a seated and standing workspace and take a break.
Too often we’re left thinking there is nothing we can do when we get back or neck pain; but my experience taught me that small changes can have a big effect. I have been receiving feedback from people across the world that Desk-Life is helping them and it is a real dream come true to have such an impact on people’s daily lives.”
For further information about Desk-Life please visit www.atyourbestmove.co.uk
Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
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The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
Burnout is described as a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress.
We’ve been talking to Anna Pinkerton, a leading UK expert in burnout prevention and trauma recovery, who shares her insights into identifying the risks, and doing what you can to recognise when you or someone you know might be heading towards burnout.
Find out more about Anna at: https://annapinkerton.com/
Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
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The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.
Trauma is often seen as resulting from a big event in your life, but everyday trauma can also be detrimental to wellbeing.
Gemma Margerison specialises in working with anyone who is at risk of - or has survived - trauma, personally or vicariously.
She explains how to identify signs of trauma and how building resilience should not only be an aid to recovery from trauma, but something to build up to manage unexpected trauma.
Gemma has also written a book called Connected: The 12 Ways of Wellbeing for a Holistically Healthy Life, bringing together the expertise and experience of 45 wellbeing professionals. It's available via lulu.com and barnesandnoble.com.
Find Gemma at https://www.gemmalouisecoaching.com/ or on social media.
Improve Personal Development Radio is produced by Communication Generation.
Find out more at https://improveradio.com
The producers rely on the contributions of third parties and do not necessarily endorse their views and techniques. Independent advice should always be sought.